Interesting lineup and good race. Happy to see my all-time favorite roadster and one of my favorite sports cars take the win, but the M2 has gone a long way to be able to put up a fight, and it's the regular M2, so props to BMW. I've already gone into its tuning potential which is mind-boggling. But the GT4 RS was love at first sight and I wouldn't mind it being NA, making it incredibly expensive to modify.
The Golf R looked slow in this lineup, which was expected, but the fact it can be tuned to 450 hp and nearly 600 nm with an intake and exhaust makes it a huge bang for your buck, even more so with the unlimited tuning options from stock to hybrid and big turbo setups at a reasonable cost. The EA888 Gen 4 is perfect for the tuning enthusiast, as if Gen 3 wasn't incredibly potent already (talking from experience). But it needs a tune at the very least.
The RS3 vs A45s drag was once again down to reaction time, as both times the Audi walked away the A45s was just a tad slower off the line, but was clearly reeling in the RS3. When they launched simultaneously, the A45s won and kept creeping away. Furthermore, on the rolling races the Merc was notably stronger up top, even though I think the difference isn't that big, so the RS3 driver must've been a little late, but never kept up (while the A45s was reeling it in after its late start). To sum up, the RS3 has the advantage down low, but the A45s has better top end, as we've also seen on previous videos. Of course the tuning advantage here goes to Audi and let's be honest, who would keep their RS3 stock? But plenty of A45s owners will.
PS: Gotta laugh at the ignorance in the comments section. Somebody even said that the A45s is tuned because it doesn't have a soft limiter. With a 12.3 1/4 mile lol.
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