r/wec • u/Christodej Toyota • Aug 16 '24

SuperGT/DTM End of year Super GT test times

For those who haven't seen it Kyle Larson has claimed that he is better than Max Verstappen and that Max Only drives open wheelers. I recall something about him doing the post season test in the NSX GT500. It could be 2022 and was wondering if the times were published somewhere.

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u/bangbangracer Aug 16 '24

Most F1 drivers these days are pretty shit when they jump into other cars. We don't have any Jackie Stewarts these days. I always loved watching F1 stars getting beaten by rally and touring car drivers in the race of champions, and it used to be that F1 drivers would just bury their cars in the barriers at Le Mans.

As for that specific test though, it looks like they didn't actually do any hot laps and didn't put out any public numbers. It was probably more of a photo op than an actual testing thing since Verstappen and Perez showed up in a classic NSX and a new NSX.

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u/SomewhereAggressive8 Aug 16 '24

I really don’t agree that F1 drivers are generally shit in other disciplines. A current or former F1 driver has won 8 of the last 10 Le Mans outright and 2 of the last 5 Indy 500s.