Watch a Peugeot 308 GTi 270 Chase the Cayman GT4 on the Nurburgring

This video we've discovered paints a similar picture, but with a French flavor. The Peugeot 308 GTi is certainly not the best French hot hatch ever made, but it's one of the newest and fastest.

In a drag race with a Renault Megane RS, it stands a real chance, as it's a relative featherweight thanks to the much smaller 1.6-liter turbo engine. The 270 model also has larger wheels, brakes, and a mechanical diff.

You know what else has a turbocharged engine? Not the Porsche Cayman GT4, which belongs to the old guard of naturally aspirated precision tools.

And yet we have this video that cannot be explained. The only logical explanation to several minutes of a Peugeot keeping up with a Porsche and eventually overtaking it is that the GT4 drive is not sufficiently committed.

In fact, a few weeks ago, we showed you another or possibly the same GT4 being leisurely overtaken by the BMW M3 Ring Taxi. Crazy!

So naturally, we had to pull a few numbers for this one. The benchmark for the GT4 is set pretty high, this 385 horsepower machine having completed a lap of the track in 7:42.

There's no benchmark for the Peugeot 308 GTi, but a few folks have done in in a little over 8 minutes with traffic. The Megane RS 275 Trophy-R did it in 7:54.36. But that's got a roll cage and racing tires, so it doesn't count.

Looking at the video more carefully, we noticed the Cayman GT4 driver isn't fully committed. For example, he's coasting into some of the corners. There's also a 115 PS power gap between these two, but on many of the straights, the Porsche isn't stretching a lead.

The driver of the Peugeot seems a lot more skilled. He knows the key to speed in the 308 GTi is staying on the boost all the time. He brakes very late and is never flummoxed by the Nurburgring traffic.