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Originally Posted by Chadicus

I dont call an owner's manual recommended track alignment a mod. To me it's the same as lower tire pressure on the dragstrip. I dont call that a "mod" either. If a track alignment is a mod then what is the roll cage the 500s had? Lol. Makes no sense the 500 would arrive with a roll cage but no track alignment.

Sounds to me like the M6G crew might be seeing the VIR "victory" over the C8 as the hollow and disappointing show for the 500 that it actually was. Yeah I can drive down to the local high school and dominate the JV football team in a multitude of workouts proving how much stronger and faster I am.... is it impressive if I show up at a jacked 260 and a 180 pound high school kid benches 25 pounds less than me? No.

More like there is a select few who are very comfortable with combining the VIR track results with the Vegas prepped drag results and calling it total destruction. When it’s pointed out that the C8 was better 0-60 and 1/4 miles, different days, same track, same driver, at VIR they quickly go to “but Vegas 10.6s....but in Texas Speed Phenom <who we otherwise hate> Did 10.6.” They either fail to consider or are in denial of the idea that the GT500 may exhibit very different traction characteristics on a prepped track than an unprepared track. Or that there is not a prepped track time for C8 Stingray.

I expect when we do see prepped track numbers for the Stingray, the 1/4 mile time will be better than 11.1. Probably not 10.6, but something in the high 10s. Thing is, GT500 is seeing almost a full second difference in what people are getting on prepped tracks and what they are getting “in the wild”. Ford’s materials even say the 10.6 is on prepped surface. The mid-engine layout of the Stingray probably makes the unprepared surface character not too much different than the prepped track performance, so probably not a near full second differential like with GT500. Maybe 2 - 3 tenths.