[Garissimo]

Originally Posted by Irb Digital

Wrong. The effort that a billion $ company is going to put into what its world beating, flagship sports car, with millions invested, is capable of doing will far exceed what some independent magazine will do. According to your logic, privateers should have no problem matching manufacture backed teams in sanctioned racing. This simply does not happen.

Interesting angle, but why is it that privateers are able to match or approach the ring times Porsche and BMW and Chrysler (Viper) advertise, but not Nissan's? If a manufacturer's published performance metrics are only capable of being duplicated by a monumental factory-backed effort, they aren't particularly relevant, IMNSHO.