A conversation with Mark Rushbrook, Global Director of Ford Performance

I didn't know Mark Rushbrook.before this interview on the final day of Online Race Industry Week but this was one of my favorites discussions. Mark is the Global Director of Ford Performance and was thoughtful, passionate and a pleasure to speak with. He oversees all of Ford’s racing and performance activities in NASCAR, IMSA, NHRA and Formula Drift in North America, and WRC and Australia Supercars overseas. My motorsports childhood fascination began with Ford's epic racing adventures in the 1960s and it is wonderful to see that the racing spirit lives on inside the blue oval.

Online Race Industry Week is a joint production of EPARTRADE — the Global Platform for the Performance and Racing Industry — and RACER.com, was a business-to-business event for members of the worldwide racing industry that ran from Nov. 30 to Dec. 4. Hundreds of companies showed off their new racing product lines for 2021 on EPARTRADE, while RACER and EPARTRADE provided 55 hours of technical and business webinars. Sponsors included ETS Racing Fuels, Full-Race powered by BorgWarner, Miller Electric, Penske Racing Shocks, and AEM Performance Electronics.