In order to make up for the time of a late splash and dash, you don't need "considerably faster pace".
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And that is the key, while there are those that look at the need to take a splash at the end of the race and see it as a disaster, we look at the time it takes to get a little fuel and convert that time into what would be require earlier in the race as a reduction in pace to make it unnecessary to take that stop.
The difference across the six hours is 0.2 seconds per lap – Anything we do to reduce pace to secure the need not to take a splash cannot cost us more than 0.2 seconds per lap as it would, over the full distance be a less efficient use of the time available!
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source:
http://www.dailysportscar.com/viewAr...D2E10C85AFF5A2
BTW the FIA has defined the same four hybrid activation zones as in 2012:
http://www.fia.com/sites/default/fil...06-LMP1-HY.pdf