We have a local drag strip here that you can make all the runs you want for $20.00. Several guys in the Mustang Club go regularly and we had some surprises.
The strip is 1/8 mile not 1/4 which makes a big difference and one of the guys has a nice V-6 and takes a lot of crap from the GT owners. So he agreed to run some of them and lo and behold he beat them.
What happened is that he had virtually no tire spin coming off the start, is an excellent driver, makes near perfect shifts and beat all of the GTs by a length or more.
Just goes to show you a lot depends on traction, distance raced and how good the driver is. I would suspect that under the right conditions a Camaro could beat a GT-500 under a 1/4 mile.
The V-6 guy does not take much crap these days.
Steve