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Originally Posted by PC Valkyrie
I have to disagree with you there. Although the Nurburgring laptimes are a very good measure of a car's OVERALL performance (acceleration and handling), a lot of time on the Ring can be made up simply by having a high HP car where it will shine on the long straights and fast sweeping corners.
For a better test of "handling", slower, shorter, and more tighter tracks are probably a better venue, where cars with high HP don't have long straights to overpower lower HP cars. The skidpad grip and slalom speeds/lane change speeds that American car mags do also try to isolate the "handling" aspects objectively.
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I hear what you are saying, but generally speaking if a car handles good to exceptional at the ring chances are that it will handle very well as a whole. cts-v quick at the ring, good handling car, m5 good at the ring, a good handling car, porsche uglyamerica really good at the ring, same applies to spors cars: GTR,ZR1, Zonda, Viper ACR all of those cars handle exceptionally well on any track at any speed