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Originally Posted by steveb

everybody should be privy to correct info.
the time of the race is not very meaningful in and of itself.
it's what you do with what you have that matters.
you are assuming that everybody that has accurate data knows how to use it, and that is a long way from the reality.
nearly everybody loses long term, and so it would stay, regardless of the accuracy of the data.
very few people are willing to do the work, and of those that are, only a small proportion of them will make it work anyway.

for self(when i was involved), every race was timed off video, and there were more errors than you would believe, and that's in jurisdictions that are timed from the gate without run ups.
even the set of gates they used would play a part in the time of the races.
so i guess i had an advantage by having all data verified in various ways, but i also know that if everybody had the accurate info i had, it would make no difference to who won and who lost.
it's not the raw data it's what you do with it.

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