Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-28401107-20160719141808/@comment-25956839-20160724082925

I ran an experiment Dec last year, as long as the car takes no damage the performance is the same throughout the race:

I've run an experiment for you, I run the Toyota TS040 upgraded with R$ upgrades only, with everything high and on. I noted the top speed down the first straight and the lap times, trying to run as consistent a lap as I could:

Lap, top MPH, lap time

1. 241 mph 3:17

2. 242 mph 3:11

3. 241 mph 3:11

4. 241 mph 3:11 - started to see 911 back markers

5. 241 mph 3:11

6. 242 mph 3:11

7. 241 mph 3:11 - started to see LMP1 back markers

8. 241 mph 3:11

9. 241 mph 3:12 - back marker slowed me in the last chicane

10. 242 mph 3:11 - lapped 2nd Propeller Factory the beginning of the lap.

Fastest lap 3:11.006 (I think this was the last lap!), total 32:01, 4 CRB penalties, R$ -199, -8, -47, -97. I had to cut the corner a few times to avoid bots and I scraped the side of one.

1st 32:01 v 35:53 Propeller Factory.

I think this answers your question, if a very clean race is run and other bots aren't tangled with, the car isn't degraded in race. It is post race.