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Originally Posted by RobbyBeefcake87
Ofcourse on Evans post on FB all the ford retards are already comparing that number to official zl1 times hailing it as an official gt500 time ignoring motortrends 11.2.
After many attemps Motortrend got 11.2 on a prepped surface at an awesome 130 mph.. they got 11.5 in a zle a10 on an unprepped surface, albeit at a much slower 124mph. The gt500 is faster for sure, it has 110 more hp and a dct, it should be faster.
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Dude, you should know better than this. I expect comments like this from Blaq, but you have better objective thinking ability than him. MT wasn't provided a car to test, MT had access to a base GT500 at the press event just as every other journalist did. Cars that were being hot lapped all day, and they got 2-3 runs, not "many" attempts, on minimally a prepped track.
Additionally, the 11.5 ZL1 times are corrected. The 11.2 time the MT journalist achieved at the Vegas press event is not corrected. We don't know the DA at the time of the run but it's safe to say it was at least 2000' which would reduce the e.t. and increase the trap speed. Also, according to those there, the track "prep" was minimal, and otherwise like street racing unless you were one of the first few to go after the rare event of a track prep throughout the day.
Evan ran a 10.89 @ 130 mph at the Vegas event (at 4,100' DA), with another guy running 10.85 @ 131 mph, both obviously uncorrected.
Blaq liked to pretend he knew they were running the CFTP GT500 and therefore try to claim a $100k Mustang runs 10s, but in reality, the base GT500 at $74k is capable of running mid 10s on a drag strip on PS4S factory tires, at 133 mph.
The biggest takeaway besides the CFTP version's track capabilities blowing everyone's minds, is the trap speed in Evan's Florida run of 10.61 @ 133 mph (DA = 975'). 133 mph is hauling no matter which way you slice it. Faster than a 911 Turbo S, and just 2 mph shy of the ZR1's corrected 135 mph in mag tests. Evan's 11.87 run with the GT* produced a trap speed of 119 and change, and C&D's trap speed was 120 mph, so we could expect C&D and MT to achieve similar trap speeds to the 133 mph run done in Florida, even if the e.t. is a few tenths slower.