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FLYING LAP

Strategy · Timeless

Domain
Strategy
Era
Timeless
Also known as
hot lap, push lap

A flat-out timed lap with the car already up to speed — what a driver sets in qualifying, as opposed to the slower out-lap and in-lap either side of it.

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