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Originally Posted by Fenderaddict2
Never claimed a conspiracy. Just saying testing on the Ring, while valid, took on mystical status thanks to the Internet that makes it seem more important to development than it actually is. You want to see high performance cars you need a good Ring time. You want a great or balanced performing car, you do most of the development elsewhere. A slower Ring time does not prove a car to be inferior in any way or anywhere else other than the Ring.
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I agree. Unless they run a car the way it comes out of the factory on the Ring, the times are even more pointless. Once you cage a car, it does wonder for rigidity of the chassis. Not only that, different days, different drivers, different conditions, with 140+ turns, times are so inconsistent between cars, it's hard to make a comparison. Even if the new GT500 runs a 7:30, would that necessarily make it a faster car than the ZL1 around a road course? Unless they did that time with traffic on the track, no.