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Note they said pulled away on the straights implying that they were on a track where there were corners followed by straights. A car that can really carve a corner will enter the straight with a higher entry speed thus making it very hard for a car slower in the corners to catch or even pull on the corner carver despite having more horsepower because the first several seconds are used at just trying to get up to a matching corner exit speed and then accelerating from there. The new M3 is a heavy car, there is a lot of physics to overcome if the Cayman has carved the corner well before it and it wouldn't surprise me that save for a track with a really long straight the M3 would never catch the Cayman. Certainly this is true in my own track experience when pitted up against M3's, even modified ones.
I don't think they were talking about a standing start 1/4 mile run in which I would expect the new M3 to be faster whereas the Cayman S was slightly faster than the old outgoing M3.
If I remember our Articles section correctly the Cayman S also beat the RS4 as well, again for some of the same reasons.
As far as posting scans of articles, it is a no-no to post the whole thing, if you want to post say the first page or two and a link to the entire article that is usually fine under the fair use clause, otherwise it is a copyright violation. Posting excerpts as you have is typically fine as well.
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