Golf GTI Scale-Electric Flash Game

By way of promoting the new Golf GTI, Volkswagen have produced a flash game at the GTI Project website - racing a miniature red Golf around a scale-elecric track. It's actually quite good - it uses live action video for the track and cut-scenes, is well produced and fun to play. Morish, even. It was novel to play a driving game with only one dimension of control.

You can play for time or join/start a group to play competitively. The premise of the rankings is that you can win a Golf GTI to drive for three months. Consecutively, one would guess.

For pure geekery I'd be interested in studying the game's physics model. I tend to wipe out quite a bit, if one were to disassemble the game it should be possible to work out the maximum speed at every point on the track and then using the game's values for acceleration and drag find the fastest possible time. It's probably different for each lap (you don't start from 0 except on the first lap, which will change the optimal pattern of acceleration for the next lap, which will feed forward into the next and so on). I'd like to know the fastest lap time possible in this game universe, I'm certainly not achieving it.

Link: Play Here. Have Fun.