2019 Le Mans 24 Hour Prototype Engineering Notebook
At long last I have completed my 2019 Le Mans review! After using my normal process to manipulate the results, primarily for the Amateur driver comparisons, the ambient conditions and their impact on performance looked like it was muddying up the results. How can I compare a driver who spent more time in the car in the heat of the day with one who did their bulk of the time in the cold night hours? To try and help with this I decided to break the race duration up into time blocks similar to what I did for the recent snow race at Spa (to split wet and dry running). In theory this should be able to discretise stints into more similar ambient conditions, allowing for a more direct comparison. These lines in the sand were chosen to be the following: Time Block Name Time Window Day 1 Race Start to 10pm Night 10pm to 6am Happy Hour(s) 6am to 8am Day 2 8am to Race Finish It should be said that every comparison made i