I was looking through lap times of different production cars, and there are some wildly out of place cars doing ring laptimes, some cars are faster than they seem they should be, while others are slower than they should be. Which got me thinking how some cars truly get tested in showroom condition, and others get the “marketing” treatment to produce a laptime a showroom car would never touch, solely to sell more cars. Then I found this article that talks exactly about just that.
https://www.thedrive.com/porsche/11012/nurburgring-times-dont-matter
It’s a good stat for a 911 GT3 RS, it’s a useless stat for a BMW X5 30d.
Maybe you want to take the entire family around the ring?
Big Pete 💪💪💪
Carries 7 lads 'round the ring in no time atall
If we’re very very honest, it doesn’t really matter for the GT3RS either. Yes it’s cool to see how fast Porsche and others can make their cars go, but a super tiny amount of buyers will actually push these cars and an even tinier fraction will be able to drive them to their limit. The majority of people who seriously “care” about these stats are kids and keyboard warriors, both of which mostly have very little acutal knowledge about cars. I’d take an E92M3 GTS over an M4GTS any day of the week, even though the M4 is faster around the ring. To me, there’s a lot more to a car than lap times and power.
There was a great ad in the 90s about the Minneapolis bus beating a Porsche from the city to the suburbs. All because traffic and bus lanes.