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title: "The Ford Shelby FP350S Mustang Is the Blue Oval’s Newest Factory-Built Race Car"
description: "Ready out of the box for pretty much American road race you could throw at it."
date: "2016-12-09"
modified: "2016-12-09"
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  - name: "Aaron Brown"
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url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/6437/the-ford-shelby-fp350s-mustang-is-the-blue-ovals-newest-factory-built-race-car"
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  - "Ford News"
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  - "Coupe"
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  - "Mustang"
  - "race car"
  - "race cars"
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---

# The Ford Shelby FP350S Mustang Is the Blue Oval’s Newest Factory-Built Race Car

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Ford's new race-ready Shelby [Mustang race car, the FP350S](<https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2016/12/08/ford-performance-reveals-all-new--track-only-shelby--fp350s.html#>), is ready to be delivered to American road-racers.

The FP350S—unveiled Thursday at the Performance Racing Industry show in Indianapolis—was engineered to be legal for competing in Trans-Am, SCCA, and NASA club racing events. The car comes from the factory completely ready for hopping out on any race track of choice to run a competitive hot lap. The car comes specced to race in Trans-Am's TA3 and TA4 classes and T1 and T2 in NASA and SCCA club races.

The FP350S packs a 5.2-liter V8 engine, built by Ford Performance Parts, and a Tremec manual transmission. The car also has a race exhaust, track suspension bits, high-performance brakes, 19-inch wheels (there are also optional 18-inch wheels), an adjustable carbon-fiber rear wing, a Ford Performance front splitter, a MOTEC data recording unit, and all the on-track safety equipment you need to keep you in one piece when things get a little hairy.

![ford\_mustang\_race\_car\_fp350s\_inlijne.jpg](<https://www.thedrive.com/wp-content/uploads/content/archive-images/ford_mustang_race_car_fp350s_inlijne.jpg>)
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Though it does come straight from the manufacturer, the FP350S is not street legal. This is of course how it goes for most race cars...except, you know, [the cool rally car ones](<https://www.thedrive.com/?s=Rally%20Cars>).

But even though the FP350S isn't a rally car—or at least wasn't intended to be used as one (*wink, wink*)— it's still a damn good looking track-ready Mustang. That massive front splitter is quite a bit bigger and more race-y than what's seen on the road-going GT350Rs, and that rear wing definitely yells, "I am a race car" a whole lot more clearly than the top-level Mustang road car's spoiler.

Plus, there's just something really neat about factory-built customer race cars.

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## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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