[TRZ06]

Originally Posted by BlaqWhole

If it walks like a duck...


No. I'm not admitting that now. Let me be clear about that. Because either you are very naive, or you intentionally act like you don't understand things that are simple. Your answer is a FOS. Human error and tires are not the reason it lost a full second on the third lap. If that is the case then something is terribly wrong with that car that a Human driving it has difficulty keeping the performance up after the first lap. And if it is the tires then that shows that Ford did not put enough development into a $94K performance car during the 6 years that it was away and while they were benchmarking the ZL1...which doesn't lose a full second after 3 laps BTW. So there is something soo far off with this $94K vehicle that while other cars are continuing to go around a track at high speeds it is falling soo far off that the 3rd lap results might as well be from a completely different vehicle.

Any, all, or none of all the factors listed could be the reason for the delta. The truth is that there are so many variables that nobody knows and the cars are not driving themselves. Although, those days may not be too far off.

What matters (at least to me) is how a car makes me feel driving it, that is the human element that keyboard racers really have no clue about, unless they have actual seat time in all models they are going on about.

I love my SS 1LE, but if given the chance to own even a standard GT3 (even if the lap times and stats were close), I would trade it off in a heartbeat.