Yep, that’s about 4,500lbs of awesomeness (passenger and full fuel) dancing around COTA. The weight anxiety is real when you slam the brakes into T12 lol. You rarely feel the weight, it’s basically wearing yoga pants…if you follow.

Power started off underwhelming (spoiled) until I found the last 3,000rpms, which shake and bake for sure. Granted, it launches out of the low speed corners. For a first timer, revving the RPMs out is a tad odd as the tach is spread out across the entire digital cluster. 

The GT500s stability control was impressive, you lean on it quite a bit. The car does move around gracefully and it will let you rotate under power. Nothing but nice things to say about driving the car in general. One thing I will note, pushing it harder and harder is addicting because you just can’t believe it’s doing all of this so well while being so heavy. The Ford vehicle dynamic engineers did a great job!

We were on the 14th heat cycle Cup 2 tires, zero shoulder left but still a decent time at 2:27, considering the factors at play. If I take it out solo with fresh tires, I bet it does a 2:23 👍