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The future is bright for Ford owners in NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - On the eve of the Daytona 500, Ford team owners representing 10 Daytona 500 victories and five NASCAR championships addressed the racing media to share high expectations for the 2018 season and indulge in a few stories of their considerable time...

Penske says Ford will have a new car next season

It was the worst kept secret in NASCAR, but Roger Penske confirmed on Sunday that Ford Performance will have a new Cup Series body in 2019...

ThorSport Racing partners with Ford Performance

SANDUSKY, Ohio (January 22, 2018) - ThorSport Racing will partner with Ford Performance for the upcoming 2018 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series season and beyond. Racing into its 23rd year of competition, the team looks to add to its notable history with support from...

Norick switching to Ford?

I hear Lance Norick, currently driving NHL Dodge, will be switching back to Fords, without the NHL sponsorship and will go back to a one truck team for L&R Motorsports. Nowick will also be driving on the Winston West series next year and plans on competing in Japan...

Some interesting Manufacturer notes from Speedworld

A Ford has led 2.592 of the 4,850 laps raced this season (53.5 percent). Chevrolet has led 1.878 laps (38.7 percent) while Pontiac has led 380 laps (7.8 percent). All three manufacturers have posted at least one victory this season. Ford has seven victories while Chevrolet...

Common templates?

Heard that NASCAR is pulling back from the idea of common templates for the Winston Cup division in part because of strenuous arguments from Ford, Chevy and Pontiac factory types. We hope to have more on this soon.(StockCarRacing Mag/Tom Hintz)(6-5-98)...

Black boxes for NASCAR?

FORD'S Dan Davis, head of the company's world-wide racing operations, said he's willing to install special crash-analyzing black boxes on Winston Cup cars to try to make this racing safer, if NASCAR officials give him the go-ahead. Jarrett says that NASCAR should OK...

Ford leads all laps

A Ford led every lap of the TranSouth 400, the first time a manufacturer has done this since the fall of 1985 at the Holly Farms 400 in North Wilksboro(WRAL-WC Today Radio), check out the stats at Jayski's Stat Page.(3-24-98)...

The Rules Change

Beginning with Sunday's TranSouth 400 at Darlington (SC) Raceway, Fords will be required to use 55-inch wide rear spoilers on their new Tauruses and any leftover Thunderbirds remaining in their racing fleets. That's two inches narrower than the spoiler width of 57 ...

Ford could lose more spoiler height

Reports say the Ford Taurus will lose another half-inch or more from the height of its rear spoiler before the TranSouth Financial 400. After the Primestar 500 on Monday, NASCAR took five cars to take for a wind tunnel test. Results of NASCAR testing are never revealed...

No Fords

No Ford Thunderbirds made the WC race at the Rock for the first time since Ford returned to NASCAR in the late 1970's(2-22-98) (02-22-1998)...

Chad Little to run Thunderbird

Chad Little will run a Thunderbird in the Daytona 500 that Jeff Burton ran last year. He stated during practice that their team did not have time to get the Taurus ready. He will run a Taurus in the Bud Shootout Qualifying Race(ESPN Practice)(2-6-98)...

Ford testing

Taurus Testing Not Going as Well as Hoped. For the past few days Talladega Superspeedway is a site that that is as heavily guarded and top secret as many government operations. Specifics are not easy to come by, but things are not going as well as Ford and the teams...

Ford test speeds

Found out some very preliminary speeds at Ford's private test of the Taurus at Charlotte today: Dale Jarrett(88)-176.750mph; Jeff Burton(99)-176.298; Greg Sacks(98)-176.183; Brett Bodine(11)-176.068; Ricky Rudd(10)-176.010; Jimmy Spencer(23)-174-701; Michael Waltrip...

Ford named official truck of NASCAR

Ford and NASCAR signed a three-year agreement where Ford will be the official truck for all 12 NASCAR racing divisions. As part of the sponsorship, Ford will produce a limited number of 1998-model NASCAR special edition Ford F-150s.(NASCAR Online)(12-4-97)...

Preston Miller staying at Ford

"Preston Miller, who "resigned" as Ford's NASCAR program director three weeks ago, has agreed to keep the job, under the regime of new Ford Special Vehicle Operations chief Dan Davis. Miller will continue as an independent contractor under contract to Ford, Miller ...

Dan Davis in at Ford

"Ford Motor Company officials said that Dan Davis would be replacing Bruce Cambern as head of the company's worldwide racing operations. Cambern, who took the job last fall, has been under fire for several months."(JournalNow)(11-1-97)...

Some Notes

Ford has won 18 races this year, while Chevrolet has captured 11 and Pontiac one...Dale Earnhardt has now gone 57 races without a victory, the longest winless streak of his career...Pole-sitters have had little luck this year, winning only four times in 30 races......

Ford executives

"Bruce Cambern future as head of Ford's worldwide racing operations is shaky, according to Detroit sources. If Ford's Bob Ruhey decides on a new racing boss, he could be named within the next six to 12 weeks."(JournalNow)(10-28-97)...

NASCAR completes Ford templates

"NASCAR Officials say they have completed all templates for the new Taurus and have given them to Ford teams. According to NASCAR sources, Ford's Bruce Cambern has decided not to make a major issue over some of the template questions that some of his teams have raised...