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
On most tracks but not the Nurburgring when being compared to cars within similar power levels. The ‘ring pushes cars weights around due to the elevation changes. GT3’s really inspire confidence on the track. The GT500 scares the fuck out of you at the limit.