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"In Q3, when Lando tries to squeeze a few more milliseconds out of the car, the car doesn't respond as he expects," Stella said.

Clearly, when Max elevates the game so much, you need to nail laps in qualifying and you need to bring home any possible millisecond.

But you also need gut feel; the instinct to read a situation and grab a moment, all in milliseconds.

And by the time that the conscious recognition of that has happened, which is around 300 milliseconds … Then the onset latency should be at least that amount of time, if not even more.”

Although these time changes are only estimated to be a matter of milliseconds a year, they can accumulate over eons.