[Excaliber]

I just don't see the connection here with Tony, a proffesional driver, running a specially prepared BDR with a "secret" motor and then making the jump that anyone can buy a standard issue BDR race version and expect to run the same kind of lap times.

In short, the car represented here and continually summarized as a "recent built", a "near stock" offering and "equivelant to" a standard issue BDR is pure BS. Assuming THIS car, the 00 car, is a recent build, it is certainly a continuation of the same specs (or better) than the factory preprared race car(s) that Tony ran before this most recent example.

I do believe Tony could get the same results with a factory prepared full on race spec FFR with IRS or a number of other replicas carefully prepared as well. This has more to do with the driver and the engine than it does the model of the vehicle in use.