[WEC Race] 2012 Six Hours of Fuji

[gwyllion]

Originally Posted by Trussers

For the record (and just to show that I'm paying attention, gwyllion), the pit in - pit out distance at Fuji is 467m and at Interlagos is 384m. Therefore an additional 83m at 60kph - adds around 5s to the pit stop time.

40 sec over 6 hours means 0.166 sec per lap.

On Wednesday Lotterer did a double stint. So you can see exactly how long a fuel stop including pit in and pit out takes.

In http://www.dailysportscar.com/viewAr...D2E10C85AFF5A2 Vasselon explained that the tipping point is around 0.2 sec per lap.

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!