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What was interesting is that Paul won flying with some of the slowest speeds. Watching his speeds at the interim times he was sometimes 40 kts slower then some of the guys tearing through the course. There was definitely 2 trains of thought. One was fast and wide the other was tight and slower. Tight and slower won this one. The next race may be wide open and the fastest plane may win. It will be interesting to see if this ever develops like NASCAR where they have different planes for different tracks.
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It would be interesting to see a map of the path flown vs speeds...
But even with a tight course, a drag reduction has merit... and unfortunately there is the constraint that pilots can only take so many "G's".... I am sure the course could be analytically optimized.
All I can say though... is once.. (one time only) I did 4.5 positive g's... it is uncomfortable.. I don't need to do that again!!!
And these guys are at 10 G's!!! WOW!!