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
That’s what I mean. People in these comments are saying it’s a good way to see how cars would act on real roads, but I don’t think so at all. If you can’t rely on times to be honest and fair for all cars, how could you begin to compare times at all?