Editing Ford Mustang (section)

=== Drag racing ===
The car's American competition debut, also in 1964, was in [[drag racing]], where private individuals and dealer-sponsored teams campaigned Mustangs powered by {{cvt|427|CID|L|1}} V8s.

In late 1964, Ford contracted [[Holman & Moody]] to prepare ten 427-powered Mustangs to contest the [[National Hot Rod Association]]'s (NHRA) A/Factory Experimental class in the 1965 drag racing season. Five of these special Mustangs made their competition debut at the 1965 NHRA Winternationals, where they qualified in the factory stock eliminator class. The car driven by [[Bill Lawton]] won the class.<ref>{{cite web|last=Morris |first=Charlie |url= http://www.cartechbooks.com/vstore/showdetl.cfm?st=0&st2=0&st3=0&CATID=21&Product_ID=2553&DID=6 |title=Ford's 1965 Factory Experimental Mustangs |work=Car Tech |year=2009 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20110911210046/http://www.cartechbooks.com/vstore/showdetl.cfm?st=0&st2=0&st3=0&CATID=21&Product_ID=2553&DID=6 |archive-date=September 11, 2011 |access-date=January 2, 2016}}</ref>

A decade later [[Bob Glidden]] won the Mustang's first NHRA [[pro stock]] title.

Rickie Smith's [[Motorcraft]] Mustang won the [[International Hot Rod Association]] pro stock world championship.

In 2002 [[John Force]] broke his own NHRA drag racing record by winning his 12th national championship in his Ford Mustang [[funny car]]; Force beat that record again in 2006, becoming the first-ever 14-time champion, driving a Mustang.<ref name="fordpr"/>