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Video: Justin Bell Paces NASCAR Race with Ford Mustang Cobra GT500

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With 662 horsepower, making it the most powerful series-production V-8 in history, the 2014 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 is capable of a top speed of more than 200 mph, and a 0-60 time of well under 4 seconds. On this episode of World's Fastest Car Show, Justin Bell doesn't exactly get an opportunity to let the strong pony run, but instead was limited to a leisurely 45 mph. But Bell's ride in the Shelby Mustang was still plenty exciting, with dozens of 800+ hp race cars hot on his tail and ready to run. He was the celebrity pace car driver at the Sprint Cup Nationwide Series finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway.
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Bell receives a briefing on pace car protocol by Robert "Buster" Auton, who walks Bell through the steps of maintaining pace speed, switching on the roof lights getting drivers ready, and the verbal cue to the pedal-to-the-metal action to begin. Since the race cars themselves do not have speedometers, the purpose of the pace car is to give race drivers a point of reference for the appropriate engine RPM for pit speed. A professional racer himself, Bell says the perspective of being in the lead car is an unusual one, having spent most of his racing career looking at the rear end of other competitor cars. Bell finds Trevor Bayne, driver of the number 6 Mustang, and the youngest driver to ever win the Daytona 500 at only 20 years old.
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Watch Bell pace the race in the Mustang, and be sure to watch the World's Fastest Car Show on the Motor Trend Channel every Friday.
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