"🎙 What is clean air pace in Formula 1?🏎💨When we talk about clean air pace, we’re referring to a driver’s true performance when not affected by the “dirty air” coming off the car ahead. 👉That’s why clean air pace gives us the clearest view of a driver’s pure and consistent speed, without external disturbances such as traffic. 📊 For fair and accurate comparisons, we standardise several factors:Only laps on the same tyre compound (soft, medium, or hard) are compared. Obviously, there may be many external factors that we are unaware of that can influence a driver's performance, such as strategy or not needing to push to the maximum in a stint. Therefore, we try to carefully evaluate each driver in order to avoid including laps that are not representative"Methodology from the source