I was thinking earlier, how in the past i've commented on Mario's project and stuff, and how others here also comment on it in a bad way. Why do we only give Mario & the GTR700 development crew shit, and not HKS, Signal, and so on? The HKS cars, Signal cars etc. were all built in a similar fashion to GTR700 - Not by one person. We also never commented on the first times those cars ran when they were only running 10s etc did we? I think that GTR700 has alot more potential, and considering the little amount of time it's had on the track the times it's ran are pretty impressive. Look at how many runs it took the HKS car to run the times it runs - it didn't just come out onto the track and run a high 7 straight away. It may be an individual providing the $ for the project rather than a company, but everybody involved with GTR700 deserves a fair bit of credit for building the impressive machine they did. If we're gonna call Mario a chequebook racer in a bad kinda way, i guess we should be saying the same for 99% of the other fast drag cars out there.
Just my $0.02c.