Not on a road course. Having bigger balls and skill will always beat speed.
You've missed the point completely. I'm not saying driver skill does not play into it. But the car with the fastest average speed always wins by definiton assuming they follow the same track. Assuming same distance, a slower average speed car has never won a race ever. Ever. It defies the laws of mathematics.
The driver has a lot to do with Speed. Let's look at it this way. A drag race both go same distance. If one gets off the line faster he can still win by going slower than the other car by reaction time.
Yes I get that. And based on the slow reaction time, the guy that lost had a slower average speed and lost the race. Every single time. You're mistaking my point for "car performance" with actual real world speed which encompasses every factor including the driver.
Just because he reacted slower doesn't mean he was slower.
As I pointed out, I'm excluding "lane" differences in distance. A quarter mile or 100 mile race, whatever, I said "assuming the same distance" I.e. the starting line to finish line distance.
And as I said in a drag race, which is the same distance. The guy with the best reaction time can still win by being slower.
Wrong because when he is still sitting at the starting line and the race has started he's going zero miles per hour. The clock has started and even when he starts moving, his average speed is very slow. Even if he burns rubber and goes super fast once he gets going, his speed is still determined by the distance divided by time. It is an absolute. It's an equation, assuming the clock starts and it's a fixed distance, the fastest avg speed wins 100% of the time. No exceptions, it's basic math.
This has zero to do with knowledge of racing and everything to do with algebra. I'm sorry I'm not communicating the point sufficiently to see my side of this, because I assure you that if I'm wrong, there are statues of Diophantus, father of algrebra, in Greece that should be knocked down.
I completely get your argument from a theoretical sense but this isn't about Algebra. The fastest car doesn't always win, the fastest driver/team does. A driver who drafts better, finds better lines around the track, makes better moves at the right time, and has a pit crew that's on point will beat a car that is faster but who's driver/team doesn't do those things every single time.
I thought Algebra was first developed in the Middle East, not Greece. That's why its named Al-Gebra. That's what they told me in an SU Course on The History of the Middle East.
Never give up.
The fastest car and the fastest average speed are not always the same thing. A slower car can have a faster average speed. A nitro methane funny car will go over 300mph but would get blasted by a VW jetta on a NASCAR track. Which is the faster car? The Funny car.
You are over-complicating this. The fastest car is the car that went the fastest over the entire course of the race. I get that some cars may be capable of going faster at various intervals of the race and may not win. But if you define it very simply as the time racing vs distance travelled, the car that wins has the fastest calculated speed. It is an absolute and if you make the same assumptions there are no exceptions.
Cars don't win races, drivers do.
