new skyline

[Maengelito]

From every review I've ever read, the Z06 is not an easy car to drive on track by any means. Most find the brawnier Viper to be the "better" track car. So I wouldn't be surprised if the GTR laps the 'ring faster due to the nature of the Z06.

i hear quite the opposite. i hear the Z06 is very easy to drive while the older vipers were easy to drive if you didnt mind your legs being roasted by the sidepipes. i dont have any experience in either car, but i doubt i'd see so many vettes at the track and so much support for them and so much success within their class if they were difficult to drive.

but then again there is such a thing as too much power for a road course. this is where the awd setup of the skyline makes up for the power deficit in my opinion. the skyline can pull itself through corners that the z06 would have to drift through, bleeding off speed.

this statement is completely false. horsepower is never a bad thing with a capable driver. its not like the accelerator pedal is an on/off switch. however, power delivery is much more linear with a NA motor (LS7) than a b00sted one (skyline) which means that it probably makes feathering the throttle more difficult when trying to wait for the snails to spool up. and i dont think awd makes a lick of difference for dry pavement. tires would be more important. now if it was raining, then yeah, awd would be ideal (see maeng circa July 2005 at VIR-N instructor clinic, man, the rain is fun with awd.)

okay, thats pretty sexy right there