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Originally Posted by Ospi
A single bonzai lap doesn't say much though, you need to consider averages correctly if you want to build useful data, for example best 5 lap avg, 10 lap avg, 30 lap avg etc which filters out unreliable data which can be extremely contextual.
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You need to consider average lap data when trying to account for exactly which matters affected race performance, not when you're trying to gauge how close the BoP actually is.
The outright top speed over a single lap at the limit speaks VERY loudly about how close the BoP is. If a car can be within 0.1s of the next car over a single lap, then the cars are very reasonably balanced.
But if the BoP is bad, then the slower cars will never be close to the leaders at all. Not over one lap, two laps, five laps, or whatever you want to count. The absolute fastest race laps of all the cars over the weekend speaks the loudest over whether or not the BoP is close enough than any average speeds over multiple laps can. There are too many variable effect things over multiple laps, but the fastest lap can be taken as an example of the potential maximum performance of the car.