Some of you guys may be able to help me out with this as I'm a little puzzled.

Is there actually any advantage to picking a high speed craft? I've just done two side-by-side comparisons of a sprint between HD FEISAR and Fury Icaras over short distances at full speed on Venom and Phantom, and both times were almost dead heats with the Icaras winning by only a fraction of a nose!

I assume the stat takes other factors into account beyond just top speed? As even over the course of a whole race I can't see this making any real impact