Hmmm... I'm not sure about the way they scored that first lap. Something weird there... we'll have to go back and look at the data acquisition.
As far as the final lap times go, I think that can be attributed to Steve's celebration prior to crossing the start/finish. In the first race he sat up and patted the bike on it's tail. The bike was nowhere near out of juice. Resting voltage after the race was 3.7x volts per cell, which is the nominal voltage, meaning we were still running in the "meat" of the battery's voltage curve. This was already a "short" race for the bike, and dropping one lap just made it even easier on the battery.
Yeah... I am getting quite tired of seeing extra-ordinary performance figures for some of these bikes backed up by rather ordinary results (or none at all). The key to a good performing bike is the best power-to-weight within the limits of the rules (That's 250kg Mission, Lightning, and Motocsyzs!) and having a well balanced and integrated system.
