Ferrari is a nice car, but cars at that level (and immense cost) might have only a small gain over the MSP on the skidpad, etc. A MSP can do 1g on the skidpad too with tires and minor suspension adjustments. With equally sticky tires it may not win with equally adept drivers but it won't be far behind on a tight course that suits the MSP's lesser acceleration. I'm too lazy to find current data, but here is an old article from Road&Track on the MP3. The MP3 may have been last but the numbers show it wasn't that far behind. I know people love to put Ferrari's and the like on a pedestal, but you're paying 8-10x the price, and cars like that can be tricky to drive at the upper limits. The extra cost is exclusivity because it sure isn't 8x the performance.
So I also agree that a skilled driver in a MSP will walk away from a Ferrari or Ford GT driven by someone with low to moderate skills in that car (thus proved by all the rich people that wipe out in supercars on the street). And I can say for sure that if I ran both cars on a course today, I would be way faster in a MSP because it's so much easier to use all of it's performance. You'd need a good amount of track time before you'd run 9/10th's in the GT and not crap your pants. The rich owner/investor of the place I work has a $600K barn to store his cars. 2 Vipers, a M3, older 911, a Ferrari (don't know which model but a couple years old), a 2004 Mini Cooper, and a big Yukon. He likes the M3 and Mini for fun driving the best because he says they are a lot less work to drive fast. I had to follow him in his Viper once to his other office. Hey, we were just on roads with speed limits and I bet I had more fun on that drive than he did since his car was very underused and I had to go 7/10's to keep up in spots, and that's the final goal. I'd much rather have the joy at the near limits of my car driving every day than have an awesome car that can hardly ever stretch it's legs because the road is 35mph posted and I'm stuck behind a Buick. I'll wait to buy a supercar until I can build my own track too.
I can hereby claim that the Mazda walked away from the other cars due to a skilled driver, race tires, and lesser drivers in the other cars. 
