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Originally Posted by Andy Asaro
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It's kind of amazing, when you think of it, that racetracks in 2021 have problems implementing technologies that were perfected in the 1930's and 1940's (they literally had fully automatic timing at the 1936 Olympics as well as at Santa Anita in 1934, they had hundredths of a second automatic timing at the 1948 Olympics, and they had a photo finish at Del Mar in 1938).
One thought- are they trying to save money by disabling backup systems? What would it cost them to line up a photostrip camera and keep some fast developer on hand just in case, and to run a beam system as a backup to Trakus or run an automatic timer off the video?
