Topic: Lemons lap counting. . .
Hi All - relative n00b here, as I just finished my 2nd Lemons event at Arse-Freeze Buttonwillow last weekend.
I was looking at some lap data between the top teams and our team, and not only did I see that the top teams are making only two pit stops for 3 drivers per day, but their stops appear to be much faster than ours. For example, the POS Racing team pitted at lap 42, and their "lap time" on the following lap was 5:26, or 3:11 off their fastest pace. Same for lap 92, which registered as a 5:27 lap time, so was 3:12 off their fastest lap.
Conversely, our lap times when we pitted increased by about 8 minutes off our fastest lap, and we timed our pit time from when the car stopped to when it left to be about 5 minutes. Point-being, I'm curious if the transponder system may have missed our laps since we didn't drive past or very-near to S/F when we were pitted. I figure it took us about 45s to drive from pit exit to our pit spot, and another 45s from our pit spot to track entrance. If I add that 1.5 minutes to our pit time of 5 minutes and combine it with an additional lap of 2:30, I get the 8 minutes of total "pit" time.
That can't be the same for every team, because if so, then POS Racing is making 30-40s pit stops including drive in/out, driver change, and fuel: impossible.
Thoughts?