Originally Posted by plynchy
Take my saff (please

) it's running stg 1, and goes round corners OK ish for what it is, if I decide to stg 3 it, it won't get round the corners any faster at all, but it will exit them quicker, probably a lot more sideways than it does now.

Okay, but if it's exiting sideways, in theory, that's slower.
If you were to radar trap the exit point of a corner, would the more powerful car be travelling faster at that point, assuming everything else bar engine power is equal?