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

    • Secret_Squire1@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I suspect it’s because the GT500 was tested without the track pack which adds the Cup 2’s. I know for Leguna Seca they had the CFTP.

      https://fastestlaps.com/tests/uhk1c6v3dgba

      At Eurospeedway they had the normal version with the PS4’s which the 1LE beat. Or the 1LE is just faster in general. I didn’t check every lap time before I made my blanketed statement.