The question of the week seems to be, “What counts as a official record breaking time at Buttonwillow?” Here’s the breakdown of how SUPER LAP BATTLE records timing and record keeping.
- Only times achieved during an official Super Lap Battle event count toward the official records maintained by Super Street magazine. With huge rule variances between different sanctioning bodies, there’s simply no way to accurately compare times between events.
- Practice sessions do not count toward official results – the practice session is for teams to shake down their cars as well as determine run group classification. Only times run in competition sessions will count toward official results.
- Timing is run by NASA using a AMB transponder system which is widely accepted as the standard for automotive race events. Only the times from the AMB transponder system are counted toward the official results.
We have strived to keep our rules and timing practices consistent in the six-plus years of running time attack events. This is to ensure that a reliable benchmark is set for tuners to compare times year after year. As teams become faster, records will soon be differentiated by mere tenths of a second. The need for us as a sanctioning body, as well as a publishing company, to report results in an accurate manner is vital to the integrity of the sport.
