Talk:Lotus Exige 360 Cup Championship/@comment-24.90.157.160-20160714150102/@comment-27123099-20160714205047

RR3G'hamO is right, this is completely normal behavior. The way they calculate the lap times when you quit the race early is pretty basic. It essentially looks at how long it's taken the bots to get to where they are at that point and then assumes the same pace for the rest of the race. For instance, if you quit halfway through the 1st lap, the total race time calculated is going to be much longer since the 1st lap is generally going to be your slowest since it's a standing start.

Because of this quirk, whenever I'm utilizing quit-restart to slow the bots, I generally try to quit at about the same point in the race (usually about 10sec in) so that I can more accurately compare the figures I see. Plus, I don't expect these times to reflect actual race times, but I do use them to compare to each other as I continue to quit-restart. The trend will be for the times to increase and when the times level out (or sometimes decrease again), then I know I've gone about as far as I can with the bot management.

That said, I can't say 100% that this is how the calculations work, but based on my experience and input from other players as well, this seems to be the agreed-upon theory anyhow.