[WEC Race] Sao Paulo 6 Hours 2012

[TF110]

So the track being 4.309 kilometers with Toyota doing 35 laps on average lets say, equates to them doing 150.8 km per stint. Compared to Silverstone's track being 5.891 kilometers and Toyota doing 23 laps on average lets say, equates to them doing 135.4 km per stint. That's an 11.3% increase in fuel economy.

Now the speed at Silverstone per stint, the Toyota was up by 10.1 second over the #1 Audi by it's first pit stop on lap 22 with a total time of 39 minutes. With a 23 lap stint covering about 40:50.0 for it's second run, it was up 18.206 seconds over the #1. So on average for the first 22 laps or 39 minutes the Toyota had an average time of 1:46.36 per lap 1st stint. Their 2nd stint came out to be on average of 1:46.52 per lap 2nd stint. So their first 45 laps came on average of 1:47.7 including the pit stop.

Audi's first 22 laps came out to be an average of 1:46.81 per lap. On lap 45 with the gap to Audi at 18.206 seconds so the average lap including the pit stop for Audi up to lap 45 was 1:48.4.

So a .64% difference in their average times for the first hour and 20 minutes at Silverstone.

Now at Interlagos, Toyota's first pit stop came on lap 33, 46:27.0 into the race. At the end of lap 32 they had a lead of 10.284 seconds on the #1 Audi. So taking away lap 33 from both teams, leads Toyota with a total time of 44:55.231 from 32 laps or an average of about 1:24 per lap to Audi's 1:24.5 per lap. About .59% difference.

In all Toyota seems to have lost no speed advantage over Audi (a miniscule .05% loss), but definitely gained (11%) in fuel efficiency.