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Originally Posted by C4RBON
As for the video, it irks me when people do 1 lap in each car and call the result conclusive. A .4s lead by either car after one lap is not enough to "declare" one car better on a track than another. They should have three drivers (novice, experienced, professional) do 5 laps each, and then give us some results. Then do it again on some real tires (like RE71s). People tracking their car regularly are not going to keep the stock tires.
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Probably not feasible (time/cost-wise) to have 3 sets of drivers do 5 laps each. You'd also get very inconsistent times from the novice. But as far as professional drivers go, Sutcliffe is not bad. He's known for having put down comparable lap times to Honda factory test drivers in Formula 1 cars and had a brief racing career. I'd trust him to be fairly consistent, even if we're talking a 0.5 second difference.
It's also true nobody tracking regularly uses stock tires, but it would be way too expensive for publications to add track tires before every track test. Great idea, just not practical unfortunately.
As far as I can tell, the AutoExpress video is just meant to show which bone-stock car is faster around a given track. Given the results with Sutcliffe driving, I'd say the ND Miata is slightly quicker than the GT86 at Blyton Park. Unless you're competing in a showroom bone-stock racing series at Blyton Park though, I don't think that 0.5 second difference matters.