I'm not going to get into the fact that it didn't happen yesterday and what not. The Grand Sport 2 series was a year old (the #52 Mustang win at power hogging Daytona was this fall and the Targa race was back in Sept) I was just putting forth some of my knowledge of pro racing series and disproving the myth about the handling thing, and proving my theory about power and torque....it said so right in the Targa rules as I pointed out.

That column was not biased toward Ford, it was direct from the sanctioning body merely reporting the success of the Mustang in that series. People think I'm kidding when I'm talking about road race set ups being effective on the Mustang.

What people see at "open" track weekends or on the street doesn't make a valid arguement because of the lack of rules or giudelines. I am showing you hard proof from sanctioned racing series that torque and power makes the difference. The BMW's in that series also run V8's and they are also successful.

Nothing is wrong with Import Tuner, I just find that people who read it (having no prior car or racing knowledge) may tend to get wrong impressions because they focus on weekend bracket racing and street car setups a lot.........which is cool for people who want to race a bit and have a street car - but just don't take it to the extreme and think that a car like a Celica, Triburon, Civic, RSX or S2000 is going to take on a fully prepared Mustang, BMW, or Porsche on a road course. I am not lying when I say that big torque is needed in serious road race competition.