To use the car analogy, replacing street tires on the Miata with racing slicks would help the Miata’s lap times. But if someone else has a GT3 and goes from similar street tires to racing slicks, his lap times will drop a lot farther because his performance envelope was previously far more restricted by his tires than the Miata drivers.
Having said, could anyone quantify which driver is having more fun?? :)
Seeing a couple of GT3s getting passed by a Suzuki Swift on the Nurburgring convinced me the Swift driver was not embarrassed.
Much in the same way that the preamp drives a high input impedance through an interconnect just fine. There is voltage slippage happening on the tracks of the music.