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Source fields and estimated inputs are listed per vehicle.","Null speed gates mean not reached during this 1 km run. Rolling intervals are differences within this standing-start run.","The configured stock top-speed ceiling and the maximum speed achieved within 1 km are different values.","A replay uses these frozen stock inputs with the currently deployed engine. The versioned citation result remains fixed if the engine later changes.","Canonical vehicle-ID order fixes lane assignment. Each lane retains the production simulator’s slight throttle variation; reversing the query does not change this published comparison."]}