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I think the information and perspective he put forward are reasonable. Certainly it is difficult to reproduce all variables with different cars, from different companies, different days, differing weather conditions etc. Certainly Ford sells Mustangs just fine without the Ring time. And GT500's are nice cars with exceptional power and performance.
That being said, they still seem pretty dodgy about saying what they were able to get out of a GT500. And that video that circulated on SVT Performance seemed rather suspect as to any authenticity, other than that they had their car over there testing. And I CANT BELIEVE that if it was a great time they wouldn't have said so...why in the world would you not report a great time if you have one to report?? You can state all of the possible variables yes...but the drag strip also has MANY variables and some cars go right to their max potential and others not...drivers vary...in fact all conditions also vary in sanctioned races.
People do actually care about ring times because even though it can vary and isn't the racing benchmark its sometimes put off to be, it does give "some" ability to compare performance racing. I for one would like to know what they got out of a stock GT500, but it seems we will never know the answer to this question. No matter, Im happy with my car and it makes no difference I suppose.
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