X2, no way the GTR touched 7500rpm on the shifts.
Pic of 2009 GTR instrument cluster
The STI took the hit on the second honk, pretty much had a 1 second advantage...
IMO, the winner was predetermined prior to the race ;-)
its kind of hard to shift perfect at those kinds of speeds especially when the car is brand new to you. i asked him and this is exactly what he told me, that he shifted at 7 or there abouts each time.
That I was, the car inched forward because it over powered the brakes a bit, no more no less, this is exactly what happened.
Heres the dyno sheet from a Stage 1 GTR EFI Logics had tuned, same mods as the one I had raced. Even if he brought it out to 7500, the car makes no more power at 7 then it did at 5500. These turbo cars are not like your big displacement v8 cars where they keep making more and more power with RPM.
At a certain point, the torque fall off on a car with stock sized turbos actually hurts you more then helps you.
How is it so hard to believe that a car with 7 less whp and equilivent wtq that weighs 500+ less pounds beat it by a car length?
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