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Originally Posted by Félix
We're moving away from the point, but a 458 is faster around a track than an Enzo. Modern cars are so well developed aerodynamically and mechanically; the only thing that's making them slightly slower than early GT1s is engine power restrictions.
Of course an old prototype in GT clothing with modern development would murder a road GT, but I'm pretty sure the racing 458s and everything that races with them nowadays are faster than the 95-96 McLaren F1 GTRs.
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The only thing that made the GT1 cars as slow as they were were engine and tire restrictions.
You cannot compare a car from ten years ago to a car today.
Unless you have a time machine and can pull a car from ten years ago straight off of a paddock, anyone prepping it today would encompass changes made in engine and tire improvements, or simple chassis tweaking making the ten year old car faster than it was ten years ago.
If a track is repaved or even part of it, a car unchanged will be quicker after the repaving than it was before.