Just playing devils advocate here.
Many people in comments are comparing the Sapphire to the Demon 170, in that they are insinuating the manufacturer provided cars with higher performance for demo/marketing purposes, while the actual delivered customer cars are unable to provide the level of performance advertised. Were any of the 9 flat or sub 9 1/4 mile runs done at the release event performed by customer cars, or demo cars which could have been tweaked slightly to offer better performance?
Also, the previous Hagerty comparison to a Plaid was done with a pre-production Sapphire, so maybe that level of dominance is not realistic to expect from a production model?
Bottom line is we need more data from actual vehicles owned by customers! Get your Dragys out or get to a drag strip and represent!