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Latebreak,
In my opinion 4000 pound cars are not good for much if anything? That anything being a drag strip. While the Supersnake has been lowered, now has brake cooling ducts, adjustable coil over Eibach suspension with adjustable shocks or dampers as you road racers like to call them, 6 piston Baer calipers, huge new rotors and new Eibach sway bars its still 4000 pounds and doesn't belong anywhere but a drag strip from my viewpoint due to its weight. I think those suspension mods were added to help from people taking their new 725 HP Mustang and promptly killing themselves while driving home. The new Supersnake is not an "R" model with the interior removed and safety equipment added.

From years of road racing and Karting and the deaths of a few friends on so called open track days in their high end supercars. I came to the conclusion that the only car that should be on a road course is a purpose built track car with the proper saftey equipment and lots and lots of weight removed. I guess the new ACR Viper might be the exception but the new ZR-1 is still in my view strictly a street car and as I have repeatedly said on this thread probably the worlds best new supercar.

Ford is building a new Mustang for 2010 with independent rear suspension and will more clearly compete with the new camaro in terms of a road course test. All the suspension tweaks Shelby does is simply to make the new cars handle better due to leaving Ford grossly obese. Remember he built 36 purpose built track cars in 1965 for the Mustang and a many comp Cobra's. It seems to me Shelby has always had comp cars and cars for weekend road racers. However in the 60s those Mustangs were capable of barely 120 MPH. Now his new Supersnake will easily exceed 200 MPH. I can't imagine he thinks any of his customers are capable of safely driving a street car on a road course at those speeds.