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New Ford GT4 Mustang enjoys perfect Aussie debut

By Thomas Miles

Date posted: April 14, 2024

The new Ford Mustang GT4 has enjoyed the perfect start to its racing life in Australia by collecting back to back wins at Phillip Island.

At the hands of George Miedecke and Rylan Gray, the new GT4 Mustang was a dominant figure all weekend in the GT4 Australia season opener.

t was a fitting result, with the SpeedSeries meeting called Ford Mustang 60 Years Race Phillip Island, in honour of six decades of the legendary pony car.

It follows on from the successful global debut of the Ford Mustang GT4 which also won its first ever competition race in Daytona in January.

Despite qualifying fifth, the #35 Mustang had good race pace with Miedecke rising to second in the opening race before handing over to young gun Gray.

The Tickford Super2 driver was able to get track position and retain it over the McLaren of Marco Flack and Tom Hayman by just 0.7s to take a memorable win on debut.

The second one hour race was another tight affair between the Ford and McLaren, but again the “Blue Oval” emerged on top by 10s.

Having only took delivery of the new Multimatic-built car on Tuesday and testing on Thursday, it was a big undertaking for Miedecke Motorsport.

This is why Miedecke was very honoured and a touch to surprise to enjoy such a successful start and write the car into history.

“This is amazing. To be honest I did not know what to expect coming in with such a late start,” Miedecke told AUTO ACTION.

“But the new Multimatic built Ford Mustang GT4 was exactly what they said it was.

“The thing is it suits Australian drivers because we are used to these big front engined, rear-wheel drive cars that are high horsepower V8s and to be honest it just felt right.

“It drives like a Mustang and it was a great car all weekend.”

Image: Rebecca Hind/Revved Photography

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