MOTORSPORT: Miedecke Mustang revealed
Mustang production racer revealed ahead of November’s Bathurst 6 HourGeorge Miedecke has revealed his entry for the 2020 Hi-Tec Oils Bathurst 6 Hour, which was rescheduled from its original April date but will now take place alongside the TCR Bathurst 500 at the Bathurst International on November 13-15.
The seasoned racer has swapped out his Ford FG Falcon GT-F from last year for a brand-new Ford Mustang, which he says has been “under-represented in [racing] production cars”.
Miedecke described his new Mustang as ‘amazing’, telling Grant Rowley and Tony D’Alberto in the Parked Up podcast: “if I told you it is was a Mustang GT4, you’d believe me. It is beautiful”.
Built by former MARC Cars owner Ryan McLeod, Miedecke says his 2020 Bathurst 6 Hour entry is currently sitting inside the Miedecke family’s Ford dealership in Port Macquarie.
“We are really excited that the event has been rescheduled to November, and I have it sitting here in my dealership in Port Macquarie. It looks at me, sits out the front of my office and it’s the worst – it’s like having a Christmas present and you can’t open,” he said.
“I bleed blue and I love seeing Mustangs on the track, whether they are in Supercars or Trans Am cars.”
“It’s amazing. From a build quality point of view, I have not seen a production car built so nicely. It’s a credit to Ryan McLeod and his team.”
Speaking about the competition that’ll join him on The Mountain later this year, Miedecke acknowledged it will be “a tough fight to compete on outright speed against the likes of the BMWs”.
“We’ll be fighting the good fight. Those BMWs will have a lot of pace,” he said.
“The M3 and the M4 have won it and been on pole for a few years. I doubt that we’ll have the outright pace, but from a reliability point of view, we’ll be strong.
“It has a 5.0-litre Coyote engine … the car has direct injection, so it has a bit of extra grunt, so it should mean that we are around the fight for the lead.”
Miedecke said he’s now awaiting COVID-19 restrictions to lift around circuit hire so he can get the Mustang on track for its first test day.
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