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Really it just requires the car arrive with one set of new tires on it. If they do timed laps, they do those before any drifting, burnouts etc. Did Ford know they were going to do timed laps with a pro driver? If so, shame on them for not delivering it with new tires. Big Willow is definitely a...

Car and Driver does not test acceleration on a prepped drag strip. Essentially, they use a regular piece of tarmac to do their quarter-mile testing. The drag strip videos you watch maximize traction which is essential for a car like the GT500. On a regular piece of tarmac, the GT500 is missing...

This is true. However, the Cup2R laptime advantage over the Cup2s doesn't last very long. If the owner had been to the track once or twice on these tires already and worked the tires hard each time then they had probably already dropped off to about what a regular Cup 2 would do. It is a big...

I am not sure when the ACR lapped VIR however, the VIR repaves and track limit extensions were easily worth more than a second per lap. Probably more like 2+ seconds on VIR full. The repaving alone gave a lot more surface grip let alone the two wider corners. The caveat is that track surface...