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JimFlat6 said:
Ring lap times can be very telling. For those obsessed with numbers or who can only compare road cars with cold statistics, its the intellectual easy way out.

But some cars are more than just the sum of their parts or their lap times. Some cars are actually truly special. They can evoke a sense of pleasure, a sense of occaision and a
sense of visual presence that some with top lap times can't.

For the Germans, the Ring seems to be everything. For others its just part of the whole picture. If the Nurburgring was near Warsaw instead of in Germany, I doubt German car companies and numbers obsessed customers would even care about it.



Don't worry. I know what you mean as, per to date, I have driven in excess of 35.000km in current production Ferraris. And I do know that lap times are not everthing when it comes to emotions...