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Originally Posted by ChrisSlicks
It is easier to drive the more powerful car faster. You stomp on the gas, you stomp on the brakes and you go around the corners at the speed you are comfortable with. The lower horsepower car requires a higher level of commitment in the corners as that is the only place it is going to make up time. Horsepower always wins unless you drive like your pants are on fire.
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GT500 has 480whp and tons of torque just off idle, tires only as wide as a 370Z's out back, and a differential that won't even spin both tires coming out of a corner.
Lot harder to drive that GT500 to anywhere near potential than you are thinking, compared to the LS with better tires, more tractable power, better suspension, lighter weight, better balance, and a real road-racing differential (Torsen).
So if you think a nose-heavy car on skinny tires with a ton of power and a peg-leg is an easier car to lap a road coarse in, I really don't know what I can say other than stop arguing with the results. They are what they are and all the speculation in the world won't change that in the only heads-up comparison, the GT500 won.
The driver was good enough to get EXACTLY what Ford claimed out of the BOSS--2 seconds better than the GT.
Who cares if he was getting the BEST times out of the cars, he put the spread between 'em that Ford claimed--to the letter.