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At the risk of getting involved in a squabble, may I make an observation?
I looked at the Viper site (although the link at the top of this page seems not to work - I Yahoo'd)
It's a good looking aircraft, and I wasn't expecting it to be a jet. I'm impressed.
However, it is by nature and design a sports/recreational machine, and cannot be compared to an oval race car. If we are looking for comparisons to machines being raced at Indy, for example, then it seems more appropriate to look at the machines being raced at - say - Reno Air Races, which are the pinnacle of the sports aviation calendar.
There is no racing class, according to Reno's site, for a Viper-type sports jet.
Although I'll concede it would be a heck of a spectacle.
But what is used as the pinnacle of air racing? The P-51 Mustang fighter, average sale price approx. $1.2 mill. If a Reynard/Lola/G-Force/Dallara is used for the cream of US motor sport, I suggest they are starting to look more like bargains every second.
But I'd still like a Viper. In the same way as I would want an Aston Martin living in the garage next to the hangar.
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