“We had confirmation from Nurburgring officials that Tesla had not contacted them about track time” is not enough to say this was done on a whim. It is just as easy to imagine that they were waiting for Porsche to announce their Nurburgring time before giving any public indication that they intended to go there. Tesla…

I’m not sure a Tweet declaring “Model S on Nurburgring next week” (which is exactly when the car arrived and began track testing) provides enough information to talk about the level of planning that went into this effort from Tesla.