{"id":35630,"date":"2026-01-30T18:39:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/?p=35630"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:39:21","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T22:39:21","slug":"rolex-24-life-in-the-fast-lane-with-ford-ceo-jim-farley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/rolex-24-life-in-the-fast-lane-with-ford-ceo-jim-farley","title":{"rendered":"Rolex 24: Life in the fast lane with Ford CEO Jim Farley"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><em>Daytona Beach, Florida \u2014<\/em>\u00a0CEO Jim Farley was at Daytona International Raceway last weekend as Ford Motor Co. kicked off the North American sportscar season at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. January begins a historic 2026 assault on motorsports as Ford Racing competes across five continents in everything from Raptor T1 off-roaders to Mustang GT3 racers to Formula One rocket ships.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The boss had time to take to the track himself and pick up one of racing\u2019s most prestigious driver awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">\u201cI\u2019m driving a Ford-powered 2002 Riley &amp; Scott prototype in the HSR IMSA Classic,\u201d Farley said Friday. Two nights earlier, he had received the Bob Akin Award, coveted as the top prize for amateur drivers. \u201cWe have qualifying tonight for our Saturday race. But right now, I\u2019ve got to go congratulate my Mustang drivers for taking pole.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PDTN\/88377363007-farley-daytona-rileyscottprep.jpg?width=660&amp;height=372&amp;fit=crop&amp;format=pjpg&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"Ford CEO Jim Farley buckles into his 2002 Riley &amp; Scott racer in Daytona Beach.\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Ford CEO Jim Farley buckles into his 2002 Riley &amp;amp; Scott racer in Daytona Beach. Henry Payne, The Detroit News<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.detroitnews.com\/story\/sports\/motor\/2026\/01\/27\/rolex-24-life-in-the-fast-lane-with-ford-ceo-jim-farley\/88374376007\/\">Read full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daytona Beach, Florida \u2014\u00a0CEO Jim Farley was at Daytona International Raceway last weekend as Ford Motor Co. kicked off the North American sportscar season at the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona. January begins a historic 2026 assault on motorsports as Ford Racing competes across five continents in everything from Raptor T1 off-roaders to Mustang GT3 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35630"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35630"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35630\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35631,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35630\/revisions\/35631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/henrypayne.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}