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This is for Swamp, Garissimo, Bruce, in fact anyone with doubt as to the difference in the commitment of Suzuki in comparison to Chris (DR) or probably any other person who has done a fast lap in the GTR and called it impossible to lap that quickly.
On the section between Adenauer-forst and Metzgesfeld you can quite clearly hear Chris lift the throttle on almost this entire down hill section on approaching Metzgesfeld, check out and listen to Suzuki throught the same section, did he lift?, did he heck. This is one small section but it's a perfect example of why Suzuki was carrying so much more speed just about every where compared to Chris's efforts. Another example of this extra effort and commitment is the steering input, where as Chris was ultra smooth, never looking to get out of control once in comparison you can clearly see Suzuki constantly re-correcting the steering, a perfect example of a chassis that is right on the knife edge of grip (remember, Suzuki is on the ultra sticky Dunlops and not the Bridgestone that Chris was on).
It's only when you sit down and examine the lap in finer detail do you come away from it with a level of wonderment as to the skill involved from Suzuki and imagine how in the hell he was able to keep this up lap after lap.
My hat off to the guy, he is incredible.
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