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Originally Posted by BigHunk
Thanks for clarifying.
Still 7:27.88 is the fastest Bmw on Nurburgring.
Regardless some guy who drive 10sec slower than official time  |
To be fair, it is Auto Motor und Sport/Sport Auto that instigated the Nurburgring lap times as a yard stick to compare cars. The lap length used today by manufacturers to publish their lap times is the one defined by AMS/SA and is often referred to as the "Sport Auto lap". AMS/SA always use the same driver (IIRC there have only been 2 or 3 drivers doing their 'ring lap time trough time) and they are pro racing drivers, not just "some guy". Further, as I posted previously, to equalize testing, the driver is only allowed one warmup lap and one timed lap for the car being tested. Further, the test cars are completely stock. IMO, it is one interresting yardstick to compare different cars but it is not an absolute, just as any other performance metric.
In oposition, factory test drivers have a lot of seat time in the test car as well as numerous attempts to pull a fast lap. Also, state of tune and modifications are not fully controlled. So for sure, factory lap times will always be faster than AMS/SA supertest times and are difficult to use as reliable metric.
What I take out of the M8 and M4
GTS respective AMS/SA times is that it is easier to be fast out of the gate in the 625hp AWD M8 than in the touchier M4
GTS.