Hell yeah, pushing the limits helps improve the design tremendously by revealing the flaws that stress brings out where they may have not appeared without the stresses of racing, especially a 24 hour non stop race. How can taking what is learned in those conditions not lead to improvements for everybody else's vehicles going forward?
Yup. Racing improves the breed.
It used to be said that, "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" and that was legitimately true. People would make their car buying decisions based directly on what was winning races.
That's why we still have all those 'stock' classes - even though US 'stock car' (NASCAR) is not even remotely stock. If you get into these other series, the cars start getting a lot closer to stock - sometimes actually powered down from stock, for example.
Oh, Corvette is starting a customer series. You can now buy a legit Corvette GT3.R race car and go racing with it in series like IMSA. This is the first time in their history that they've had a 'customer racing' program.
I have a 'customer racing' car (in fact I have a number of them) from BMW. My F13 M6 GT3 is a 'customer racing' car.
Now I have two women texting me, neither one are able to join me tonight but they are very interested and wish to carry on a conversation
Sweet! That'll teach the bitch to leave.
Or not... She sounds like she likes drama.
The GT40 was a race car only and are very expensive.
The GT is a street-able race car that's expensive and really expensive. You can get a 2005 Ford GT for like 275k. In fact, I'll sell you exactly that!
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