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Originally Posted by carbsmith
That's decently reasoned for 5.5s, anyways. Although my impression was Rebellion was not pushing at all in the second half. Not sure about that gap after 2 hours comparison though, it feels like pit stops and/or safety cars must be skewing that. That's one thing in general, back around 2000 you would have had a number of single train safety cars that would be saving the chasers laps compared to the new procedures.
Anyways the privateers were never promised a 0.5s/lap gap in traffic across a full stint so it's a bit of a moot point.
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That's a good point, and why the 0.5 seconds they were promised was not as big a death sentence as it seemed. All it would take is one bad lap in traffic, one slow zone and the gap could be made up. Because of SZ and SCs effect when teams pit, you could 'reset' the 1 lap fuel advantage Toyota would have by a SZ forcing Rebellion to pit 3 laps early, and Toyota pitting, lets say, 6 laps early. Then it balances it out.