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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Mustang Challenge North America returns to the place where it all started, Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course for the third round of the 2026 season. The Lexington, Ohio-area race track is where Mustang Challenge held its first ever round in 2024, and this weekend will be the second time Ford Mustang Dark Horse R cars have competed on the 2.258-mile road course.
In the inaugural Mustang Challenge North America round in 2024, Robert Noaker won race one on his way to his first Dark Horse Championship. In the Dark Horse Legends class, Tom Tait claimed victory in race one and Zachry Lee earned the win in race two. Noaker has moved on to the Michelin Pilot Challenge GS class in a Mustang GT4 in 2026 and will be racing this weekend in the O’Reilly Auto Parts 4 Hours of Mid-Ohio. Lee is racing a Mustang GT4 in another GT4 championship. Tait currently sits second in the 2026 Mustang Challenge Dark Horse Legends standings after winning race two last time out at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca. Ford Motor Company CEO Jim Farley competed in the first Mustang Challenge round at Mid-Ohio and will return to the track this weekend as he competes in his sixth event in the series.
Last time out at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, two drivers earned their first wins in the Mustang Challenge North America series. In race one, Nicholas Smither in Dark Horse Legends claimed his first victory, and in race two, Devin Anderson in the Dark Horse class stood on the top step of the podium for the first time. Heading into Mid-Ohio, Cole Loftsgard leads the points standings in the Dark Horse class, and Chris Clarke leads the standings in Dark Horse Legends.
The Ford Mustang is the world’s best selling sports car and one of its most popular race cars. With Mustang-based race cars competing in international sports car competition (GT3 and GT4), NASCAR, NHRA, Formula Drift, in Supercars, at the Pikes Peak International Hill Climb and in its own bespoke regional one-make series – Mustang Cup and Mustang Challenge – the platform has an unprecedented global reach. This weekend, 37 Mustang race cars are scheduled to race across all disciplines. 24 of these cars will be on track at Mid-Ohio competing in the Mustang Challenge North America, IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge and IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge series.
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ORDER OF EVENTS
Friday June 5
9:25 a.m. – 9:55 a.m.: Practice 1
1:45 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.: Practice 2
Saturday June 6
9:40 a.m. – 9:55 a.m.: Qualifying
1:55 p.m. – 2:40 p.m.: Race 1
Sunday June 7
9:05 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.: Race 2
*Times EDT