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
May’s argument is if you’re going to make a track car, make a track car. If you’re going to make a road car, make a road car.
Don’t make a road car intended to be driven at track speeds. The Nurburgring is special because its unique, should be a use case for car design.
Absolutely,
Track cars are generally miserable to drive as a daily driver. Road cars are always fun.