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Agreed, the times are rendered uncomparable since they changed the tires - increasing both size and stickiness! It's bogus.
by newnewpdro 8y ago
Agreed, the times are rendered uncomparable since they changed the tires - increasing both size and stickiness!
It's bogus.
- toomuchtodo 8y agoTo you, it's bogus. To a consumer, they're getting Ferrari performance for hundreds of thousands of dollars less by slapping a different set of tires on. It's marketing, and it's done well. Just another lever pulled to stoke demand for the (higher margin) Performance version, and it was done with a software upgrade.
- newnewpdro 8y ago> and it was done with a software upgrade What was done with a software upgrade? We have zero meaningful measurement of what the software upgrade alone achieved because they changed so much in addition to it. The time improvement is on the order of what would be expected when adding tire width and softness.
- rurban 8y agoIt's mostly incredible performance of the time to market. The improvements made it into the consumer version within two weeks, not two years.
- strange_quark 8y agoIf you read the original article, they also swapped out the brake pads for Brembo brakes and pre-cooled both the motors and battery pack before doing the lap. Not really a 1:1 comparison.