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Does talent affect lap time?

Does talent affect lap time? When doing practice for a race, a team with a slower car and worse driving ability stats outperformed me. He has much more talent than my driver, so could this be the cause of it. The conditions were the same

I think yes, from what I know I think that the talent is the raw speed of the pilot

Talent is, based off slightly outdated studies carried out a while ago by experienced player Peter Man, is, on the average track, +0.05s/lap each talent less than 20. So a T20 will be almost a second a lap faster than an equivalent T1 on average.

the gap is only 6

Talent does affect speed, it is the most important stat on a driver in my opinion.