It's the trophy wife(car) to be seen having for an ego. Like the Shelby's it will be a cars and coffee toy , that spends most of it's time in a climate controlled garage . Sad really.
This GTD is going to be GM's best marketing item. You can buy the ZR1 and your wife A catty and still have a nice down payment for that vacation home. Or A Ford.
GM doesn’t need the GTD to market the ZR1. Everyone knows the ZR1 from previous generations and the numbers for the C8 ZR1 speak for themselves
read my 10000+ posts then maybe you'll get it.
Maybe, but unless it is your first day back from under a rock, the Ford Vs Chevy is still tooth and nail battle. A few ego digs back and forth is why we have the 2nd coming of h/p. and performance. It is healthy.
If you think there is no decent time difference between an actual pro driver (like the GTD driver) and the engineer that drove the ZR1 (hint: he doesn’t race cars professionally), then there is nothing I can say to you at this point. Please remember teams pay big bucks to actual race car drivers because seconds matter at this level. Don’t you think profit-motivated team owners would throw a “second class” guy in the drivers seat to save a few million bucks if they could? They 100% would. The fact that they don’t tells you all you need to know.
If you think there is no decent time difference between an actual pro driver (like the GTD driver) and the engineer that drove the ZR1 (hint: he doesn’t race cars professionally), then there is nothing I can say to you at this point. Please remember teams pay big bucks to actual race car drivers because seconds matter at this level. Don’t you think profit-motivated team owners would throw a “second class” guy in the drivers seat to save a few million bucks if they could? They 100% would. The fact that they don’t tells you all you need to know.
Well, ask yourself: did they need a pro driver to beat the GTD? Nope. So if the GTD manages to get a slightly faster time down the road, GM can now say: “OK, now we’ll use a pro driver too”. No reason for GM to empty the magazine up front.
He already has his GTD and I would very much expect him to have a ZR-1 and/or ZR-1X
For a while, it was looking like everyone was on track to just bow out and play the electric car game. Like you and others have said, it’s a good thing these 2 are pushing and competing. Hopefully it remains that way for a while.
Since both companies are fully committed to racing I think there’s a pretty good bet that the competition will go forward. And that’s great for all car enthusiasts!!
Bow out, you mean mandated out. Why would anyone put R&D funds into something that looked like it was going to be regulated out of production. Once reality slapped everyone back to earth and out of unicorn fairtale land. They are back working on better/faster/quicker.
