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Originally Posted by chunder
My question has always been in this series.
How on earth do you restrict something like a Lambo or AMG Merc down to 300hp!!!
Or are they silhouette cars with normal Japanese engines in them? It's been going on for years in the 300 class, and I have never quite understood the rules of that class! Using V8 engines and engines that produce 600HP in the big cars or in GT racing, yet here are somehow restricted to 300!
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In Super GT300 class, only in ealry 2000 there were cars with 300hp... ford gt with 3.5 f1 engine; murcielago gt1; 360, 430, 458 gt2, various 911 gt2 were all in the 400-500hp range before the recent massive GT3 invasion. Anyway, power is nothing when GT500/300 prototypes have a 2x or 3x better corner speed.
In 2005 or 2006 team goh tested a maserati MC12 GT1 at suzuka for a possible effort in GT500 season. Even if the car had more than 100hp compared to honda, nissan and toyota; because of GT1 aero, MC12 was a slug in corners. The project was dropped.