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      06-18-2014, 12:31 PM   #84
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Good question.

Horst von Saurma said that the Nurburgring lap was only driven at approximately 80% of the capabilities of the car (to avoid accidents and due to little time in the car etc). But that in that last 20% was perhaps 80% of the cars capabilities in some cases.
Sorry, do you mean that Sportauto reported that the 8:05 timing was at 80% of the M5's capability?
No, he said that any Supertest lap was driven at around 80% of what the car could do.

I posted this interview with HvS over on the M4 boards (in the M4 Supertest thread):

http://www.pistonheads.com/news/defa...?storyId=30067
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