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
Depends on what your goal is.
If you wanna compare specific cars on how they perform on twisty backroads, it may have some use. Ofc you’ll never reach the cars true potential, but it could give some information on how useable the power is.
Usable power is the most important factor in this day and age with every other car demonstrating insane power figures