tomustang said:
I knew somebody was going to say something like that. It's called accidents. If you've ever watched a race, you've seen that cars sometimes make "contact" with one another. This "contact" often results in maintenance requirements that take up many, many laps. That 50th place Porsche was actually lucky it even got back on the track, the damage to that car was huge.
If its more about the driver than the car, why is most of GS made up of very expensive Porsches and not highly economical Mustangs? A team could probably put 5 race prepped Mustangs on the track for the cost of 1 race prepped Porsche. If it's about the driver and not the car, does that not give them 5x the chances of winning? Why don't they do that? Because Mustangs don't win these races very often. Yes, the driver is a factor but a good driver in a bad car is still at a disadvantage to an average driver in a superior car.
In equal cars, yes, the driver is the determining factor.