Talk:Veyron Community Challenge/@comment-28169398-20171016234723/@comment-28169398-20171017001243

Interesting observation. 10-laps of Brands Hatch unservced, I was pretty much able to lap _TheFreak_ each race (+2km). He was usually the second hardest bot behind MerryGold, but it seemed like every race the number 2 car and the number 22 car on the grid always seemed to pass the pole sitter. When MerryGold was paired with Jim Bling, I was just barely missed lapping her (for some reason I think of MerryGold and MintCrystal as women drivers)....

The interesting observation came after a few races at Melbourne. I ran another 10-Lap race at Brands Hatch and drew Existence and The-Brioche 1 and 2. In ten laps I was able to lap The_Brioche twice (+4km).

There are probably two things at work here. 1st, Existence and The_Brioche are slower bots than MerryGold and _TheFreak_, but also, the back markers are much slower with Existence on the pole than with MerryGold on the pole. The_Brioche and Existence get held up sooner and more often by traffic than _TheFreak_ and MerryGold. This usually won't play out that much at Le Mans, but on short tracks with a lot of laps, you are going to have a much greater advantabe over the best bots when the field is also slow, because the field is slow.