[Garissimo]

Originally Posted by footie

Yes Sportauto are unbias but if you think that either company prep their cars differently for magazine reviews then you are showing how bias you are. Each company, in fact every company make doublely sure the car supplied will be at it's optimum.

Prepping a car for a magazine test is quite a bit different than sending along a chief engineer and group of technicians who actively modify it after consecutive runs around the ring - which is what Nissan did when they achieved their sub 7:30 time on their "stock" GTR.

Originally Posted by footie

If will say again, if Horst doesn't deliver a time close to what I have suggested then Sportauto need a new wheelman, because 7:45 was achieved by someone driving one for the first time on only one flying lap and driving the car with the steering on the wrong side to him. All things that if put right could easily knock 8-10 seconds off his time.

Here you are telling Sporauto they need a new wheelman if they don't get below 7:45. You haven't even allowed for the blindingly obvious possibility that an actual stock GTR might not be as fast as Nissan claims. As south himself said, if another stock GTR runs closer to the 7:50 mark you might want to reconfigure your expectations on what the car is capable of, not the drivers.