I went ahead and encoded the whole session that the fastlap above came from. Spent that whole session chasing down the same red Lotus (well, once he got back in front of me around the end of Lap 4). Lots of data to pick up from it on how and where he was faster than me. Mostly, it seems like he was doing better pushing out of the inner carousel wider and earlier on the throttle, and he was way more gutsy staying in the throttle before, during, and just after The Launch (the little hill):