Here is the video I referred to. I find this guy’s analysis on other matters quite interesting. He admits there isn’t a lot of hard facts out there regarding “what destroyed the most armor?” another otherwise, I have not investigated this particular question in detail
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5DcY8TmOpA
Patton didn’t seem all that worried about destroying armor. He wanted to cut through to the rear wherever possible. I may be wrong about that, but he’d gain ground in dozens of miles a day.