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

  • lee1026@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    NJ and its ultra short freeway merges say that 0-60 is the all important number, at least for those of us living somewhere with bad highway designs.

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      1 year ago

      😂 merging onto 295 was always a good time in my lighting on 315 radials, except the one time there was snow on the ground… that was sketchy.

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      1 year ago

      Nope. It’s still 5 to 60 that’s more relevant unless you’re doing a 5k clutch dump with flat shifting or using launch mode.

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      1 year ago

      Merging onto 1&9 off of 35 in Woodbridge and having to immediately cut across 2 lanes to make it to route 9 taught me how important that 0-60 really is