Originally Posted by bitingduck

And it's not the same as sprinting in a mass-start event, either. In all my racing I consistently sucked at the 200, but in a mass start race (even a short one) I could consistently beat more than a few people who were as much as a couple seconds faster than me in a 200. Usually by managing to avoid 2-up drag races, but even in drag races I'd often squeak ahead by a tire.