I put together the times from all sessions this week to find out what the distribution of the lap times is. Maybe this gives a proper guess of what speed the cars can do in the race.
The histograms show how many laps were done in each class, 18 on the horizontal axis means a lap time below 3:18min...
According to the numbers and pictures below, Porsche has an advantage of ~7 tenths over the Audi and over 3 seconds over Toyota.
The numbers(only times below 3:35min(3:55min for the Nissan) were considered for the calculations).
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Car Average Median StdDev
Toyota #1 27,769 27,415 2,568
Toyota #2 28,315 28,161 2,593
Audi #7 25,221 24,626 3,085
Audi #8 25,831 25,174 3,100
Audi #9 25,939 25,440 3,392
Porsche #17 25,339 24,843 3,690
Porsche #18 25,139 24,404 3,147
Porsche #19 24,142 23,728 2,606
Nissan #22 43,727 43,985 3,213
All Toyotas 28,019 27,606 2,583
All Audis 25,642 24,968 3,197
All Porsches 24,879 24,290 3,197
The histograms(different horizontal axis for the Nissan).
