![]() That will change next year when it debuts in the Daytona 500 on February 17. But it has never competed at NASCAR’s highest level. The Mustang has also competed in SCCA, Trans-Am, IMSA, NHRA, Formula Drift and NASCAR Xfinity (since 2011). Its first race was in 1964, when it was a surprise winner of the Tour de France Automobile, a 10-day, 4,000-mile suffer fest. ![]() The Mustang has a long history in racing. ET on NBCSN, MRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). Mark Rushbrook, global director for Ford’s motorsports activities, tried to push it one step farther, jokingly asking Steve O’Donnell, NASCAR’s executive vice president and chief racing development officer, if the Mustang could run in Sunday’s Consumers Energy 400 race at Michigan International Speedway (2:30 p.m. In addition to the NASCAR news on Thursday, the 10 millionth Mustang rolled off the assembly plant in Flat Rock on Wednesday. This was a big week for the Mustang, Ford’s oldest car and the world’s best-selling sports coupe. With the technology and everything we have in today’s day and age, we think it’ll be bigger and better than we’ve ever had.” But you really don’t know until you go out and line her up and see what she does. You put your blood, sweat and tears into it. “You put in the due diligence, put in the effort, in the hope it will perform better, obviously,” he said. The NASCAR driver in him, Bowyer said, tries to figure out how fast it will be, and where engineers and crew chiefs will push to make it even faster. ![]() “The car guy in me wants to look at the lines and how sexy it is,” said Clint Bowyer, who drives for Stewart-Haas Racing. All of the Monster Energy Series Ford drivers - who followed Stewart to the unveiling in production Mustangs - watched with lust in their eyes, pounding in their chests and a little drool on their chins. Slow as that entry might have been, he got an ovation from the hundreds of fans on hand when he arrived at “Mustang Victory Circle” anyway, as Ford unveiled the Mustang that will compete in 2019 at the highest level of American motorsports for the first time.īlue and white confetti rained down as Stewart climbed from the car. He’s making his first court appearance this Wednesday afternoon.FILE PHOTO - A Ford logo is pictured at a car dealership in Monterrey, Mexico, November 9, 2016. Turney credited the swift end of the investigation to a little bit of luck along with some good detective work, pointing out that detectives later learned they had apprehended Harrison just 15 minutes before he would have left town.Ĭurrently, Harrison is being held at the McKinley County Adult Detention Center on no bond stemming from two warrants. Harrison at first denied having anything to do with the robbery but when informed of the videotape and other evidence gathered against him, he confessed, said Turney. Inside was a white clear glassy substance, which later was identified as methamphetamine. Brandon Salazar, had managed to stop the suspect vehicle near Second Street and Nizhoni Boulevard and had taken the driver, Harrison, into custody after it was found he had a bench warrant out for his arrest.ĭuring a search of his person for possible weapons, officers also discovered a small yellow baggie wrapped in a white tissue in one of his pockets. Turney said he then began searching along Challenger Road in Churchrock for the vehicle when he received a phone call that the vehicle had been seen traveling on Nizhoni Boulevard, near the sheriff’s office. He also received a copy of the surveillance tape, which showed a very clear view of what happened earlier that day. The video surveillance tape of the robbery was not immediately available but an alert was put out asking for on duty police personnel to be on the lookout for the vehicle.Īt 9 am, after reviewing the investigative report produced by Lee, Turney learned that the suspect had not worn any type of mask during the robbery. The two clerks in the store were not injured, Turney said, but one was grabbed briefly. The phone call from Deputy Johnson Lee informed him that a man had entered the store with a knife, terrorized the two clerks and he then left with a unspecified amount of money in a blue colored vehicle with the clerk’s vehicle keys along with keys to the store. Robert Turney, an investigator with the McKinley County Sheriff’s Office, said he learned of the robbery around 2:30 am, shortly after it happened. Kyle Harrison, 34, is now facing nine charges - three counts of armed robbery, two counts of assault with intent to commit a violent robber, three counts of latency and one count of tampering with evidence. ![]() A little bit of luck and some very good detective work led to the arrest of a Churchrock man March 26 for the armed robbery of the Dead Horse Mustang convenience store earlier that day. ![]()
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