No I'm not, you've been stuck on the year that Vipers stopped being backed by Chrysler factory support, and I agreed you were right. There has been nothing else that I was wrong about and making a general term, due to getting one point right doesn't make everything I've said wrong. Nice try tough.
Yes because as I said they debuted in 1999 as a new team, the Viper had been around 4 years already obviously gaining plenty of experience. The fact that Vette could challenge them in their second year of Sportscar racing says something.
Yes the Comp Coupe was phased in for GT1 racing as support died out for the 2000 GTSr, Dodge wanted to run a program like Porsche did back then by being involved in motorsports but not fully. Thus selling race prep cars to teams to run in Sports Car racing since the GTSr was either going to run out its homologation or needing cars that were more up to date.
Who did they really have to beat in those years until 1999, there were no other true factory endevors pulled, the Porsche's that ran up against in 97 and 98 in FIA if I remember correctly didn't run every race. The Viper did run every race so obvious who is going to win the Championship, not to take away form the power of the GTSr. The point still stands that Corvette were easily looking to challenge an already well established factory team and did so on a couple occasions in 2000, and ran with them and could have won the 24h. That is why I'm saying what I'm saying, throwing up arbitrary numbers and having them tell the story in a black and white fashion isn't how motorsports history is told.
Yes because ALMS debuted that year. Your fallacy is that because both started in a series at the same time they were on equal footing. What you leave out is that Viper had plenty of practice around the world from 1996 to that point. Corvette debuted that year thus were in infancy.
Fan-hood? Yes because you don't have an entry level bias for Viper, I'm glad to see only one of us is the blinded fan. And though I'm being partial a bit I have no issue saying it. Numbers only tell part of the story...
No one said that in each of my post I stress that I was a Viper fan first and believe they also deserve credit and ran well. The problem that is posed, is that you can argue is both truly won when they really had no competition. Then again that's not the case since both won overall at Daytona 24h against LMPs even.
Yeah I argued with you, stuff happens and more is bound to happen to others in the field that's the nature of Enduro racing. However, there are 18 hours still and the #3 is out on the track still running well.
Also Oli is back out there and only a lap or two behind, and that can easily be made up in the time given, especially with strategy changes to push the car longer.
At least with a Motors stream I stay on track.
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