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**Once again, it's time for the FNGT!** If you don't know how this works, [click this link](https://fngt.gq/index.php?page=intro). That link will take you to another site to give you some additional information and tell you about some of our off-site features. That's also the site where we will host the weekly guitar threads, should Poal go down. **NOTE:** That site is by invitation only. If you want an invite, and you're a regular participant, then just ask Crazy, or myself. If you do know what's going on, you probably don't need to click that link - but you may want to, to make sure you know of the other features, such as the archive or a separate forum that's invite only. Remember, we are guests here on Poal. Let's act like it. If you're interested in supporting Poal, then [you can donate](https://poal.co/donate).

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I can imagine in the days of 60 years ago and before that the 24 straight hours of driving at the limits would wear out the parts and breakdowns were fairly common, and parts were not really mass produced like they are now, most of the stuff they did to build the HP on those motors was home made, I believe

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Racing improves the breed.

All that racing tech trickles down to what you have in your car.

Some of us buy cars closer to their racing counterparts. It's kinda fun watching the racing when you can say, "I have one of those!" (Or close enough to one of 'em.)

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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?

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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.