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Originally Posted by ToothDoc
For years, GM was screwing up by putting crappy Goodyear F1s while everybody else was using PS2. Finally, GM figured out that magazine bench racing and #s sell car and now they're putting the STICKIEST tires on their Corvettes and now this car.
It's pretty obvious that the 305 width tires around all 4 corners is the secret here. Mechanical grip is what allows you to turn quicker and since turns are the slowest most time consuming part of the track, it makes the most difference. Stick those Trofeos on the GT3 and I guarantee that instead of 1/2 second, it would've been more like 1 1/2 or even 2 seconds of difference. You can't have two well sorted out cars with one weighing about 700 pounds more be that similar given that they have about the same HP (well, slight difference - but being offset by quicker shifts of the PDK) be only 1/2 second apart on a 2.4 mile track.
I'm not surprised by the results.
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Bingo, everyone loves to ignore tires when looking at comparisons. Sad, considering it's probably the largest variable of all.