100%. But I think the marketing/sales aspect of that is in fact driving (no pun intended) the chassis toward a more race-centric feel and so as street cars they suck.

It’s all so irrelevant simply because most drivers can’t drive a car fast. I don’t think the average sports car owner realizes how different their driving capabilities are from the pro racing drivers pushing those cars around a track.

At the track, with a typical lap time of say 1:30 for a pro an average driver will be doing 1:45 to 1:50 lap times. So what the hell does it matter that one car is 2 or 3 seconds faster than the other when performance is all driver based?

Too many times I’ve seen guys in their new Lambos and Maclarens getting lapped by guys in an old M3. Worse always used to be the Vette drivers refusing to admit that the Miata guys were going faster.

(am a former race car driver and instructor)

yup, came to say the same thing. I was going to post "James May was right about this, the desire manufacturers have to produce faster lap times has ended up giving us worse sports cars. "