The new “Beat the Pro” benchmark then is the Dutch driver’s 1:58.872, with the F1 championship leader beating his colleague to the line by roughly 1.75 seconds.
Of course the best GT Sport drivers in the world won’t find that a particularly difficult time to match. At present the best times on the leaderboard — from the usual suspects like Valerio Gallo, Jose Serrano, Takuma Miyazono, and Igor Fraga — are more than a second clear of this mark.
However, for the rest of us it will prove a sterner test. For comparison, Tsunoda’s time is just on the fringes of the top 2,000, while Verstappen’s is in the top 250 presently.