Well, if we can do 40 laps on R3s but only 20 on R2s, who's to say what we'd do. Theres a far bigger picture to look at that what it can do at its emptiest point when the tyres are at their thinnest. So yes, after playing more with the setup we've got it going over a second faster when its on petrol fumes and tyres that only Mclaren would tell their driver they had plenty left on them, keep going.
It seems were left with 2 options, we run R3s, have slower laptimes but go further into the race, but run laptimes & stints comparable to the FXR (which is using R3s also) although the car handles like crap.
Or
We run R2's, run faster times but need to pit much more frequently, and because some people see nothing more than its fastest laptime people demand the XRR gets penalised with weight/restrictions because of it.
So, does that mean because of some peoples narrow-minded take on things we are forced to run an R3 setup just so that the times are comparable? to keep everyone happy? If you put R2's on im betting your laptimes would be considerably faster too, but then i know you cant do that, because you wont get a decent stint out of the tyres. But you dont hear us complaining that the only reason your slower is because you've got crap tyres on do you.
As Sidi says, theres more than just ONE fast lap at the end of a stint to take into consideration, and to add onto Sidi's list of variables, i'd like to a big one too, who's to say your drivers are equal to ours?? Maybe if we jumped into the FXR we'd hammer your times in that too? What about setups? Maybe we've spent more time finding a setup that works, maybe you havent hit upon a decent one yet, afterall last week we were struggling to do low 2:50's and now were well into the 2:49's, surely you cant be arrogant enough to know you've nailed the setup & track and you've reached your limit and couldnt possibly close the gap down further.
So, with different drivers in different cars, driving setups at an unknown stage of developement, using different tyre compounds, running different fuel/lap stints, and drivers who've put plenty of hours into practicing before & after Y, is it fair to base everything on who's doing what laptimes?
Maybe the other teams in the FXR are putting in considerably faster times than you guys are doing, i know CoRe were doing faster laps than we were when we did a session with them about a week ago, so maybe its not just the cars.
I'd say that every other night since patch Y came out, we've done 2hrs practice on the combo, we'd also done plenty before Y (I spent the time the others were doing Westhill practicing for Aston GP! time partly wasted) so i dont see why our dedication to do well and be the fastest means everyone else should be given an easy ride and have their cars made faster so they can keep up.
Im all for balancing things out, but knowing how much work we've put into preperation for this round (as with all others) and not knowing how much/little others have put into it, then i'll remain sceptical about how things look at face value, and if need be i'll grab one of our non-participating members and ask them to do a stint or 2 with your current setup and see how he gets on with it, should help ensure that the FXR receives a fair balancing against the XRR, afterall we certainly wouldnt ask him to sandbag so he should produce results we cant dispute and nor could you, right?
