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Originally Posted by motorhead
That's very impressive for the mustang if you ask me. It weighs almost 1,500lb more than the cobra with only a 200hp advantage and there only a half of second apart on the road course. The drag strip doesn't surprise me at all with the mustang running slicks. The tires on the cobra did look like standard street tires though. They looked like cheater slicks like they would have run back in the day. Did the video say that the cobra was on standard street tires? I can't turn my sound on right now.
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If you stop the video at about 4:07 when it`s heating up the tires they appear to be threaded tires. As for the 1/2 second road course difference it would have been a lot more after about 20-30 laps during a real race.