Under my opinion, it's a shame launch a new generation car, and make the same time that a generation with 9 years old technology, this is not happens with Porsche or other brands.
I think i'm a decent driver, but one day on a Porche trackday Romain Dumas ( https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romain_Dumas ) was my instructor, on Jerez circuit my best lap was 2:00:00 i feel great was a very good time, and I told him to drive one lap, he said me ok!!!! he did it calmly, like...
A GT3 is clearly faster than Mach1 but I'm talking both cars driven by me, the Mach1 was only 2" slower, these day on the track there was GT3's and RS slower than me and others GT3's , Alpine A-110 and others faster. Were the cars fasters?? Or the driver?
Example: Maybe my driving skills is...
I have 991 GT3 and a Mach1, i only tracked the Mach1 once, on Portimao Race circuit, but was only around 2" slower than my GT3. The Mach1 have a great performance, only needs more speed, with more power or less weight.
2:50 is the BWM time, was a mistake the DH time was 2:51:2
The Mach1 lighting lap was with manual transmission, If the dark horse was only 0,2 faster with automatic transmission, with manual transmission will be slower than Mach1