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2019 FIA WEC 6 Hours of Spa - Engineering Notebook

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Unfortunately, this one has taken a bit longer after the race to complete, mostly due to the time taken to thaw after returning from the circuit!  The 2019 6H of Spa will be remembered for the weather, yo-yoing between sun, snow, sleet, hail, rain and more snow, and thus I have split results where required into wet and dry sections. Sure, the precipitation was varying several times with warming sun between, but the track itself was much more consistent with respect to how long it would take to dry. For example, there was a sunny period but still with a slow track due to it not drying quickly before the next downpour. The wet and dry split was chosen as follows, shown in time elapsed. Wet from 00:04 to 01:25 and 03:22 until the end. Other times outside this are set to dry. The main reason for this split is to see which cars could be quick in the rain vs being quick in the dry; showing best laps will only have the dry ones. Another reason was thinking that I could compare Ams that d