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JonBoy

Talk about slow reflexes, though. Notice how he wasn't even close to staying on the pavement through the chicanes? He kept taking a couple of feet of dirt at the apex on a few because otherwise he couldn't maintain speed through there.

Lithium Lotus

the biggest complaint with the previous GT500 was the lack of suspension tuning for a car with that power.

TubeDriver

Very fast through NASCAR, carousel and oaktree.

4evertopless

I know, it looked like someone's first lap out

Why wouldnt they run a few more and clean that up?

JonBoy

I don't think he could've cleaned it up. The car is pretty big and heavy and it can't transition that quickly at those speeds. It wasn't the driver's reflexes that were slow, it was the car's reflexes that was making him do it.

It was faster to just barrel through like that than to slow down a bit and drive "cleanly"...

4evertopless

Through the chicanes, yes, but he had several corners where he came in way too hot, and understeered-off alot of speed and angle. I even saw him enter one corner in the wrong gear, and then shift mid corner

Onehots2k

Engineers were curious how much faster the latest iteration of Ford's ultimate Mustang is around VIR than the 2010 model. That's a good question, considering the 2011 model receives a number of upgrades (including the aforementioned performance package, which adds wider forged aluminum wheels, stickier rubber, a 3.73:1 drive ratio, stiffer springs, and revised aerodynamics) designed to help it move 'round a road course.

The result? An entertaining video, and a 2:58.5 lap time around the 4.1-mile track. In contrast, the 2010 GT 500 lapped VIR in 3:07.4, nine seconds slower. Seems like moving to an all-aluminum aluminum engine (which shed 102 pounds) and retuning the suspension did quite a bit of difference.

Rxmfn7

For comparisons sake, from the guys who track there often.. what does a well driven S2000 run around that track?

Luke 813

So it only takes it 114 HP more to match the corvette grandsport's time around VIR, LOL. That said, solid improvement over the 2010 model. Probably would have been even faster if the driving was smoother, some of it was fairly sloppy...