Originally posted by sigma:
Track rules stipulate that if someone can catch you in a turn, whether you can totally kick their asses in a straight or not, you let them pass on the straights. You don't accelerate out of the turn and you wave them passed. And that's what happened in almost every one of those incidents.
You can also see in the vid that, when they wanted to, the Vette's pulled away hard. Just look at 3:40 to 4:00. He was on that Vette's ass in the turns and then 'Vette took off and left him in the dust, he got 20 car lengths ahead in 10 seconds. At 4:23 that same 'Vette clearly didn't accelerate like he had the last time and allowed the Evo a left pass. He wasn't racing, he was following the rules.
Come on, this is basic physics here. Those Corvettes are doing more power to the wheels (the C6s and ~the same if they're C5s) and weigh at least 100lbs less. That track-prepped one is probably doing 50+whp more and likely weighs a few hundred pounds less.
Open track days are a poor measure of performance comparison. I've got videos of stock RX-8s literally stomping the hell out of M5s, Porsches, Vipers, Corvettes, and Ferraris on track days. Just running circles around them, wave-by after wave-by after wave-by. Does that mean the RX-8 is better than all of them?
 330 whp on the Evo will get the car into 11 sec quarter. A Vette with 50 more HP is not going to beat an Evo.
Until you drive an Evo you will not understand.  Trying to explain it to you would be pointless.
Last edited by EVOLUTION VIII; 06/25/06 05:01 PM.
Hector
2003 Rally Red Mitsubishi Evolution VIII
257HP/259TQ
2005 Lapis Blue Mazda 6s
RET: 00 Cabernet Red Ford Contour Zetec ATX SUPERCHARGED
160HP/141TQ
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