Is it true that Pirelli modified its Cup (GRAND AM) rain tire?
Ritchie: Pirelli didn’t modify it, they gave us the GRAND AM rain tire and that’s what we ran — exactly that tire right out of the box. Let’s go back to this point. You said you had a race car; isn’t that sort of a contradiction? The GT3 Cup car is closely related to the car on which it’s based and had results normally expected from some of the big budget teams with cars that are less related to their production counterparts. In addition, Zwart wasn’t that much slower than purpose built race machinery. Ritchie: That’s a little bit like our track story; we are a manufacturer, and probably the only one that builds a race car on line with our production cars. We start with a very stiff structure in the production car because it is a sports car, and then just take it to the next level into the race car. Whether it’s racing on a track or racing on a hill, it’s a purpose-built race car at that point, and they are built in such large numbers it keeps it very cost effective. But how does that
