There's a thread on the Jennings GP website about the record lap time being broken. Do you think a lap record can be attained by a lap timer during a track day? Or do you think the record time should be from a sanctioned event with official timing?
If it can be verified by a couple of sources if it's not on a system like AMB then I'd say yeah. The AMB thing works differently than an infrared type system so I trust it a bit more for accuracy.
I'm not exactly sure what the question is, but the way I understood the last 20 years of watching motor sports in general... For a official track record it needs to happened during a officially sanctioned event.
Must have been all the Factory looking rigs pulling up at Jennings Monday. From what I understand there was testing for the Canadian Superbike teams going on Tuesday.
Tray Batey holds the official track record 1:14.8 during a wera national event...fastest time during a sactioned event...could be wrong
wouldnt the canadian superbike test be considered an official event since its a sponsored test by the canadian superbike series?
It was an official "series test". The timing was done by the official series timing system. Szoke did a 1:14.4 on his superbike and McCormick did a 1:15.05 on a 600.
I was under the impression that a "lap record" needed to be not only during an officially sanctioned event, but that it also has to be done in an actual race. You see MotoGP and WSBK in practice go under the track records all the time, but the "official" record doesn't fall till its done during the race..
All the records are different and pretty much anyone can say they have the record - depending on how they qualify it. FIM has their procedure and those records are official - for the FIM. The tracks may agree or disagree and keep their own records which are official, for the track. Personally I don't worry about it all that much. At this point hand timed records are pretty much out but hand timing is a good backup to a lap timer.
We're notmtalking about how fast you got kicked out of hooters for wearing the outfit. We're talking about lap times around a racetrack
I would also speculate that if you were to include AMA team test-times into this equation, the Canadian SBK times would look quite average. You can look to the times that the Yosh guys run @ Willow in testing as evidence of this.
