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Originally Posted by crmalcolm
Yes - Butcher's best time was set on his first flying (legitimate) lap, so everything else through the session was slower. His 2nd and 3rd best times would have been back of the grid stuff. Sutton's times as the session progressed were closer to his best than Butcher's were to his.
I'm not saying Sutton didn't get slower in his later laps - just that he is not the only one who had the same drop in performance.
It's also shortsighted to focus on the amount of laps completed - the RWD cars tend to complete a second lap after their pit-out to bring the tyres up to temp, whereas the FWD cars get theirs up on the first time round.
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Sutton's times were way off his fastest time. Butcher only set two "flying" laps after his fastest, the rest were in laps or out laps. One time was 2.3 seconds off the other was 1.7 seconds off. Sutton however set 3 "flying laps" after his fastest, two of which they did show online and were very scrappy, those three times were 3+, 4+ and 5+ seconds over his fastest time.
RWD cars stay out after there first lap, as they already have heat in the tyres, the fwd cars have an out lap, returning straight back to the pits to have the wheels swapped front to back, then another outlap then they start attempting to set their times.