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Originally Posted by HeelToeShift
This is a very important piece of info. Repaving was done a few years ago making it a few seconds faster so 3 years a car maybe 5 seconds slower would be on pace with the current day 5 second faster car.
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Temperature and track state can impact lap times at least as much, probably more, than the changes to the ring for safety in the last several years. We can never have exact comparisons unless laps were done on the same day or maybe within the same week with same weather. Still, many of us love to see how cars compare including me; we just can't split small differences too confidently due to all these variables.
Gebhardt is really amazing around the ring, getting a fast time in a car that's new to him despite only having a few laps to do it. He's like Randy Pobst at Laguna Seca in that regard, except the Nordschliefe is so much more complex.