Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-3157402-20190708095319/@comment-26388545-20190708161943

In the end the numbers are fair from what I've seen. As was said, your start to finish time is not hurt. It's just a time trial with other people there. It's best to just do you best race and not focus on the other cars much.

The lag distance varies for each track, since speed at the finish line varies. It's often 20m for me, but sometimes it's closer to 30m at Autodromo for example.

EXAMPLE Lets say I cross the line at 350 kph with latency of 300 ms (milliseconds):

350 kph x 1000 / 60 / 60 = 97.22 m/s (metre's per second)

97.22 X 0.3 (300 milliseconds) = 29.166m

Anything less than 29m and I actually lose.

Unfortunately this exact reason is why Indy Speedway got removed. In that race you could finish 1st on screen, but 5th in reality at times. It was bad on weeks where you could just stay flat out. Start in 5th or less and you could only win if someone else messed up. It was good on weeks that involved braking. I did very good there, so that's why I miss it! ;-)