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Originally Posted by shaffe

Did you guys not read the article or did you just look at the headline? Nothing in the article comes off as its a straight line car only.

Many automakers—including Chevrolet and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles—have made the Nürburgring-Nordschleife the lap time benchmark, but it's not in the plan for the Shelby GT500 according to Widmann.

"It's not a benchmark for Ford," he said

"The boss of Ford Performance did say that the automaker will likely give a GT500 to Car and Driver for the publication's annual Lightning Lap test at Virginia International Raceway, and a lap time would be published from that test.

Ford's lack of interest on chasing lap times with the 2020 Mustang Shelby GT500 comes as no surprise, it took the same stance with its GT supercar."

If the car was going to be a straightline car only, they would not be offeringe a track pack with adjustable suspension bits, super sticky tires, super aggressive aero and rear seat delete.

All this article did was confirm that Ford is not changing its stance, that it doesn't use lap times as a benchmark/advertising tool

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Ok. Now that I got that out of my system, the GT500 is definitely expected to be a track car, because of the stuff shaffe listed, plus the inclusion of coolers, plus the fact that they specifically call the CF content a track package. I get them saying "we aren't gonna set out to post record N'ring numbers". I don't know why they wouldn't but their reasons aren't really important to me. The fact that they intend to provide it for the Lightning Lap at VIR speaks volumes.