Driving the Ford Mustang Mach-E 1400 race car:
. Ford says the car’s Yasa P400R motors are capable of 215 horsepower each, but the actual output depends on the battery's state of charge, and they haven’t yet tested it on an AWD dyno. So the 1400 moniker is really a target rather than a specification.In any case, it sure gets around a track. There are a couple places where the walls are far enough away that I feel comfortable pushing it, and when those big slicks break loose, it’s all gradual and controllable.
I don’t get enough laps to really figure out the braking points, so I err on the side of braking hard and early. The Brembo brakes feel firm and haul down the Mach-E in a hurry, but they’ve got their work cut out for them. The front rotors are 15.0 inches, gripped by six-piston calipers, and the rears use 12.3-inch rotors and four-piston calipers. These are the same brakes from Ford’s Mustang GT4 race car, so they’re certainly stout, but a GT4 is said to weigh 3406 pounds and has one seat.
And that’s part of the reason for this car—learning how to make an EV go fast and survive. It’s a work in progress, but the idea is that lessons accrued from this project could filter down to production cars. The Mach-E 1400 is a science project, a development mule, and a carnival hell ride all in one. This might be the first 1000-hp electric Mustang I’ve driven, but I doubt it’ll be the last.
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