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The Mustang GT4 was developed jointly by Ford Performance and the Canadian company Multimatic from the Ford Shelby GT350R-C. It was earmarked to compete in sports car championship racing series around the world, including the IMSA Continental Tire SportsCar Challenge, Pirelli World Challenge GTS\/GT4, and various European GT4 series, including the British GT Championship.<\/p>\n
The works Multimatic team entered two cars in the 2019 British GT Championship, with Scott Maxwell and Seb Priaulx giving the #15 Multimatic car GT4 pole position on debut at Oulton Park and clinched the class win in race two. A third Mustang GT4 was entered by the RACE Performance team.<\/p>\n
The RACE Performance car was driven by former BTCC racers Sam Smelt and \u00c1r\u00f3n Taylor-Smith in all nine rounds of the series. Despite high hopes, it was a disappointing season for the new team \u2013 a best result of eighth in GT4 (twenty-first overall) at Snetterton. RACE Performance finished fourteenth in the GT4 team championship, with just four points \u2013 a long way behind the Mustangs of Mutimatic Motorsports, who finished an excellent third in the table with 156 points and two class wins.<\/p>\n
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Despite being the least successful of the British GT Championship cars, I love the look of the RACE Performance Mustang. There\u2019s something about grey and pink on a racing car that I like \u2013 the C4015 Honda Civic (buy it here<\/a>) is probably my favourite model in the BTCC range. Unlike the Civic, the Mustang has a gloss finish over most of the car, with a super-looking matt finish at the back, behind the yellow stripe. In fact, the rear of the car looks sensational, with the big chunky wing, the classic Mustang rear lights, exhaust pipes and superb detailing.<\/p>\n The front is pretty awesome too. Scalextric have captured the big, aggressive stance of the nose, headlights and that big splitter jutting out just above the track surface. The matt black grilles on the bonnet (or should that be \u201chood\u201d?) contrast nicely with the gloss grey paintwork. All over, the small sponsor logos, driver names and detailing parts \u2013 including brake discs \u2013 make this a special car to look at.<\/p>\n Under the body, the Mustang GT4 is typical of late 2010s \/ early 2020s Scalextric models. It has a shallow tray interior, giving plenty of room for the mechanical components underneath. There is a standard short-can motor in an inline configuration, driving the rear axle via a 9:27 gear ratio. The car is Digital Plug Ready (DPR) meaning it can be easily converted to digital by using the C8515 digital plug. There are working lights front and rear, each headlight mounted on its own circuit board, which takes up less room at the front of the car. I like that.<\/p>\n Another thing I really like is the \u2018Mustang\u2019 logo cut-out on the bottom of the underpan \u2013 it is a nice touch and something I hope will appear on plenty of future models. A feature that is a blast from the past are the two different magnet \u2018pockets\u2019. This means the magnet can be left where it is \u2013 between the motor and the rear axle \u2013 or moved to just in front of the motor. Changing the position of the magnet gives a car different handling characteristics. Moving it forward of the motor gives more \u2018tail-out\u2019 action, but better front-end grip. This option helps with more advanced race-tuning techniques.<\/p>\n I ran the car straight from the box and found it very tail-happy on my SL6 layout<\/a>. It was annoyingly easy to spin in the corners as the rear tyres seemed to have very little grip. I also measured the magnetic downforce on my DIY \u2018magnet marshal\u2019 and it came out on the low side. I launched the ARC app and ran the Mustang for two minutes, clocking up fifteen laps and managing a best lap of 6.96 seconds. This compared to twenty-two laps and a 4.67 second best lap for a standard Porsche 911 RSR, which is \u2013 so far \u2013 my favourite of the Scalextric GT cars.<\/p>\n I routinely scuff up the rear tyres of my cars by briefly running them on some 600-grit sandpaper. This removes the gloss surface of the slick tyres and increases grip. I did this on the Mustang and repeated the two-minute run, getting up to twenty laps and a best lap time of 5.40 seconds. A huge improvement with just this one simple tweak. There were then a few other basic changes I made \u2013 loosening the body screws a turn, re-routing the rear light wires to over the rear axle and adjusting the braids. You can see how I did all this to the Mustang in the How To: Basic Tuning Tips blog post (coming soon!). The result was twenty-three laps in two minutes and a best lap of 4.75 seconds \u2013 almost as quick as the Porsche and with one more lap completed.<\/p>\n Not only was the Mustang fast, it was good fun to drive. It does have a tendency for the back to slide, but gives you time to catch it. The Porsche \u2013 and many other cars \u2013 just spin out or flip. Even though the Mustang is big and quite tall, I never felt it would tip. Moving the magnet to the front of the motor will increase the tail-out behaviour and although that may increase lap times a bit, it is the sort of handling I really enjoy. Usually, I would remove the magnet entirely and then tweak the car to run \u201cnon-mag\u201d. Being able to move the magnet is a much easier procedure, but with a similar outcome.<\/p>\n All-in-all, I really like the look of the Mustang and I am very happy with its handling and performance, especially after some basic tweaks. I know I am going to enjoy driving the Mustang and it will be the subject of several more blog posts looking at how to tune and race-prepare a Scalextric car.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Catalogue code: C4182<\/p>\n Standard version: www.jadlamracingmodels.com\/scalextric-slot-car-c4182-ford-mustang-gt4-british-gt-2019-race-performance\/<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.jadlamracingmodels.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/Mpan1.jpg\")
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Track Performance<\/h4>\n
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