But then his lap times would have fluctuated greatly wouldn't they. From what I have read they didn't. The FIA state that they were consistently above those levels too which suggests it wasn't just at patches. As I have said, I have little clue about it all, just trying to make sense of it all.If he'd driven the whole race with that fuel flow, yes. I'm assuming that high fuel flow was just at times, like when he got told to turn the engine up.