Time Still Not Right
Randy Moss reports that the official, hand-clocked Fountain of Youth final time is still off due to an anomaly in Gulfstream’s track configuration:
The problem is that Gulfstream’s oval isn’t exactly 1 1/8 miles, as advertised. When the new lengthened oval was laid out at the time of Gulfstream’s massive renovation project, a measuring error was made resulting in the dirt track being slightly longer than 1 1/8 miles in circumference. Thus when 1 1/8-mile races are hand-timed at Gulfstream from finish pole to finish pole, the resulting clockings are about .50 seconds too slow.
Timing for 1 1/8-mile races begins at a point 17 feet after the finish line, with all other fractions timed normally. Confused? Steven Crist has helpfully posted a table with all five sets of FOY times.
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