This thread got me thinking:
https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/109766-Analysis-of-WR-and-League-race-times-to-determine-performance-factors

Would it be possible to get a csv/text dump of the hotlap database?
Something like:
uploaddate;racer;track;car;split1;split2;laptime

It might make for some interesting statistics that are not on LFS-world.
(longest standing WR, which car in GTR class has the most WR's, which combo has closest Top 10 times etc)

The longest standing WRs top 100 can be viewed here: https://www.lfsworld.net/?win=hotlaps&whichTab=wrs&lswrl=1

all GTR cars have the same amount of WRs, since they're tracked separately

but i'm pretty sure the FZ is the fastest one overall

Well, the closest thing we have to retrieve stats is PubStat, but it has no csv output, so you'd need to convert it to csv if that is necessary. It supports JSON, PHP serialized and XML outputs, though. https://www.lfs.net/forum/thread/14480 Theoretically, you could retrieve the whole hotlap database for each track/car combo, then analyse them further.

My spaghetti code to compare user's PB with WR in percent.

Usage
You need to generate your pubstat key here: http://www.lfsworld.net/?win=settings&whichTab=pubstat

Edit 2025-04-15: replaced link to sorting script to downloaded local file