A couple of nice accounts of Mossie/262 encounters.
The second one shows as aspect of speed/endurance we often forget in our game.
No one would deny the P51 is ultimately a faster plane than the Mossie, but read how the Mossie pilot kept having to throttle back for the sake of his Pony escorts:
http://www.mossie.org/stories/Norman_Malayney_2.htm