Thanks for the replay which made it easy to reproduce. I have fixed this bug in my version.
It's not really start lag, it's just that for one second, the other cars will not appear to move and are likely to vanish (due to a small mistake in some code I added around that time). It's not really lag, though it does look like it.
Is it possible to invalidate only the EXACT lap with reverse driving, but NOT the NEXT lap?
That will save the ability to warm up tyres freely, but cheater's hotlaps on 2-split tracks will be still impossible.
Look at the XRT@BL1 WR replay. This kind of tyre warming is almost impossible with new HLVC system. So hotlapper have to overheat tyres and then drive slow lap to achieve appropriate temperature. This is only one example.
And, as it was told later, many of the current WR's are not valid hotlaps according to new system. But they are valid according to the system i offered.
AttaHorse, its still no good practice to simply drive the whole way backwards and then forwards again just to heat up your tyres. Try doing that on a regular racetrack, and you will earn a lifetime ban.
Simply drive one lap to warm up your tyres and one for the hotlap. and yes, you will need to adjust your setup for not overheating your tyres. But I think simply increasing your tyre pressure a bit is not this much to do.
With that little neat arrow (triangle) by the "Name", indicating ascending or descending sort, right? Even without that I love the sort feature, well done!
I agree, hotlapping and qualifying should start from the pits. It would be the first step in the direction to make the race setups/management look less arcadey.
I think that with the new marshalls, when pitting having them "be there" would be quite neat, even just for show, so all the pit boxes have marshalls there (user on/off for FPS maybe) then once pit-work is done, the pit guys put their arms up and the front guy "goes away".
Spitballing, but could turn out well, looked quite neat too just doing it with a layout.
Devil: You also don't magically pop up in a car. And the engine doesn't magically start. And the ignition doesn't magically come on. And the car doesn't magically appear in the pits. And you don't magically own several race-cars.