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MKSGR said:
You start speculating again without proper knowledge of the facts SportAuto mentions in the recent issue that the 2s better time was achieved on a car with a modified setup (meaning a different setup than the Supertest 997TT had).
BTW: Please discontinue repeating stuff like "we all know he is well underachieving driving the 997TT". We are not in the Kindergarten here and the patience of the well informed Rennteam community should not be tested beyond a certain limit The quality of this board suffers if such unfounded and unqualified statements are posted again and again.
And you are the one properly informed? Please. You keep quoting SA like it's the bible but you do not know for certain HOW SA test their cars and under WHAT condition. You keep saying they did published how they test before but that was so long ago that a lot of the condition could have changed. Heck a test in the spring time could very well be different than one taken in the middle of summer even in the same car. If SA test criteria is really strict, why don't they post their criteria on their website?
Just as you are doubtful of Prosche's claims, there are others like me who are doubtful of SA's claim. So you are allowed to doubt Porsche but we are not allowed to doubt SA? Now that's some childish behaviour. This is a internet forum and there will be all sorts of different views, we tolerate your narrowed minded opinions, we tolerated Nick sour remarks but somehow you don't want people to doubt your idol HvS?
SA can claim whatever they want without fear of lawsuits but Porsche is liable to be sue if their claims are false. That's the difference why Porsche's claim is more reliable. Plus Porsche had someone who know the car intimately to do the tests.
The cars may hav a differet setup, but a 2 second differece on a lap time of 7:54 is only 0.4%, miniscule consider the track length. It could very well have come from temperature, track condition, better line out of a corner or whatever combinations of factors other than a different setup.
HvS have a log lists of cars he tested and most of them he drove well, but can you not accept that he might be less accomplished in a awd rear engine-ed 997TT which is 'tricky' at the limit? HvS is not god and there will be a car configuration that he cannot handle, just like Michael Jordan is great in basketball, but he is not as good in baseball or golf, he still plays the other 2 sports well but just not as good as he is in basketball.
Fact is, this is not 'HvS-is-my-idol-and-I-will-not-question-his-skills board', the big difference between his time and the factory time is what brought me to question his skill in a 997TT. You have as much rights in questioning the factory time as I have in questioning HvS's skills in a 997TT.