Stacks,
Why not add to the discussion by providing some facts or data.
I am quite sure if Wiki had shown the Lightning to be superior there would be no squawking from the Gallery.
Others had compared the Lightning to the 102 and 106......I was merely adding some information about them from sources found on the internet.
The Lightning may have been a fast, climbed like a raped ape, but so did a lot of other aircraft of its time and since.
I shall remind you that Brit isn't necessarily best always....sometimes other nations Air Forces and Aircraft builders get it right too.
The Soviets set a few records you might remember.