Talk:Project Impulse (v5.5.0)/@comment-26994614-20170908154201/@comment-28194184-20170908172436

In general, the first lap of any race is going to be everyone's slowest lap because of the starting speed of 0 mph(kph). Crossing the  start/ finish line to start lap 2 (and any additional) starts those laps off with speed. With this in mind...

When you win a 2-lap race, the ONLY driver who records 2 lap times is you. mintCrystal only was credited with the lap time from lap 1. Then FM (rightfully so) applies some Monkey math to account for the remaining distance mintCrystal has to cover to get to the finish line - something about average speed, or total race time divided by distance covered times total race distance). So mintCrystal is given a TOTAL time, but doesn't really have a second-lap time. They could "easily" fix this by subtracting all recorded lap times from their mathematically derived final time and dividing by the number of laps not finished.

Last - a 2-lap race is about the only time you'll see this discrepancy, because when the lap count > 2, all but the last one get credited to the bot's account.

Happy Racing!