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Yes because the looks mean everything.

And no, wrong again. I've said it before in this very thread that I'm not faulting Aston Martin itself for not bothering with literally anything with this old, outdated and weakly equipped car, because why should they when the organizers have artificially made it the best performer of the bunch by law from year to year. There is no reason to do anything in such scenario, just relax and show up for the races. You can just see how weak it is when running in IMSA trim, where it still has most of it's generous gifts but not all of them (or others have the same amount).

But you know, if FIA GT1 World Champ kinda got laughed at for having old grandfathered Maseratis, Aston DBR9s and Corvettes winning races in front of new Nissans and alikes, then why shouldn't this ancient piece of... whatever deserve the same for outclassing 458s, 991s and C7.Rs? At least the factory developed hyper MC12s and co were genuinely better cars than some privateerly built Lamborghinis, but the Aston Vantage GT2 is without the doubt one of the least convincing -base- GT packages out there, was from the very beginning. And when you have a world championship where such model outshines the others, well...

Look this Vantage is now 6+ years old and will go into next year with little change. Some mods were made in 2012 but basically it's the same car. Now have there been models in recent years that were run even longer and yet were still (semi) competitive? Of course, look at the Saleen S7-R for example. From Laguna Seca 2000 to Zhuhai 2010 in ACO related racing, wow! But that car A) wasn't run by factory team when it was old enough for old folks home B) wasn't constantly in the top of the timecharts solely because of BoP