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
But it might be somewhat easier to pull together a clean lap in a well balanced car with generally more grip than power, compared to something that wants to blow its tires out through past 4th gear and can carry way more speed on the straights making braking more tricky and critical. There’s also the matter of confidence in the car, which could be worth many seconds alone on a track as long and treacherous as the Ring.