06-28-2006, 07:38 PM
Evan Wrote:I disagree. It takes several seasons to truely dial in a car, even from a pro team. Development is also on a per-track basis. Several seconds a lap can be lost or gained by track specific setups. You cant tell me that Ford put in several seasons worth of develoment at every Grand Am track last year then gave all that data to every team. I doubt they even developed it to the Grand Am Hoosiers.
Im sure that Ford put it on a racetrack a few times, but its still an off the shelf package. The car came in as an overdog.
I remember last season a team took delivery days before it won a race. Thats not a developed car.
Well, I'm not going to argue with you, b/c you don't have all the facts and I'm not going to regurgitate all I've learned about that car in the past 2 years to you. I have followed the development of the FR500C from the day it was announced ford was going to provide a BIW to 'race' teams, that turned out to be a turn key race car. Ford DID share every single big of data they learned during testing because they sold 25 copies of the EXACT SAME race car to anyone with 125k and in intent to race in GrandAm Cup. GrandAm added the weight to the car b/c it dominated, they would have done it to any team. I'm saying that they obviously went overboard and have made the car uncompetitive.