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

  • SecretAntWorshiper@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Also the super hard Nordschleife inspired suspension basically always make the cars slower on the nordschleife. Its one of the reason why the Skoda Octavia vRS for example is faster round the nordschleife than the same engined VW Golf GTI because the golfs suspension is way to hard and nervous for the ring.

    I dont get this. Isnt the Nordschleife and Nürburgring the same thing?

      • nugeythefloozey@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        Nurburgring is the whole complex, with the Nurburgring Nordschleife being the big loop through the mountains, and the Nurburgring GP circuit being, well, the GP circuit