It's a second slower in the track. How many second do you need to be tired from the hard suspension? Anyway, the Megane is very fast, it's the best in its class, the driver was right. But you can't live with it every day. I'm a petrolhead, but sometimes you want to relax (on a big journey for example) and it just cannot let you do that.
In my opinion though, the journalist tried to provoke the GTI and it cost him time. The PP demands a kind of "recalibration" from your mind. It's diff is electronically controlled in combination with the ESP, so if you go FAST it won't slide, it digs and go, or brakes and stay in its way. Way different to the "old school" Renaultsport.
Well, I chose das auto!!!