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
Nürburgring is usually the GP layout.
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