[Matador]

Originally Posted by oneday

It's cool that we might be able to infer some details about the production FR-S from this FT86 race car...but remember this is a race car...so there is no telling if Toyota used the actual interior pieces for the door skins, dash, or any other components. The suspension/tires/brakes (pads) on this FT86 race car will not be the same as on the production version of the FR-S.

Also, I hope everyone going "this can't beat a Civic?!" and "it's faster than an S2000!" realizes that these aren't off the production line cars...none of them. Yes, the SP classes use production based cars and have a limited modification rule set, but they are still able to work the motors a bit. While the S2000, Civic TR, and FT86 are all in the same class (SP3 for this race) the S2K and CTR are probably more well sorted and better prepped than the FT86--it's not even really in production yet, after all.

There really is very little you can take away from this to apply to real world, production based street cars or even e-bench racing/production cars.

Thank you very much.