diffuser wrote:henry wrote:
It's more like 23 seconds loss. And I think you need to take the whole race number of laps since you would try to go faster in all stints including the first.
23/56 = 0.4 seconds per lap.
Right, I'm not buying that. Going faster than yourself when everything else is equal, isn't gonna be easy. The opennning laps with the close quarters and interbattling cause slower lap times than the cars are cars are capable of. Plus all the weight from the extra feul means pushing harder comes at a big price tire use wise.
In reality your edge is in not running those 3 x4 lap stints (12 laps) on tires that are at thier worst.
I don't understand what you mean by going faster than yourself. You are trying to go faster in each 3 stop stint than you would in each 2 stop. ( 4 stints versus 3)
Agreed in the first stint there will be 2 or 3 laps which are a bit hectic and you may be prevented from using the capability of a faster tyre, or higher degradation rate. But then that's possibly going to happen in any stint, perhaps more so when you're trying to go faster on a 3 stopper when you may come across slower cars on a 2 stopper.
The objective is to use the tyres to get an optimum stint time. if you want to do that by doing more stints you have to faster lap times at every opportunity but only at the optimum speed to get the tyre to the end of the stint fastest. The difference between optimum lap times for 3 vs 2 stops is 0.4 seconds.
I disagree that you make the difference at the end of the stint when the tyres are at their worst. You make the difference by driving the first part of the stint in such a way that the tyres only reach their worst on the last lap of the stint.
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