1. Nissan GT-R R35 - This would be my daily driver as it’s rapid, somewhat comfortable (more comfortable than my Miata) and reasonably practical.

Not surprised. The Porsche campus on the Silverstone site is fairly big, and I can’t imagine they’d be too happy with one of their rivals owning the track.

Basingstoke is not just outside of London.

Given that rumours about Corvette Racing starting up a GTE-Pro effort in the WEC are getting louder and louder, who better to hire than the son of one of Corvette Racing’s most successful racers? He’d do great in a Corvette, and it’d bring yet another semi-famous name to the WEC paddock.

Compared to other supercars... it’s relatively cheap to run, relatively practical, it’s easy to drive when you want it to be and it’s about as quick as a previous-gen supercar. Furthermore, I love the styling (I know most hate it but I am a fan of the aggressive look) and I think that it’s quite hard to find a car…

Exactly. So many people willingly parrot what they’ve heard without going and finding out for themselves. I’ve been fortunate enough to drive the GT-R as well as things like Ferrari’s 458 and McLaren’s MP4-12C. The GT-R was just as much fun, because it had an element of savageness about it that the others did not.…

No, they won’t be. Audi’s dominant diesels and Porsche’s new challengers will be the main attraction. Nissan’s car will be nothing more than a footnote - if it even still exists and hasn’t been salvaged for parts.

Only in America. Elsewhere, they’re really rare. I’ve seen more Aston Martins, Nissan GT-Rs and even Ferraris randomly on the streets than I have seen Corvettes here in the UK.

I own an NB Miata. My solution was to change the factory double-DIN head unit to an aftermarket Sony single-DIN head unit that features bluetooth, USB and Aux playback. Changing your head unit is really very easy - it took me about 20 minutes to do, and most of that was spent removing the clunky factory one.

It was not heavily damaged - between the crash and it coming back out on track, only about 2 or 3 minutes passed. Other GTE cars in class had issues too, so it’s not a BoP issue.

That doesn’t mean anything. Modern WRC and WEC racing cars have 4 cylinder engines, and they are not slow. Cylinders != power.

Yes - you do. The other driver’s rule breaking does not negate your own. Purposefully holding them up increases the chances of an accident taking place. You should *always* move over, unless you are passing slower traffic or the other lane is closed. There are no other exceptions to that rule.

Tough shit. You’re not affected by this, and you have sweet fuck-all right to demand that she’s charged for anything.

Dominated all weekend? Did you see the #4 car? It was passed by half the GT field on the first few laps. The #3 car only won because it stayed out of trouble all race, which seems to be something that most of the other GT cars could not accomplish. The second placed Ford was running the same pace throughout the race,…

The historics collection over at raceautomobilia.com may interest you. I have a clock made from a gear from a Corvette C5-R.

I’d love that video a lot more if it were titled correctly. There are no GT cars in that video, just road cars. A GT-spec car would be considerably faster - not F1 fast of course, but much faster than the road cars.

There was one set up at the Goodwood Festival of Speed - You got about 3 minutes in the thing. Some barely audible audio was playing (there were Can-Am cars outside drowning it out) and both the pedals felt as heavy as they should. The brakes in particular were like trying to compress nearly-set concrete.

The M6 competes in GTLM, but as far as I know isn’t able to race in GTE for some sort of reason. It’s less bulky at the front than the GT-R is, though.

Exactly. May as well just race all these electric cars against Top Fuel dragsters if they want a straight line race.

From what I’ve heard, the car has too much frontal area to be competitive in GTE/GTLM. It works as a GT3 car, but GTE/GTLM is more aero dependent.