GT40/Noble M400 comparison

[Scott]

There has been some discussion of the relative quickness of original GT40s as compared to modern sports and racing cars. This Top Gear video has an interesting head-to-head with a Noble M400.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4661851097984943684&q=top%20gear

Scott

 

[Ron McCall]

That was cool!

 

[Richard]

Clarkson mentioned brakes and power as possible weaknesses of the original GT40, so it would be reasonable to expect that a well sorted, more powerful replica with optimised brakes would trounce an unmodified Noble...

 

[Howard Jones]

It's all about the tires. Run the same tires and lets see what happens.