On the course we had last time, there is no way in hell an STi should be able to beat a corvette. It was basically a 1/3 mile straight with a turn at each end.
The only reason Matt and I beat the corvette drivers is that we were flat to the floor all the way down the straight through the chicane, and were braking as late as possible. I was into the ABS at the end of the straight almost every run on the Sunday, and the only reason I felt confident enough to drive like that was because there was another 1/4 of a mile runoff down the taxiway if something went wrong. Meanwhile when I was working station 2 a lot of the corvette drivers were lifting for the chicane.
Lucas has signed up for the next event, so we will see what a corvette is really capable of. I predict he will beat us in raw times by at least 4 seconds.
Since there is no pax, I don't think it really makes much of a difference which class we run in. As long as we all end up in the same class it will be fun
