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<blockquote data-quote="SID297" data-source="post: 13670837" data-attributes="member: 8858"><p style="text-align: center"><strong><span style="font-size: 26px"><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank">"Official" Nürburgring Times <span style="color: DarkRed">SVT</span>’s Jamal Hameedi Weighs-In</a></span></em></span><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank"></a></span></em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank"></a></span></em></strong></p> <p style="text-align: center"><strong><em><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 18px">An official 'Ring lap time for the 2013 Shelby GT500? <span style="color: DarkRed">SVT</span>'s Chief Nameplate Engineer expounds why none exists.</span></a></span><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank">http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html</a></em><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank">http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html</a></strong><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank"></a></p> <p style="text-align: center"><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://www.svtperformance.com/articles/2013/GM_Ring_Lap_Times/GT500_Ring_Lap_004.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p>We certainly seem to have stirred up a bit controversy with our <strong><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank">recent article chronicling Nürburgring</a></strong> lap times for a few very potent Pony/Muscle Cars. In one corner we have the 2013 SVT Shelby GT500 Mustang, home of the most powerful production V8 on planet Earth; and in the other we find the Chevy Camaro (in both ZL1 and Z/28 flavors). A couple weeks earlier we posted <strong><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank">an exclusive video</a></strong> of the GT500 running a very impressive estimated lap time of just a shade under 7:40, which brings us to the point of contention.</p><p></p><p>During our dissection of the Ford footage; we had 100% raw, unedited, footage we used Chevy’s widely publicized Camaro videos as a frame of reference for lap starting and ending points. That’s where things really started to get intriguing. To the naked eye it appears that GM may have been shaving their lap times a bit by fiddling with their timers. Though definitely not conclusive the screenshots in this thread are rather damning:</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><a href="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html" target="_blank">http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html</a></strong></p><p></p><p></p><p>That brings us to an email exchange I had with Ford's Global Performance Vehicle Chief Engineer Jamal Hameedi. I really just had one simple question, why doesn’t Ford release Nürburgring lap times for the GT500. Jamal’s answer was highly insightful, to say the least. Check out the full exchange below:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Here's is the reply from Ford's Global Performance Vehicle Chief Engineer:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>So after reading the opinion SVT’s <em>main-man himself</em>, what do you think? Are manufacturer produced Nürburgring lap times actually substantive, or are they just marketing fluff?</p><p></p><p></p><p>-SID297:beer:</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="SID297, post: 13670837, member: 8858"] [center][b][size=7][i][FONT="Arial"][url=http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html]"Official" Nürburgring Times [COLOR="DarkRed"]SVT[/COLOR]’s Jamal Hameedi Weighs-In[/url][/FONT][/i][/size][i][FONT="Arial"][url=http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html] [size=5]An official 'Ring lap time for the 2013 Shelby GT500? [COLOR="DarkRed"]SVT[/COLOR]'s Chief Nameplate Engineer expounds why none exists.[/size][/url][/FONT][url=http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html][size=5][/size][/url][/i][url=http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html][size=5][/size][/url][/b][url=http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/979210-svt-s-jamal-hameedi-weights-his-opinion-2013-gt500-nuerburgring.html] [IMG]http://www.svtperformance.com/articles/2013/GM_Ring_Lap_Times/GT500_Ring_Lap_004.jpg[/IMG][/url][/center] We certainly seem to have stirred up a bit controversy with our [B][URL="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html"]recent article chronicling Nürburgring[/URL][/B] lap times for a few very potent Pony/Muscle Cars. In one corner we have the 2013 SVT Shelby GT500 Mustang, home of the most powerful production V8 on planet Earth; and in the other we find the Chevy Camaro (in both ZL1 and Z/28 flavors). A couple weeks earlier we posted [B][URL="http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html"]an exclusive video[/URL][/B] of the GT500 running a very impressive estimated lap time of just a shade under 7:40, which brings us to the point of contention. During our dissection of the Ford footage; we had 100% raw, unedited, footage we used Chevy’s widely publicized Camaro videos as a frame of reference for lap starting and ending points. That’s where things really started to get intriguing. To the naked eye it appears that GM may have been shaving their lap times a bit by fiddling with their timers. Though definitely not conclusive the screenshots in this thread are rather damning: [B][url]http://www.svtperformance.com/forums/front-page-news-143/973996-svtp-exclusive-svts-shelby-gt500-mustang-takes-nuerburgring.html[/url][/B] That brings us to an email exchange I had with Ford's Global Performance Vehicle Chief Engineer Jamal Hameedi. I really just had one simple question, why doesn’t Ford release Nürburgring lap times for the GT500. Jamal’s answer was highly insightful, to say the least. Check out the full exchange below: Here's is the reply from Ford's Global Performance Vehicle Chief Engineer: So after reading the opinion SVT’s [I]main-man himself[/I], what do you think? Are manufacturer produced Nürburgring lap times actually substantive, or are they just marketing fluff? -SID297:beer: [/QUOTE]
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