"....seems like he's only giving it 6/10ths."
For an F1 car, maybe 4/10s. At 8:34, he was cruising.
RE: Sabine Schmitz.
"When she was 19, she set the lap record in a Ford Sierra Cosworth (8'16")."
http://www.jwhubbers.nl/ring/sabine/clarkson.php
Sherwood