I was channel surfing last night in between the Miami Dolphins while the PATS were crushing them, and I came across this show. I was interesting the M3 won 3 out of the 4 events. It pitted Paul Tracy in the M3 and Tanner Faust in the F. The F was a '10 model with the LSD and the M3 was an '11 with the updated tail lights. Did anyone get a chance to check it out? I believe it was a repeat episode.

http://www.speedtv.com/programs/batt...the-supercars/

 

Just finished watching the episode. How do you guys know the F wasn't in Sport mode?

 

I hate watching replays of this so called battle. There is no way the F would lose by that much if driven in sport mode. F! Tanner, totally sandbagged the whole test.

 

^^ Give the audience what they want.... Made for TV...

Joe Z

 

Tannet drove the heck out of the lfa in another episode. It just looks like the m3 was the superior car this itime

 

damn it tanner!!!

 

Does it not bug the hell out of anyone else that the IS-F, a sedan, is continuously compared to the M3 coupe??? Why wouldn't they compare the M3 to the IS-F in its sedan form? It has been bugging me ever since the IS-F came out and this rivalry begun.

 

read post #49.

it doesn't bug me at all, because i know e90 and e92 m3 performance are virtually the same. if anyone is to think e92 is noticeably faster than e90 m3, that's a horrible assumption. doesn't matter which m3 you take, e90/92, given the same driver, results will be extremely close to each other

 

So, I watched a few more episodes of Battle of the Supercars last night, and I am pretty well convinced at this point that Paul Tracy is simply a superior driver. The reason I bring this up is b/c even though I know the M3 is a bad-a$$ car, Paul Tracy housed Tanner when they tested the M3vISF. Tracy was in the M3 and Tanner in the ISF.

In back to back episodes last night, Tracy won 3-1 and 4-0 over Tanner. I've seen quite a few episodes, and I can only once recall Tanner beating Tracy. And last night Tanner was making a lot of excuses after getting beat repeatedly. Tanner made the ISF look "bad" that day, and I believe the tables might have turned (or at least been even) if Paul had been in the ISF. I'd like to see a redo with Paul in the '11 ISF and Tanner in the M3.

Am I crazy?

 

No, you're not. Tracy is, clearly, the sigificantly better, more experienced road course driver. As such, the results are not reliable indicators of a car's performance against direct competition. I would be saying this even if the IS-F had come out victorious.

 

that's why to me this show is for entertainment. never really care much about results