[Garissimo]

Originally Posted by footie

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To me the simple answer is power and weight isn't everything [...]

That is a pretty good post, footie. Here's how I see it. Power to weight may not be everything but it is the dominant function on a track like the ring. If a car gets too heavy (Veyron) cornering speeds drop since you ask more and more of the tires and they can only grip so much, so there is an inflection point. This should not be the case with the Zonda though, as it weighs considerably less than the GT-R.

What it comes down to is that I put very little stock in a GT-R ring test orchestrated/scripted/produced by Nissan, especially when independent test of an actual production car shows drastically different results (DR).