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I'm sure GTR's virtue is not the straightline. Twin Ring Motegi race, you could see it was falling behind 911T and Lambos on the straights. But if you compare cornering capabilities, GTR was certainly superior to the others. Thing is, it was initially designed as the machine for going fast on the track and that's not a secret
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I think you missed the point.
The setup of the GTR would lend itself to tight corners where it could get out of the whole quicker because of awd and quicker low end acceleration. Now your saying the part its faster at is essentially higher speed turns. That doesnt jive for a number of reasons. First its acceleration out of the turn will be less then the other cars mentioned given its woeful acceleration from 40+. Second we go back to the few admitedly sparse tests we have.. Look at the telemetry data and compare it to the telemetry data for the other cars. If we've eliminated corner exit it has to be sustainable cornering or initial turnin speed thats driving the advantage.. So then why are the slalom and lateral g forces not off the charts. They should be if its steady state where the cars making it up. Its certainly not making it up with turn in (where the weight distribution is too foobared). So that only leaves steady state and initial bite. Again it all comes back too the times not being believable with the data given. Could it be faster yes.. Could it have the times its showing.. Well something doesnt jive.
If you do the math on Stillens telemetry data for lateral g to cause the issue the z06 lateral g would need to be .76 in relation to the amount of the gtr. We know thats not true.