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Old 06-23-2012, 11:46 AM
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Originally Posted by helicopter11 View Post
if the beam was tripped early (in the case of Spectacular Bid), wouldnt the fractions be much faster than it was? At least one of them.
The beam to start the timer was tripped early, not the beam, if there is one, that marks the time for the first fraction.

In other words, if you start the timer 10 minutes before the race starts, the time is going to be much slower.
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