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Originally Posted by rwarden
One variable you've not listed is "driver experience" - perhaps intentionally, or not? If you consider youself an expert driver, and have little new to learn, great, this experiment makes sense, but if you are new to road course driving, your best bang for the buck in terms of reducing your laptime is driver training/experience.... just my $0.02...
R Warden
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Unless any of the answers have the condition that the driver is a professional (as in good enough to get paid for his driving and opinion) then the answers are pretty meaningless in any scientific sense - the drivers own learning curve, conditions on the day and lack of consistency / clean data or even reliable data acquisition / laptiming would render the answer akin to butt-dyno stuff at best.
In any case, even with perfect driver etc. the answers to your questions would vary very widely from track to track and day to day e.g. a tight, twisty, slow track would have a very different answer to the lbs or hp per second answer than an oval with an infield. Ditto for a hot day, cold day, damp day etc.
With the greatest respect, this isn't a serious exercise!
All that said, with the goal of at least being a bit helpful, have you checked out the (free)
Bosch Lapsim also discussed here
RaceSim Central