Chris
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Yeah, I'm kind of hoping that it will all equal itself out when the event comes around, because when I saw you guys were doing like 1:30's I was likeI must say, the difference in time when actually practising in race conditions is extreme around Monza with these cars.
My best hotlap (so optimum track, quali tyres, 10L of fuel, 100% boost, no engine limitation, no damage and a setup to go with it) is a 1:28.9. This amount of power kills the engine just before Ascari on an outlap with damage on.
By comparison, I can barely scrape into the 1:37's while practising in race conditions (green track, medium tyres, a liberal 100L of fuel, 60% boost, 96% engine limit, damage on and a vastly different setup to above).
9 seconds difference. I guess being over 30 kph slower in a straight line at the top of 6th gear might be an explanation to some of that haha. Still though, it's like driving two vastly different cars. It's quite the challenge to master both the qualifying-spec 98T and the race-spec 98T, and considering the amount of time I've driven the car this week, it's been one I've enjoyed.
I've literally only been practicing in race conditions.
Hopefully it'll pay off