OK......................These are road race cars meant to be run on road courses. That means LAP TIMES gentlemen. I wonder if Fran could post some tracks and qualifying lap times from his national championship year. Now, that would be interesting.
Another team that had quite a successful car was the blue 25 Hours of Thunder Hill car that came very close to winning that race. In fact, they would have won the race if they had not been shunted passing Miata in the last few hours. I seem to remember they qualified the car at Thunder Hill at about 1:45 or so.
Here is an in-car video 1:45.9 GT3 Porsche Cup full-on real-deal race car with a pro driver, on the same track. I have run 2:high teens in my GT40 there on street tires.
I have posted on my build page that these cars can be built GT-3 fast cars (with about the same power level) and I stand by that. I started running at COTA nearly at the outset of my journey with my SLC a few years ago. My first day had me beyond three min laps. My best-recorded lap so far is 2:36 although that was at 435HP last year on 75% used up R7 Hoosiers. I have run the car once with the new motor/550HP and I know it's quite a bit quicker. It will be very interesting in a few weeks when I run the car with new tires for the first time. However, there are a lot of GT3 Porsches at COTA and I can run with them IF the driver is at or near MY skill level.
World challenge GT-3 lap record at COTA is 2:05 and change. That's a world-class pro driver, a Porsche factory-built race car, on real brand-new race tires. My personal goal is under 2:30 lap times. we'll see how it goes.
Oh......that's how fast an SLC is.