VIDEO: Chapter 3 of Mustang Unleashed: student vs. teacher payback
Student vs. teacher on Pinks All Out - click above for high-res image gallery
Back in June when we took part in the annual Ford Racing Invitational at Milan Dragway, we had the pleasure of meeting young Derek Murrell. You may recall that Derek is the 18 year-old who had just graduated from high school in Florida and had entered Ford's 2010 Mustang Unleashed contest. His dream was to drag race against his auto shop teacher Bill Rosenblum for the chance to win a new Mustang GT on Pinks All Out.
We talked to Derek a week before he went up against his teacher at Maryland International Raceway. Ford asked us not to tell you who won until after the program had aired on Speed which it evidently has now. Murrell, who had never raced before got coaching from veteran racer Bob Glidden while Rosenblum visited the Livernois motorsports shop to see his car being built up. What Rosenblum didn't know until he arrived at the drag strip was who his competition would be. Murrell and Rosenblum would go head to head in a best two-out-of-three for the new 'Stang. Check out the three videos after the jump to find out who got the keys.
Gallery: "The '10 Unleashed" - Payback
[Source: Ford]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
Yaroukh 4:59PM (8/26/2009)
wtf was that?
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ScuderiaFerrariF1 6:13PM (8/26/2009)
+1
Tyler 5:10PM (8/26/2009)
Chevy and dodge got it right with the Camaro and Challenger but this looks like a crying cross-eyed person with too much plastic on the bottom of the exterior.
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SGV 6:56PM (8/26/2009)
Could it be that you are looking at yourself reflected on the screen? . . . just saying
Mr.TiredOfEconomicDownturn 7:51AM (8/27/2009)
That's to make the car look smaller. Goddamnit people, don't just talk s**t about the plastic if you know nothing about aesthetics.
ipodrulz 6:32PM (8/27/2009)
@Mr.TiredOfEconomicDownturn: Hey to each his own, aesthetics is pretty objective.
Saheed 5:13PM (8/26/2009)
teacher = loser... what a pathetic way to lose!
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Acefighter 5:07PM (8/27/2009)
No joke. What a let down.
Jorge 5:36PM (8/26/2009)
Old news again. This was out on the blogosphere like a month ago.
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Yaroukh 5:55PM (8/26/2009)
"Ford asked us not to tell you who won until after the program had aired on Speed which it evidently has now."
Jorge 7:36PM (8/26/2009)
Blogosphere is not the same as TV, got it?
Josh 8:35PM (8/26/2009)
I think you need to calm down.
It was an entertaining video :).
Jorge 10:39AM (8/27/2009)
I think you need to MYOB!
Mr Clickerson 6:10PM (8/26/2009)
Scripted, staged, whatever you want- if you have been racing for so long, and you have two "dead nuts even" cars, then the teacher should have put up a lot more of a fight/won pretty easily.
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David Z. 6:18PM (8/26/2009)
That was pretty anticlimactic.
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Craig 6:21PM (8/26/2009)
Ten bucks says he wraps it around a tree the first day he gets it home
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Juice22 6:23PM (8/26/2009)
That was either staged or scripted like Mr. Clickerson said or he let his student win. Either way, it could have been at least a little closer.
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dsgnr 2:48AM (8/27/2009)
Why must every second AB Thread be about eiter the Camaro, the Mustang or the Charger?
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Mike 12:59PM (8/27/2009)
Because the others are spread over Porsche, Lambo, F1, and Bugatti. That and no one cares about Camrys and Accords.
Adrian N. 5:27PM (8/27/2009)
OMG, this is so weird. Rosenblum was my teacher in 9th grade. Wow.
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