12th Annual Mustang Show at Tasca Ford

Hello Race Fans!

This weekend is our Tasca, John Force, Tim Wilkerson Mustang Food Drive - the 12th annual food drive that we’ve done at our dealership – Tasca Ford. It’s a car show with some of the finest Fords on the east coast. We’ve had people from Florida, Virginia and even Michigan that drive out to put their car on display. We’ll have three rock bands that come in and play everything from the Beach Boys to The Rolling Stones to all kinds of music. The admission to the car show is two cans of food. In years past we have raised over 10,000 pounds of food for the food bank. John Force flies in to show that he kicked this off 12 years ago. It’s hard to believe how time flies. This year, I’ll have my partner and teammate Tim Wilkerson there, as well as the Wood Brothers of NASCAR fame who are attending. Of course, I will be there with my grandfather and family. We’ll fire-up the Motorcraft/Quick Lane Shelby Mustang and that’s a pretty wild deal because a lot of Rhode Islanders don’t get to experience what we do every week. Unfortunately, there isn’t a track that is real close and a lot of people just watch us on television. It’s always amazing when we hit that throttle. The fans at NHRA they know what to expect, but you see thousands of people surrounding the Mustang and then we hit the throttle. It’s like an earthquake. Everyone jumps two feet off the ground. It’s fun for me to bring our Funny Car to Rhode Island, to my hometown and at the same time help such a worthwhile cost with the Rhode Island Food Bank.

After the car show, we’re going to take the crew guys fishing. A lot of the guys on my team are from the Midwest and down south and they’ve never been out deep-sea fishing. We’re going to charter a boat and Wilkerson, Chris Cunningham, Marc Denner and the guys, we’re going to go about 40 miles off shore and see if we can catch some tuna and mako shark. The guys came back from fishing in Brainerd with three or four-pound walleyes and they had some fun doing that.

They’re in for a treat.

When we hook into one of those big fish they’ll have something to talk about for years to come. It’s our little break in the action. It’s kind of the calm before the storm. We get a chance to give back to the community, have a little fun on that Sunday morning and then we’re off to Indy – the biggest race of the season. We did pretty well at one of the other biggest races on the circuit this year at Gainesville. Hopefully our luck will continue the same in Indy. This is an exciting time for me to be in the position that we’re in. We’re three-quarters through our second year, it’s quite an accomplishment for my guys. I really enjoy it. All the time, travel and energy everyone puts in is tremendous. When you set low ET of the day or win a big round, that’s what makes it all worthwhile. We’re solidly in this field for ‘The Countdown to 1’, we’re looking forward to moving up before the points reset and roll into Charlotte where we have another big event with our JDRF unveiling and debut of the JDRF-themed Motorcraft/Quick Lane Mustang.