  A noteworthy physical dependence of the hysteresis losses with the axial
winding misalignment of superconducting racetrack coils made with commercial
\textcolor{black}{Second Generation High Temperature Superconducting (2G-HTS)}
tapes is reported. A comprehensive study on the influence of the turn-to-turn
misalignment factor on the local electromagnetic properties of individual
turns, is presented by considering six different coil arrangements and ten
amplitudes for the applied alternating transport current, $I_{a}$, together
with an experimentally determined function for the magneto-angular anisotropy
properties of the critical current density, $J_{c}(B,\theta)$, across the
superconducting tape. It has been found that for moderate to low applied
currents $I_{a} \leq 0.6~I_{c0}$, with $I_{c0}$ the self-field critical current
of individual tapes, the resulting hysteretic losses under extreme winding
deformations can lead to an increase in the energy losses of up to $25\%$ the
losses generated by a perfectly wound coil. High level meshing considerations
have been applied in order to get a realistic account of the local and global
electromagnetic properties of racetrack coils, .... Our findings can be used as
a practical benchmark to determine the relative losses for any 2G-HTS racetrack
coil application, unveiling the physical fingerprints that possible coil
winding misalignments could infer.
