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Other Sports => Other Sports => Topic started by: cosworth151 on March 04, 2008, 05:52:49 PM
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From indycar.com:
The Indy Pro Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in 2007 has been recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records as the closest margin of victory in a car race.
The 67-lap, 100-mile race was decided by 0.0005 of a second. Logan Gomez edged Sam Schmidt Motorsports teammate Alex Lloyd by 1.65 inches as they crossed the finish line at 190 mph on the 1.52-mile oval.
"It's a great honor to be recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records," said Gomez, a Crown Point, Ind., native who will return for his second season in the Indy Pro Series with Guthrie Racing in 2008. "I was happy just to get my first win at Chicagoland, but if you're going set a world record, I can't think of any better way than to win a race, even if it's by a very slim margin."
I couldn't find a short video of the finish, but here are three other squeekers from Chicago:
http://www.indycar.com/multimedia/videos/player.php?v=804
If only there were F1 finishes this close.
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It's just as well there aren't - the timing system can only cope with 1/1000 of a second, so if it happened in F1, there'd be a three-day wait for the computer to conclude it was a dead heat (possibly preceded by saying both the people involved won the race), and then the points and prizes being split down the middle. I don't know about you, but half a winner's trophy doesn't sound quite so exciting...