Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-27798333-20160627192003/@comment-28333578-20160627195323

Well, since the first part has been answered...to the second.

Prior to LeMans, every time the Fords and Ferraris got on the track together, the Ferraris were better. At the Rolex 24 in Daytona, the Ferraris won handily. At the Spa 6 Hours, the Ferraris won by over 2 laps and were .75 seconds faster in qualifying. So, the answer isn't really clear, but either Ford discovered something between Spa and LeMans or they just sandbagged the whole world to start the year. That said, I suspect the commentators are looking at sector times to determine "fastest" and not necessarily straight line speed down the Mulsanne straight. Prior to LeMans, even the Corvettes were running the Fords out of town.

I don't believe all the numbers in the game anyway. I mean, we run laps at LeMans in 2 minutes 40 seconds or less, yet the real drivers turn them in around 3 minutes 20 seconds. Same with the Venom...top speed in the game is 290mph, top speed in a real world test was 270mph. I don't believe PR numbers either...so the Venom is 94.3PR and the Corvette C7.R is 90.9. Does anyone really think that if you took those two cars to Daytona, Spa, LeMans, or anywhere else that the Corvette wouldn't win a 8 or 10 lap race by a huge margin? So, it's all just good fun.