Nope, not even close. I rode in one at Road Atlanta this year when I was instructing with Peachtree BMWCCA. Its a cool car, but it won't hang with no Z I can assure you.
Yep, that was my experience at the Glen this year too.
I had a rather sad M5 encounter. I was in the esses at Watkins Glen right behind a shiny M5. It was raining, but not too bad. Just as we started the last right turn at the top of the hill (at about 110 mph), the M5 driver nailed the gas for no apparent reason. He did a nice job countering the slide and then lifted completely; of course he spun the other way, shortening his car by about a foot when he hit the Armco on the inside of the turn.
He was fine and amazingly his car was driveable, not road legal, but the radiator and all the spinning stuff survived; no airbag deployment either. I thought that was strange.
Yes I did and he had a great attitude about the whole thing. We talked about it (in public), hopefully others would learn from this classic mistake.
He is a very nice guy, he was there with another buddy who shared his ride so the dude didn't have to sit there for the next day and a half - now there's a good freind.
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