Don't know, don't care.
All I know is you've asked him to justify his position and I'm asking you to justify yours because you present yours with facts, which quite frankly don't seem to stand up to scrutiny. And you've still not answered the question.
I answered your question, I see no reason why the owner of both an EVO and CSL would make up lies and he is a real person.
I've posted a video of a CSL doing 1:18, of which was running standard power, had the brakes changed to APs and was running Michelin cups and driven by an enthusiast, not a professional.
A guy who we don't know but is known by others on the internet has being timed in the damp at 1:16 and that guy claimed he thinks the car had a 1:12 in it. His CSL had 100kg weight reduction, 380BHP so obviously some cams/remap in place, no doubt coilover suspension, was running full slicks and is a professional driver. It does not really take much intelligence to realise this guy is gonna be a few seconds faster than the guy in the video doing 1:18's in a CSL that's pretty much stock apart from brakes. Are you disagreeing with this?
I know for a fact two or three guys in person who attend a lot of track days in their M3's and CSL's, they have coilovers, big brake kits, one is Alcon, the others AP's, they are all running Michelin cups and they are all lapping within 1:17-1:19 region in the dry on cup tyres, none of them hold a race license. These are real people who I have met in person and have no reason to tell porkies, they have fun and enjoy track days, this is the times they have managed.
So when a guy who is a professional driver, who other people know and confirm he does indeed own an EVO that's vastly modified on which he spent a small fortune and now owns an M3 CSL on which he removed weight from, tweaked the engine a little, fitted coilovers, bigger brakes and ran full slicks. I think we can safely assume he is capable of lapping faster than the group of guys I know doing 1:17-1:19's, he has no regulations to meet and from reading his post on other forums Donnington and Snetterton seem to be venues he frequents regular so its safe to assume he's a master of those tracks.
What I have done is provide links to claims I have made, of course we don't know those people making the claims or the person in question (Blade) who has said his EVO was doing 1:15's and his M3 CSL was quicker and mentioned a 1:12, he is just a guy on the internet, but he seems from reading his post rather genuine and well if he is at Donnington in a couple of weeks he can probably confirm or deny all.
Point is DG has made claim after claim, changes his mind often and has not even provided one single link trying to backup his claim or any evidence of any kind even if like you say under scrutiny it would not hold up.
Does DG even drive, how many trackdays has this guy done? I've attended well over 30 track days, driven a lot of different cars on track including EVO's and well as others have said an EVO/Impreza are a poor platform as track cars and to make them fast tends to mean big horsepower and a lot of money spent. Of course with money, time and expertise they can be made to go very fast, but so can any car, some of the cars you see at track can be a complete surprise and some can be very fast, but they are typically RWD or FWD vehicles as 4WD offers little/no benefit on a dry circuit and as such the added weight and power losses tend to make them slower.
DG at first claimed at sub 400 horsepower EVO not heavily modified and not running slicks could run a 1:15, all of a sudden that was changed to 1:19, then it was an Impreza, he was asked politely to post a link to the car or even a video, but its just someone he knows. Do you believe a sub 400 horsepower EVO can run 1:19, seriously what is your input on this considering the timeattack 650 or 850BHP Impreza I posted was only just managing such times. I've also being on track with my mate Tom, he owns an EVO X, he came on a track day with me in the 911, he turned up and slicks come out, I am like you crafty bugger. He was like the only way this is keeping up with a 911 is if its running slicks. At this time my 911 was not as fast on track as it is now, I was typically hovering in the 1:25 region and I was very slowly gaining on my mate in his EVO and passing him, mainly under braking and top-end acceleration. This guy holds a race license and his EVO X which was stock FQ-360 with the only thing changed was pads and to slick tyres was in 1:25 region, this is a FACT, real life it happened. So when DG comes along saying his mates sub 400BHP EVO, running normal tyres, not a pro driver and he does 1:19, well I guess the guy knows a shortcut on the track, DG's claims do not add up, would you not agree?
