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Originally Posted by frankiebones
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Originally Posted by NISFAN
These reviews tend to be supported by the factory, so have a team of technical bods on hand to ensure car performs as it should, new tyres, brake pads, pressures, fuel type, etc.
The driver probably gets a few sessions of practice as well as one or two quali style timed runs. For reference. The driver being a racing driver and a Hockenheim circuit veteran means a pretty accurate account of a single timed run.
Whilst the times are very impressive, what is unknown is how consistently the car would lap a 5-10 lap stint. Important for Track day drivers, and how good it feels at that pace. The 6MT lap looked not much fun at all, but hopefully at 8/10ths the car feels more connected than it looked on the wild 10/10ths lap we saw.
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Why do you say "not much fun?" |
This is the G82 6MT Hockenheim lap I'm referencing.
It looks like an effort to get that lap time out of it. From a viewers perspective I would say that lap is overdriven, too hot. Both excessive over steer and under steer.
But it is a pro driver so he must have arrived at that driving style being the quickest way around. Whilst HKH GP has got a 'torturous on the front tyres' last corner, it looked like they had completely overheated by that point.
Compare how busy the lap was to the M2CS running similar lap times.