{"id":24678,"date":"2019-02-25T10:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/?p=24678"},"modified":"2019-02-25T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2019-02-25T15:34:01","slug":"mustang-steals-the-show-as-brad-keselowski-brings-home-the-pony-cars-first-win-in-the-nascar-cup-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/2019\/02\/mustang-steals-the-show-as-brad-keselowski-brings-home-the-pony-cars-first-win-in-the-nascar-cup-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustang Steals the Show as Brad Keselowski Brings Home the Pony Car\u2019s First Win in the NASCAR Cup Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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\u00b7       Brad Keselowski drove Mustang to its first victory in the NASCAR Cup Series in just its second race, capturing the Folds of Honor 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       The first NASCAR Cup victory comes just over 18 months from the start of the development of the new race car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00b7       Ford Mustang is America\u2019s best-selling sports car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HAMPTON<\/strong>, Ga., Feb. 24, 2019<\/strong> \u2013 The Ford Mustang recorded another milestone moment in its illustrious history this afternoon when Brad Keselowski captured victory in the Folds of Honor 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway, giving the famous pony car a win in just its second Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series race.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a great day for Ford and it\u2019s a testament to what can be achieved when everybody works together toward one common goal,\u201d said Mark Rushbrook, global director, Ford Performance Motorsports.  \u201cSo many people were involved in the design and development of Mustang \u2013 from team engineers to design center staff at Ford to our internal team at Ford Performance \u2013 we all worked together on this project over the last 18 months and to see it end with a victory in just the car\u2019s second race is beyond satisfying.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis is a tremendous honor to be the one to give Mustang its first win in the Cup Series,\u201d said Keselowski. \u201cI know how hard everyone at Ford Motor Company and Ford Performance have worked to bring this car to the race track and to see it go to victory lane in the second race is just a testament to all the hard work and dedication from everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Keselowski\u2019s No. 2 Ford led 33 of 325 laps, but they were the right 33, coming down the stretch to give him his first win of the season, and write his name into the Mustang record books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have been a part of Ford Performance for the last five years and each year they incrementally have ramped up their efforts in NASCAR,\u201d Keselowski continued. \u201cSwitching to the Mustang was, to me, a big showing of Ford\u2019s commitment to NASCAR long term. It is always great to leave your mark on that legacy and be the first one to win under those terms.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mustang, which has been recognized as America\u2019s best-selling sports car, is no stranger to NASCAR success.  Since becoming Ford\u2019s model of choice in the NASCAR XFINITY Series in 2011, Mustang has won three driver\u2019s championships and six owner\u2019s titles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is also currently competing this season in IMSA\u2019s Michelin Pilot Challenge, the Supercars Series in Australia, NHRA Funny Car, NHRA sportsman racing, and FIA GT4 championships in England and Australia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00b7       Brad Keselowski drove Mustang to its first victory in the NASCAR Cup Series in just its second race, capturing the Folds of Honor 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway. \u00b7       The first NASCAR Cup victory comes just over 18 months from the start of the development of the new race car. \u00b7       Ford Mustang is America\u2019s best-selling sports […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-touring-series-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24679,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24678\/revisions\/24679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/16\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}