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Originally Posted by speeder
It means that minute differences in lap times between ultra-high performance new cars are irrelevant when your skill set would not allow you to drive either car at more than about 6 or 7 tenths. All other differences over shadow the lap times, unless they're significant.
A couple of small mods on the 911 would improve its lap times but make it a schittier car in everyday life, IOW make It more like the Mustang.
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Right on, speeder. The point is that all of these cars so thoroughly transcend our abilities on the track, much less any sane man's needs on the street, that their ultimate performance has become moot.
I remember reading a 600 sport bike shoot-out in
Cycle World a year or two ago. With pro riders aboard, their lap times at Willow Springs spanned a four or five second range. For many, the "obvious" conclusion was that some bikes were "superior" to others. The
Cycle World staff, however, did their best to set everyone straight regarding this perception.
They said, essentially, that we don't care who you are or where you ride - you will never, ever extract the "worst" bike's performance from the "best" bike. In other words, the entire field's performance was so far beyond most riders' skills, and any sane level of street performance, that the differences in performance had effectively been rendered moot. They said that we have reached the point where you could now choose your next 600 sport "like a girl" - pick the color you like. You'll never be able to exploit the difference.