SCCA Pro Racing - Ford Makes A Statement At Mid-Ohio

Auto Central, Aug. 7, 2012: Taking advantage of emergent interest in the Pirelli World Challenge Series, and FOMOCOs Boss 302 product specifically, Ford privateers staged a pit lane 'park in' at Mid-Ohio last weekend. The flap was motivated by SCCA Pro Racing's 2012 engine rules package limiting inlet diameters for Mustang runners and, thereby create both perceived and significant competitve disadvantages to the Ford camp.

According to Ford, "Ford is very proud of the Boss 302S and all the privateer teams that choose to campaign this production-based race car in SCCA World Challenge and other race series.

“Competitiveness is critical to the success of any racing series. The actions taken by the individual Ford teams on Sunday highlight the difficulty that World Challenge has had establishing and maintaining parity in the GTS class throughout the season and the resulting frustration of the competitors. We understand and share the Ford teams' concerns over the competitiveness and the resulting rules changes that have hurt them on track.”

“Ford Racing is committed to continuing to work with the SCCA Pro series and the Boss 302S owners to establish a rules package that will allow all vehicle makes to be competitive in the exciting GTS class.”

We'll have more on this as the situation evolves.