How to rip off flaps affect flight performance?

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My BF 109 F-2 lost both flaps in a dogfight with a P-39N-0, the flaps of the 109 is slow to retract and I didn’t make it in time. The fight then continued, I chased the P-39, I felt it was climbing better than me. How to my rip off flaps affect flight performance? does reduce the climb rate? Speed? Turning and so on?

I thought that at 5,000 km altitude I should have a performance advantage with 109 against P-39, but I didn’t have that feeling. As I said, I lost both flaps, empty holes in both wings.

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The simple real-life answer is it reduces wing surface so it reduces lift, same as other forms of wing damage. It would be interesting to test.

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If it’s an asymmetric rip, it might be because the instructor is compensating for either a yawing or rolling motion causing extra drag or side-slip (and thus drag) on your plane.