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
Nope. You can get consistent times from 5 mph starts. Of course it creates other variables, but it’s more representative of daily driving since a lot of people will regularly floor their car.
But they’re not using launch mode or dumping the clutch from 5k rpm which is what you get when you do 0 to 60 times.