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Originally Posted by DaveN007
As opposed to the landed gentry who buy Corvettes and immediately have the power steering removed?  All modern cars lean on technology. I am certain that a real noob in a GT-R will be beaten by a Spec Miata with the proper driver any day. Take the wrong line at speed and you can't get around a corner quickly. Even in GT-R.
People who lap tracks on foot look down on folks on horseback, I suppose. 
Most people don't consider owning "Jacuzzi City" off the Jersey Turnpike to be "old money", by the way.  |
What I meant to say was that the GT-R should be a much easier car to drive than say, a Vette, since it comes with a dual clutch tranny and is AWD. This means you can know next to nothing regarding shifting, just let the car do it, and the AWD should make it very forgiving. Take a Vette and/or Viper, and your noob driver will spin it out with perhaps the slightest mistake.
As mentioned, a noob may run it at 70%, which may not be good enough, but such a car with dual clutch and AWD will be a much easier car to handle than others, even with all that weight. Just compare the videos showing the ZR1 and GT-R at the ring, the GT-R driver looks calm and collected, but the ZR-1 driver was shifting and steering, while almost losing control a few times, as though his life depended on it. That ZR-1 video was made for one thing alone, to show that it can beat the GT-R, and nothing else.