It was just a month ago that Ford Racing pulled the drape off the new Mustang BOSS 302R race car that will be campaigned this year in the Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge. Formerly known as the KONI Challenge series, the Grand-Am season started off at Daytona Beach last weekend.

Ford brought out the whole gang including racing legend Parnelli Jones who helped make the original BOSS 302 a legend some 40 years ago. Three of the new Mustang BOSS 302R’s raced at Daytona; #37 Bret Seafuse & James Gue, #16 Gunnar Jeannette & Frank Montecalv, and #15 Scott Maxwell & Joe Foster.

It was unfortunately not a great opening for the new Mustang as the new BOSS 302R models did not show as well as perhaps Ford might have preferred. But given the three teams campaigning the car had just taken delivery and barely had time behind the wheel, it does not necessarily forecast the season to come.


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