Click above to watch a preview of the Mustang Challenge on Discovery HD

It's been just over a year since Ford Racing unveiled the FR500S Mustang at SEMA in Las Vegas, but the spec road racer has already been through an entire season of races at some of the best tracks around North America. The Discovery Channel has been at each race capturing all the action from the first green to the final checkered flag, and will be airing a three part series on HD Theater starting December 7 from 8-9 PM ET with the next episodes running on the following two Sundays. The show will feature footage from in-car HD cameras as well as the off-track challenges of each team. Sound interesting? Check out the video preview of the show after the jump.

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So you have a dilemma. You've got an itch for racing sports cars and cash to burn. Taking on Porsches and Ferraris in the GT2 category sounds fun, but the competition is pretty stiff and a spec series with a level playing field sounds more appealing. What are your options? If Porsches are your thing you might want to try the Porsche Supercup, featuring the 911 GT3 Cup, that runs in support of Formula 1. Rather go Italian? You can race an F430 in the Ferrari Challenge in North American, European, and Italian series, or try your hand in the brand new Lamborghini Super Trofeo series racing the Gallardo. American muscle more your style? You can race the FR500S Mustang in the Ford Racing Mustang Challenge at eight of America's best race tracks. We think each of them sounds like a ton of fun, but tell us which one you would pick in the poll below.

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Poll: In what spec racing series would you want to race? originally appeared on Autoblog on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:07:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

Click above for a high resolution gallery of the FR500S Mustang

If there's anything better than racing on TV, it's racing on HD TV. Just a few days after the first customers received their Mustang FR500S race cars, Discovery Channel's HD Theater announced that it would be doing a three-part television series on the special Ford Mustang Challenge racing series that exclusively features these pony cars. The show will take a detailed look at the inaugural year of the series, from the first testing sessions this month all the way until the last race in September. Miniature in-car HD cameras will capture all of the action on track, and the identical specs of each Mustang ensure that there will be plenty of it. There's no word on when the series will actually debut on HD Theater (we asked, they really don't know), but the press release after the jump provides all the available details for now.

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Ford Racing Mustang Challenge gets HD reality series originally appeared on Autoblog on Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:03:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.