Is Milka really that bad?

A reader asks, Am I reading the timing results correctly? In Friday testing the gap between Milka and P18 is greater than the time that separates the entire rest of the field?

The spread between P1 and P18 is reported as 0.5539 sec, and the spread between P18 and P19 is 0.6111 sec. At first I thought she must have had a mechanical problem, but she got 80 laps in!

Is the IRL really getting that much buzz out of her participation? What happen to the good old days when they'd black flag you if you couldn't keep up? Somebody's going to get hurt with her out there. Bill Gerken