10 laps each track with best lap time. Same car, same track conditions. 0 drivatars.
MONZA FULL ALT
Standing start - 2:02:391
Rolling start - 1:59:959
INDY GP
Standing start - 1:42:983
Rolling start-1:41:265
STADTPLATZ
Standing start- 1:50:748
Rolling start - 1:49:067
How can this be?
What car?
not sure what the problem is. Rolling starts are going to be quicker, because the car is already in motion as opposed to standing still. That’s to do with inertia, friction and a few other factors. However, unless you did both laps exactly the same aside from the start of course, it’s not a very accurate measure. You could have lost/gained fractions of a second on each and every corner between the start and finish.
However, without explaining exactly what the question is, there’s not really an answer…
Actually I tell a lie, the answer is 42
I think they are pointing towards the fact they they are only around a second faster on the rolling starts as opposed to the standing starts, which is a very small margin. The fact that they note the tests where done over a period of 10 laps raises some questions however, such as what car they was in, was it stock, homologated or custom built/tuned. What assists where they using. Most importantly though, on the 10 laps for a standing start, was each lap started from a stand still, or where the subsequent laps flying laps. I would assume all where from a standstill, given the times. But I would also assume that on most tracks, there should be more than a second difference from a standard enforced rolling start and a standing lap. That gap should be bigger if the rolling starts where done manually via normal flying laps.
So some more information is really required to if there is something strange happening or not, so I do not thing anyone can give a op a reasonable answer over the basic one of ‘rolling starts will incur a faster first lap time over a 1 lap from a standing start’.
Call me a spelling nazi but I never understood why people would type “where”, as opposed to “were”, they don’t really sound the same and typing “were” is actually faster (one letter less)…
For people that don’t use English as a first language it’s quite a common mistake, especially as English is so confusing. It could of course have just been that someone didn’t know the difference, or just got confused, had a brain fart, or anything else for that matter, but as there are a number of people on this forum that don’t speak English as a first language, most of us just let this sort of stuff slide… There’s always one though…
Policing the internet for spelling and grammatical errors is a fool’s folly,
Nah I was just curious. I usually don’t mind spelling and grammtical mistakes because I make them all the time…
Well for me it is more down to the fact I am dyslexic, so I am quite prone to mixing up letters while writing/typing. So words that are somewhat similar, such as where/were and there/there/their get mixed up quite a lot; and I tend not to notice I have done so. I also mess up with words that end in ‘ke’ and ‘ck’, and am always using ‘b’ in place of ‘d’ and vice versa. Not really something I can help, and usually read what I type out a few times before I post it up; and even read it a couple more times after just to make sure. Unfortunately I still miss things some times.
Just ignore people like that lalyrn … everybody else does 
Also, the OP said they were picking the best lap from 10 laps, so the standing start vs rolling start shouldn’t make a difference, it’s possibly/probably just coincidence that their lap time was better from a rolling start, especially if they did 10 laps from a standing start then did the rolling start straight after, because they’ve already had 10 laps to get used to the car and the track before the run. There are far too many variables to take into consideration, so I doubt anyone will really be able to give a definitive answer one way or another.
Mainly because of human natuer if you want to test this set Brakes to Assisted Steering to Super easy TC On and then start the race all you do is hold down the trigger and let the Test driver do the laps.
I use this method when doing tunes as the better I get the tune the faster the lap. As the Auto Driver is very consent with her lap times.
Depends on the class, any class R and above should not be having these issues
rolling start is not really better than standing by much in those classes
With a flying start I am regularly 4-5 seconds quicker than I was from a standing start, on the tracks that have a long front straight (Leguna Seca or Indy), on the shorter tracks like the Mugello School Circuit with the large right hand corner immediately after the start finish line it won’t make as large of a difference. I have never checked the time difference between standing start and rolling start, but 1-2 seconds seems pretty standard.
My only thought is with the standing start you don’t start right at the start/finish line, so if your car has really good acceleration you are moving faster than the governed rolling start speed at the line.
My bad, thought it was obvious what the question was. (well, it was to me)
My question is how can I get better lap times from a rolling start vs a standing start over the course of the race?
I’m using 69 camaro, custom tuned. I’ve used this particular car in over 1000 races and logged probably over 15,000 laps over all the tracks and variations. (not bragging just background info)
So I know this car better than myself, almost.
During the course of running the mentioned races no changes were made to the tuning of the car or to the assists that were used.
Each 10 laps were run continuous. Not ten 1 lap races. So 9 laps of each race was pushing the car for all it was worth with lap times within about 2 tenths of a second of the fastest lap.
I first noticed the difference on Monza Alt track. It doesn’t make sense to me how I can run consistent ~2:02 laps from a standing start while running ~2:00 laps from a running start.
That’s strange. I have to test this myself.
See? Told ya ;0) I’d test it myself, but my lap times are consistently inconsistent…
Or inconsistently consistent?? And btw my camaro is up to B class.
Huiop2 if you would post your findings it would be appreciated. I have done a couple other tracks and it’s still the same, faster with rolling starts.