[truthandjustice1]

"The Corvette also had a big head start."

I have the same video. The Elise drivers look of frustration on not being able to keep up with the vette was amusing.

[antiRepublicrat]

Yeah, I was laughing too. The "What could I do against that?" hand gesture was great when the Corvette pulled off on the straight. On the straighs, there's just no substitute for massive torque and high gearing.

I watched the video with a friend who knows the Ring quite well, having driven it hundreds of times mainly in a souped up Ferrari 308, a 450hp Nissan Skyline and a Lotus Elise. He showed me in the video all the mistakes the Elise driver made -- wrong line, wrong curve entry and exit points, wrong acceleration and braking points, etc. He could have passed the Corvette, but then he would have lost the lead on the next long straight anyway.