Time Trials

I took the Carrera Audi R18 and the Audi Safety Car, trued the tires, cleaned, oiled and greased the cars. As a test track I used a crossover-8 with extended straights.

All R-1 turns. The Straightaway is 6 pieces, the Overpass is 3 pieces and the Back Straight is 3 pieces. 

I don't have any form of a lap counter, so I had to improvise. I ran each car on the inside lane for two tests each; one 5-minutes and three 1-minute. I counted laps manually and used a clock timer counting down. Primitive, I know.

Results:
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R18 5 MINUTES
WEIGHT: 96.4gr

LAPS: 90

DE-SLOTS: 5

SAFETY CAR 5 MINUTES
WEIGHT: 90.5gr

LAPS: 90

DE-SLOTS: 3

By the way the cars ran, I never would have expected them to reach the exact same lap. The R18 went off a lot more, but was considerably faster on the track, so it made up for it. The Safety Car was running at its fastest the entire time, and while it has better braking, it wasn't enough to get it the win. WINNER: R18

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R18 1 MINUTE

LAPS: 20

DE-SLOTS: 0

LAPS: 19

DE-SLOTS: 1

LAPS: 21

DE-SLOTS: 0

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SAFETY CAR 1 MINUTE

LAPS: 15

DE-SLOTS: 3

LAPS: 17

DE-SLOTS: 2

LAPS:  19

DE-SLOTS: 2

This was more like I expected. I treated it as more of a sprint than the 5-minute marathon was, and while I didn't have to change my driving style much for the R18, the Safety Car clearly couldn't handle the extra push, although it made a noble attempt at the end. It's far too wiggly. Had it behaved and not gone off twice in the last 1 minute heat, it likely would have won. WINNER [by a country mile]: R18

UPDATE: I have since received a Slot.it SCP-1 controller, and will be doing all time trials from here on out with that. That renders this test now obsolete.