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Thanks T-Bone for the scans. Now the links were working.
Here's what Sportauto said in the M6 supertest:
The car had Pirelli P Zero Corsa (they mentioned that they cost 1500 €, but are not available as OEM).
There's no indication that the track was wet.
Horst von Saurma was suprised that the Corsa tires weren't good for a better time:
"The reason why the benefit of these tires isn't as much (as expected) is found in the changed driving characteristics. The M6's tendency to understeer (esp. in the EDC Sport setting) is even enforced / more present with the Corsa tires. Furthermore the stability limit is ... smaller (right term?) and less harmonic."
They also reckon that the M6 would have come closer to flat 8 min on the N'ring if it was equipped with the M Drivers Package (which raises top speed to 305 kph). So the top speed was only 259kph.
In short it seems like the Corsa tires didn't do well on the M6 because its driving characteristics (ie the suspension, chassis) weren't adapted to the P Zero Corsa tires.
The Hockenheim time was done with both sets of tires:
1.14,4 with P Zero Corsa
1.15,9 with Conti Sport Contact (M5 on the same tires: 1.16,5)
Best regards, south
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