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11-06-2013, 01:37 PM
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Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) announced yesterday at Ford's SEMA press conference that it will field a Ford-Riley Daytona Prototype (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/01/ford-reveals-ecoboost-powered-riley-prototype-for-daytona-24/) with the 3.5-liter EcoBoost (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ecoboost/) V6 in the 2014 United SportsCar Championship (USCC). CGRFS is the second team to commit to the new Ford-Riley car, behind Michael Shank Racing (which has already used the racecar to break a 26-year-old top-speed record (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/10/ford-ecoboost-lap-record-daytona/) at Daytona International Speedway).
"Over the last 10 seasons we have been able to experience a great deal of success in Grand-Am (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/grand-am/)," Chip Ganassi says, "and now with the dawn of the new United SportsCar Championship we feel that Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) power will be a key ingredient to writing the next chapter of our sports car program."
In the last Grand-Am season, CGRFS raced a BMW-Riley Daytona Prototype. The team has won seven Daytona Prototype championships, all in the past ten years. Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas return as the team's prototype co-drivers, and will attend their maiden race in the Ford-Riley at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
To mark the announcement, CGRFS brought the racecar in all its blue-and-white glory to SEMA's show floor, where one of our photographers stumbled upon it. Enjoy the photo gallery (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-ecoboost-daytona-prototype-sema-2013/) of CGRFS's slick new ride, and feel free to visit the press release below (http://www.mnfords.com/2013/11/06/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-riley-daytona-ecoboost-sema-2013/#continued) for more information.Continue reading Chip Ganassi Racing switches to the Ford EcoBoost-powered Riley Daytona Prototype (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/06/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-riley-daytona-ecoboost-sema-2013/)
Chip Ganassi Racing switches to the Ford EcoBoost-powered Riley Daytona Prototype (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/06/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-riley-daytona-ecoboost-sema-2013/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.mnfords.com/rss-term-of-use/).
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Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) announced yesterday at Ford's SEMA press conference that it will field a Ford-Riley Daytona Prototype (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/01/ford-reveals-ecoboost-powered-riley-prototype-for-daytona-24/) with the 3.5-liter EcoBoost (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/ecoboost/) V6 in the 2014 United SportsCar Championship (USCC). CGRFS is the second team to commit to the new Ford-Riley car, behind Michael Shank Racing (which has already used the racecar to break a 26-year-old top-speed record (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/10/10/ford-ecoboost-lap-record-daytona/) at Daytona International Speedway).
"Over the last 10 seasons we have been able to experience a great deal of success in Grand-Am (http://www.autoblog.com/tag/grand-am/)," Chip Ganassi says, "and now with the dawn of the new United SportsCar Championship we feel that Ford (http://www.autoblog.com/ford/) power will be a key ingredient to writing the next chapter of our sports car program."
In the last Grand-Am season, CGRFS raced a BMW-Riley Daytona Prototype. The team has won seven Daytona Prototype championships, all in the past ten years. Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas return as the team's prototype co-drivers, and will attend their maiden race in the Ford-Riley at the Rolex 24 at Daytona in January.
To mark the announcement, CGRFS brought the racecar in all its blue-and-white glory to SEMA's show floor, where one of our photographers stumbled upon it. Enjoy the photo gallery (http://www.autoblog.com/photos/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-ecoboost-daytona-prototype-sema-2013/) of CGRFS's slick new ride, and feel free to visit the press release below (http://www.mnfords.com/2013/11/06/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-riley-daytona-ecoboost-sema-2013/#continued) for more information.Continue reading Chip Ganassi Racing switches to the Ford EcoBoost-powered Riley Daytona Prototype (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/06/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-riley-daytona-ecoboost-sema-2013/)
Chip Ganassi Racing switches to the Ford EcoBoost-powered Riley Daytona Prototype (http://www.autoblog.com/2013/11/06/chip-ganassi-racing-ford-riley-daytona-ecoboost-sema-2013/) originally appeared on Autoblog (http://www.autoblog.com) on Wed, 06 Nov 2013 14:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds (http://www.mnfords.com/rss-term-of-use/).
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