RideTech 33 VS Lamborghini

[bret]

The RideTech 33 Ford was very graciously invited to a track test with the Factory Five guys and Hotrod Magazine a few weeks ago in California at Las vegas Motor Speedway. They ran our car, a Factory Five Cobra, a Factory Five Daytona Coupe, and another Cobra replica built for Summit Racing. All these cars ran against a Lamborghini Gallardo on the road course.

Here is the video from Hotrod Unlimited:



On the dragstrip...

The RideTech 33 ran a 11.54@ 123mph. My car had the worst 60 ft time and the best mph...by a lot! It was also the heaviest of the bunch at 2595 lbs.
The Daytona Coupe ran a 11.87@ 117 mph
The red Cobra replica ran a 11.74@ 118mph
The Summit Cobra replica ran a 11.50@ 115mph

They didn't run the Lamborghini on the dragstrip

On the road course...

The Daytona Coupe ran a 55.60 lap
The Lamborghini Gallardo LMP550 ran a 54.53 lap
The red Cobra replica ran a 55.26 lap
The RideTech 33 ran a 53.89...beat the Lambo by .6 seconds!

They didn't run the Summit Cobra on the road course.

I was not able to be there myself because I was attending a funeral that day in Indy. I think I might have been able to tune our car up even a little more I'm sure Micheal was wallowing around my my "EL Grande" sized seat in the 33...that never helps confidence or lap times. Also...the guy driving the Lambo was a driving instructor at the Exotic school there...lots of seat ime in that car and on that track. Michael, [Hotrod's test driver] had NO previous seat time in any of these cars and did an amazing job!

Very cool test! Many thanks to Dave Smith, president of Factory Five, for his monumental efforts in coordinating all this. He picked up my car right after the Del Mar Goodguys show on Thanksgiving and has been putting all this together since then. I've not seen my car since November!

Thanks as well to the people at Summit and Hotrod Magazine...VERY proud to be included. I am hearing that there will be more on all of this on the Hotrod website and in the print magazine coming up shortly.

[Sieg]

Ya gotta like that!

[FETorino]

It's a Ford what chance did the Italians/Germans have?

Very cool feature Brett.

[JohnC]

Cool video...thanks for sharing. Congrats, Bret!

John

[69x22]

That was a cool video Brett?

[eric1967]

Very cool. Thanks for posting.

[fleetus macmullitz]

Enjoyed seeing/hearing your car gettin' flogged, Bret.

That was a well produced vid, and we actually heard some healthy motors instead of music blaring over everything...they get it.

[headcase]

Pardon my Ignorance on this whole subject, but as you see, my comment will look very 'generalized' knowledge.

A Ford that was made back before world war II.... going faster than a Lamborghini (modern 21st century technology) around a race track tells me the Ford, even though a Brick with Aerodynamics of Hamburger, actually 'handles' better than the Lamborghini, otherwise, it would have been slower.

Is that correct?

If so... how the heck did that car get made to handle better... as that is what I wanted to achieve with my 69 mustang. To handle as good as modern exotics.

[Finch]

Originally Posted by -George-

If so... how the heck did that car get made to handle better... as that is what I wanted to achieve with my 69 mustang. To handle as good as modern exotics.

The Ridetech 33 is full of Ridetech parts. If you want your 69 to do the same all you have to do is open up the Ridetech catalog

[headcase]

What, that simple... no custom fabrication etc needed to increase torsional rigidity and so forth?

How do you get the down force to stick to the ground to go through corners hard like exotics?

Cant be as simple as open a catalog... If it was... why doesnt everybody just make enzo like Muscle cars.