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Originally Posted by peckstar
and Supercars have data that is a straight out measurement , not pieced together data
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It's not difficult to align data to video since that's standard practice in motorsport analysis and they can see clearly in the data when the brake light is active and when not when it comes to aligning to the tv coverage.
Transponders can fault as well; We had one (same brand used in V8S) fail to trigger correctly resulting in incorrect lap times once in ELMS competition and had to switch to the backup as a result.
What surprises me is that the transponders used in Supercars should have the capability of being linked to CAN on the car so you can see the trigger point of the transponder with car data, that would clear this up quickly, but for some reason it seems supercars isn't doing this. They need to, it would save a lot of hassle.
Of course, if it's a fault with the transponder then the ruling should not be reversed as it's a team issue and race control can only react to the information they have, which is why the ruling won't be reversed, but to me it's clear the speeding did not take place and the source of error should be determined and rectified.