Official Release

With Ford Motor Company’s official release this morning on the new High-Performance Package (HPP) for the 2020 Mustang EcoBoost (EB), AmericanMuscle’s (AM) Justin Dugan was honored to be among the first to receive the announcement. Just in time for the Ford Mustang’s 55th anniversary, a new 2.3L HPP available on the EB, borrowed from the outgoing Focus RS, will make the 2020 HPP EB the most powerful four-cylinder sports car offered by an American automaker!

JOSEF NEWGARDEN, NO. 2 HITACHI TEAM PENSKE CHEVROLET, FINISHED 2ND: ON HIS RACE:“It’s tough when you’re not able to compete at the very, very front. We were at the front, but you want to be competing for first (place). That’s disappointing, but we gave it our all today and thought we had a pretty good race for the most part. The Hitachi car was fast, it was just a touch off what other cars had. Alex did a nice job; congrats to Andretti. We had good fuel mileage (and) Chevy did a good job for us. We just were a little short. It’s a good day, it’s just tough when you’re not competing for the win.”

Brad Keselowski bounced back from two straight disappointing races with a seventh-place finish in the Toyota Owners 400 Saturday night at Richmond Raceway. Keselowski grabbed his fifth top-10 this season and his 10th in 20 starts at Richmond. The driver of the Alliance Truck Parts Ford remains fifth in the MENCS driver standings, 87 points behind the leader. 

With the race going green for a majority of Saturday night’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series (MENCS) race at Richmond Raceway, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. overcame handling issues to earn a 16th-place finish in his Fifth Third Bank Ford.

For the second-straight week, Ryan Newman and the No. 6 team put together a solid result, finishing ninth under the lights Saturday night at Richmond Raceway in the Roush Performance Ford Mustang.

"We had a meeting on Monday and talked about what we needed to do here at Richmond Raceway as a team and then we came here and we did it, so I am really proud of everyone on this Richard Childress Racing team. We had a really fast AAA Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 tonight, especially during the last run. I think we actually had a little something for at least the top three spots. "

Camry driver Martin Truex Jr. was victorious in Saturday night’sToyota Owners 400 at Richmond Raceway, winning his first MonsterEnergy NASCAR Cup Series event in 2019.

JOEY LOGANO, No. 22 Shell Pennzoil Ford Mustang (Finished 2nd)“We had a car that was capable of winning for the third week straight and we didn’t win. That part is frustrating. We need to clean up some mistakes on our end."

AUSTIN DILLON, NO. 3 AAA COATINGS CAMARO ZL1 – Finished 6th“We had a really fast car. I think we actually had a little something for at least the top three spots. We had a little bit of a mess-up on our last pit stop and lost some track position. But we passed some good cars there at the end with Kyle (Busch) and (Brad) Keselowski. We had a really fast car. I’m really proud of these guys, the AAA team. I just wish we could have been a little further forward to see what I had. I saved a lot of my stuff for the end and was ready for that last run. But, we didn’t have enough.”

Austin Cindric equaled his career-best NASCAR Xfinity Series career finish Friday night at Richmond Raceway. Cindric scored a second-place finish, his second top-10 in three races at Richmond and his sixth top-10 finish in 2019. The second-place finish also qualifies Cindric and the No. 22 LTi Printing team for the third Dash-4-Cash race at Talladega Superspeedway and the opportunity to collect at $100,000 bonus.