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The Rehagen Racing #59 Mustang sports an eye-catching livery featuring Chattanooga-based Moon Pie marshmallow sandwiches as tasty weight ballast. Yum!
The Grand-Am Continental Tire Series came into the new year with a roar—or more accurately, “The Roar Before the 24” official testing sessions at Daytona January 4th to 6th 2013. The weekend gave the teams of the nation’s premier street stock racing series the chance to dust off their cars and sharpen their driving skills prior to the series opening round at Daytona three weeks later.
Since they’re usually very fast and competitive around the 3.56-mile “roval,” Daytona attracts Mustangs from many teams, including several series part-timers. Teams took the opportunity to shake down new cars, test setups, and finalize their driver lineups before the start of the official start of the 2013 season. Check out the images and captions that recap the action on-track and in the paddock.
Images and Captions:
Jack Roush Jr.-led Roush Performance brought three cars to Daytona for testing. Here a mechanic finalizes tire pressure on the #61 Mustang Boss 302R.
Friday’s testing sessions were hampered by damp track conditions. Here the #52 Rehagen Racing Mustang fights for traction around the track’s International Horseshoe. Later the Mustang would end the session backed into the tires at the outside of turn one after slipping on the painted white stripe at the high-speed corner entry.
Dempsey Racing mechanics “pump out” the tank on their #58 Mustang Boss 302R. The procedure uses the in-tank pump to empty the fuel tank into jugs. The jugs are weighed to determine fuel consumption and tank capacity.
Parked back in the garage, the #58 Dempsey Racing Mustang is next to its #158 stablemate.
Rehagen Racing brought a fresh #59 Mustang Boss 302R that Rehagen Racing built in-house out of a genuine crashed street Boss 302 Laguna Seca.
The Racer’s Edge Motorsports Mustang Boss 302R waits in the garage for another practice session.
The Capaldi Racing Boss Mustang 302R powers out of the International Horseshoe during a dark and damp testing session Friday afternoon.
Two Mustang Boss 302 Mustangs negotiate the infield road course at Daytona: The Capaldi Racing steed leads the Racer’s Edge Mustang.
Roush Performance Mechanics tend to the differential of the #60 Mustang Boss 302R after Friday afternoon’s testing session.
Some of the twelve Mustangs present for testing at Daytona included the Jim Click Racing Mustang Boss 302R and FR500C.
Long-time racing partners Mike McGovern and Jim Click tested the #2 Mustang Boss 302R at Daytona. Here McGovern pilots the attractive blue Mustang around the high banks at Daytona.
A popular way to get a driver “up to speed” is for one driver to follow a quicker teammate around the course. Jim Click is in his previous-generation FR500C Mustang followed teammate McGovern around Daytona to learn the fast line.
BTE Sport brought their #43 Mustang Boss 302R to Daytona for testing. Here their Mustang apexes the last turn before heading back onto the banking.
The Dempsey Racing #158 Mustang has its turn for “pump out” to determine fuel consumption and capacity outside the garages at Daytona.
The Roush #51 Mustang “rides the rim” at speed around Daytona’s NASCAR turn three during Saturday afternoon’s testing session.
Former Mustang Challenge and World Challenge racer Rich Golinello speeds down Daytona’s front straight during Sunday morning’s testing session in the Racer’s Edge Motorsports Mustang Boss 302R.
