After much time of prepping and preparing the Ford Mustang is finally ready to make its debut of road racing in Europe. The Mustang FR500C, which has seen victory in the U.S. race, Grand Am KONI Challenge Series has been registered for the FIA GT4 competition. On the other end you have the FR500GT, which will be racing for the very first time, that has been registered for the FIA GT3 competition.

Blackforest Motorsports, who delivered the Ford Mustang FR500C’s first win in Grand-Am Cup Series competition in its debut at Daytona International Speedway in 2005, will be looking to accomplish a similar feat in 2007 as the Florida-based squad has announced plans to contest the 2007 Rolex Sports Car Series season in GT Class competition with a Prep2 Mustang Cobra.

Ford Racing will build the race engines utilizing infrastructure which is already in place to support the FR500C Grand-Am Cup program, and the Mustang Cobra will ride on a Crawford Racing-designed and built chassis. The Blackforest Mustang Cobra will race in the GT Class against competition that includes the Pontiac GTO.R, Ferrari F430, and Porsche 997 GT3.

The old saying goes: “Fast, Cheap, Reliable… Pick two.” How would you like to get the best of both worlds and get compatible Ford Racing Performance Parts at a decent price to make your 2005-2006 Ford Mustang GT fast? Well, here is how you do it. Ford Racing Performance Parts, on Tuesday, November 1, 2005, at Special Equipment Market Association (SEMA), released the plans for their new line of Ford Mustang “Performance Packs” to be offered for the 2005-2006 Ford Mustang GT. The Ford Racing Performance Packs were included in the Ford Mustang FR500C that won in the Grand-Am cup championship.

A very popular concept Ford Mustang from a few years back was the Ford Mustang FR500C. The FR500 was a concept circuit race car in 1999 with a healthy 420 bhp and an equally healthy pricetag of $125K. The FR500 Mustang was dubbed the “Boy Racer” by Ford executives, as it was created as a race-ready concept Mustang.