Originally Posted by Mike Rainbird

The problem with timing other people's laps from the pit wall is that you can't see when they are getting held up by slow cars down the back of the circuit, as we were under strict instructions not to overtake down craner, so if you got stuck behind someone after Redgate and they didn't slow right down to let you overtake before Craner, then you were stuck behind them until the back straight .

So saying someone did X.xx is pointless, as you have no idea what sort of lap they had .

I know that in all the sessions I did, I probably had only 6 clear laps in total where I wasn't held up, and sometimes we were in a train for AGES .