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Originally Posted by manuelf
Ok. I see. But the whole discussion imho can't be fully scientific anyhow. Too many variables in the game ... and too few datapoints. If you now start to take into account:
- tire development
- weather conditions during tests/datapoints
- overall track tarmac change over the years
and so on ... you end nowhere...
I think the basic question here was: Was BMW M lazy with their last model engineering wise or not compared to its history.
IMHO not! I think you also have to take into account, that (track) performance can't be linearly enhanced over the years (with a given base technology).
This happens nowhere, when we look at tech! So when looking at the delivered performance by BMW M - which still looks like linear improvements in tracktimes over the generations, this looks like a great achievement to me and a clear sign, that M rather intensified its effort with the last generations ...
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It still is "scientific", we just need to understand the variables. As having spend a big portion of my professional career in test engineering, I fully understand that a single data point does not mean much. It is much better to rely on multiple data points, discard the outliers and establish overall trends. There's no such thing as absolutes.