Oh Petripoodle, he's talking about decent drivers, your example is only relevent if im the case subject, where the average lap time would be the 1 clean lap i manage to do
Sasaquatch, if you've taken both those courses then surely you'd have known the probability in people agreeing with you would be preeeeetty slim
2 pops if im right, big guy :bullwhip:
I'd say 105% is probably a little too wide, 102% might actually be more on the money. On a 2m15sec lap, to have a 2.7sec (+2%) spread from fueled up to running on fumes is about right, perhaps a tiny bit more for heavy traffic on full fuel. That covers say 2:14.3 through to 2:17.0 which covers 3ID's race with some wiggle room.
It should cover what the driver is capable of achieving over a stint, while dropping the poor laps which occured due to issues. It cant be 100% accurate, but i'd say its a fair representation and at the standard were talking about in MoE, it shouldnt be an issue where lap times are wildly different unless something has caused it, those being freak occurances and not the norm.
Ignoring driver errors obviously means it doesnt make these results the ultimate deciding factor of who's faster/better, but the race results do a fairly good job of factoring in that.
But I wouldnt argue these results arent accurate, simply because you only have to look at the official results and consider how anyone who suffers a disconnection or gets taken out, they have to have that included on their official result, so is the official results an accurate measurement of events? Hardly.
Sasa, stick up one for nfinity GT1, i know they spent 80% of the race holding hands with F1rst (though a lap down after their disco just after the 1hr mark) im guessing the results would look similar. We'll perhaps leave the GT2 car out of this