Alan Claffie (Claff) is an amateur racing driver with 35 recorded laps across 3 vehicles on LapMeta, averaging 11.7 laps per car—extraordinary concentration ratio indicating absolute commitment to mastering three specific platforms. Nearly twelve laps per vehicle builds profound knowledge transcending typical driver-vehicle relationships, revealing nuances impossible to discover through brief exposure. This exceptional focus demonstrates specialist philosophy prioritizing depth over superficial breadth.
His LapMeta data shows testing with 6 laps at Current configuration, 6 laps at Full Course, and 5 laps CCW. The selective 3-vehicle portfolio suggests curated testing balancing comparative education against deep platform understanding. Each car received nearly twelve sessions revealing how tire performance evolves, how brake feel changes with temperature, optimal techniques for specific chassis characteristics, and extracting absolute maximum capability. This depth often allows dedicated amateurs to outperform professionals conducting brief evaluations through intimate vehicle-specific knowledge built via relentless repetition. With 35 laps concentrated across three vehicles averaging nearly 12 laps each, Alan Claffie exemplifies the focused specialist who treats motorsport as pursuit of perfection through systematic development and intimate platform expertise.
This may or may not be the best lap of the day. GPS coming out of the GoPro was sketchy at best and unreliable at worst, so I can't go off of that. The lap timer on the phone occasionally didn't trip at the S/F line either. And I don't have any info from the first session because of the GoPro flakiness and my forgetting to start the lap timer at the start of the session. So we got what we got, my personal best lap and I'm fairly confident that it's a valid time. 2010 Mazda MX-5 on very used Yokohama AO52 tires.