I often get that feeling during a TT - @#$%@#$@#% that would have been sweet in speed lap!! nooooooo

Like I said before I learn/improve much faster through TT for some reason. I tend to pay much more attention to the track in TT than I do in SL. Any revelation that I have tends to be during a TT session, at which point I will try to perfect the technique in speed lap. I'm confused
I shall try to explain why...might urn out to be a fail but meh, at least I'll be on topic for once

With SL I will always try to improve my time by doing what I think to be the fastest way around the track - If I mess up I just BSB () back to the start line --> rinse, repeat.
Obviously with SL the start is very important and can lose you a lot of time (and some are v easy to mess up). This, coupled with what I said above makes it very hard to follow your ghost in real time so it's harder to tell which lines are faster: if you're behind, ditch the lap, if you mess the start, ditch the lap ---> no imrovement.
In TT on the other hand, you can follow/run like fury from your ghost for 5 laps straight in real time so it's easier to tell where you make up/lose time in a lap. You also have more opportunity to make up lost time so you will be less inclined to restart 1/2 way through (of course the 1st lap has to be good but you see what i mean).
In TT you are constantly trying to go as fast as you can but nobody (except elois and bot) is 100% consistent so sometimes if you are behind you will discover a line that is faster than your normal SL line or a line that makes a BR much easier etc...

I hope this made some kind of sense, I was kinda making it up as I went along...Maybe I'll edit it later on.

At the end of the day (yes I am a premiership footballer ) I like both modes.
I wonder if anyone else does things the same as me? Let's see