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Lap on the left is by the guy who holds the "world record" on the RSR leaderboard. Lap on the right is my former PB. How did I get his lap? He sent it to me when I contacted him and wondered how he was so quick. He also let me upload a comparison video, which this is.
I'm gonna be honest. When I first noticed his lap time on RSR I was suspecious. His 1st and 3rd sectors were amazing, but his 2nd sector was sublime too. With low wings it's definitely possible to match his S1. With normal Spa wings, his S2 is beatable, but you need to be incredibly on it. His last sector is probably the craziest. of course he's quick on the straight from running low wing (lowest according to him) but he's way, way quicker than anybody else in the last chicane. With the lowest wings.
But, I had a hope. Maybe he had found something new (well exploit) in the setup, or maybe he was just absolutely next level alien from a distant galaxy.
Then I saw the lap.
Well, it's not that great, when you look at the details. Take a look at the braking for T1. He's relatively far from the edge of the track when turning in. If you look at any fast lap from Spa on KZbin (Husqu, Mikeblast, Albi, myself etc) you'll see how we are all almost touching the grass to make the entry as wide as possible.
Next you can look at how much track he's using at Raidillon. He's not even touching the kerb! Meanwhile the rest of us touch that kerb with the right wheels to make the first sector as short as possible... In general he takes a very long line in S1, probably costing him around 1 tenth. He's also very conservative with track limits in general. Every other fast time is much more on the edge when it comes to track limits.
What does this mean? Well, it means he has a lot more time in hand. He's not pushing.
Ok, he can go faster. How does that mean he's cheating? It doesn't. It's part of a bigger picture through. Let's look at minimum speeds in a couple of corners. Let's take Bruxelles first. His minimum speed is almost 120kmh, which is faster than any lap I've ever seen before. But what's really impressive is short time he spends at that speed, and how hard he is able to accelerate from there. He also has no issue on the exit, and is able to stay quite far to the right on the track.
Next corner you should look at is the bus stop. Here it's more of the same story, but now the speed is even crazier. On the final part of the bus stop his minimum speed is almost 90kmh. Nobody gets remotely close to this, we're talking over 10% faster than the next fastest I've ever seen. That is not possible without some funkyness going on, especially not when you are running the lowest aero possible, which he claimed he did (also makes sense when you look at the top speed).
Still not convinced? Well, when he set this PB he had set his previous PB 15 minutes prior. That's not crazy. What's crazy is that from his previous PB he shaved off 1,1 seconds in 15 minutes!! Here is the proof: www.radiators-c...
He also only logged 355km on RSR to set this lap. Husqu, who has the legit WR, as an absolute alien and in general super good guy, has logged 30000km. And he's half a second off this guy.
When I first uploaded this video it was just called a lap comparison, yet some comments did point out the funkyness of his lap. When that happened he contacted me. He told me it was a big blow to him, and wanted me to unlink his channel from the description. I did as he asked. But that honestly just confirmed my thoughts. If you're legit, and people accuse you of cheating you've won. That stuff is pretty amazing, it means whoever is accusing you have completely given up on ever beating you. Though I can imagine if you actually cheated, it might not feel so good...
So, how did he cheat? I suspect he played with some files to give himself more grip. I did invite him on multiple occasions to join me and my buddies to race online. Yet he always declined for various reasons. Maybe he was scared about failing on checksum when joining?
Update: I went back and watched the full replay he sent. I did find something I had overlooked previously. On the replay he sent, he included the final part of his previous lap, which he abandoned. I just assumed he had made a mistake and wanted to cool the tyres a bit, but on closer inspection the lap he was on was a flyer. If you pause it, before he backs off, you can see he's 3-4 tenths faster than his 38.1 lap! So why would he quit such a lap? Well, I think it was because it would be way too suspesciuous if he dropped a 37.9 or whatever, which would put him 6-7 tenths ahead of number 2, which also has a super fishy time when you look at the sectors. Once again showing that he is not even pushin. Wanna see for yourself? Here is the replay: • Shuffy full replay