The race, held in Daytona Beach, Florida, is particularly famous for its photo finishes and unfortunate wrecks.
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GLASGOW (Reuters) - Ferry Weertman won the men's European Championships open water 227.4-km title after the most dramatic of photo finishes in Loch Lomond on Thursday to complete a Dutch double after Sharon van Rouwendaal won the women's race.
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The prior year he won in a Ford driving for Bud Moore. This was his first win with Richard Childress driving a Chevrolet. Earnhardt led thirteen times for 40 laps. Six of the ten positions behind Earnhardt were decided by photo finishes at the line.
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Jere Longman, " Sydney 2000: Swimming; A Red-White-and-Blue Surprise," The New York Times (September 23, 2000). Retrieved June 26, 2015. It was the first and only Olympic swimming event ever decided on the basis of thousandths of a second.Byron MacDonald, " Byron MacDonald Blogs: Photo finishes in swimming," CBC.
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Traditionally maintaining consistent light over large 2D areas is quite difficult. With a line scan camera all that is necessary is to provide even illumination across the “line” currently being viewed by the camera. This makes sharp pictures of objects that pass the camera at high speed. Such cameras are also commonly used to make photo finishes, to determine the winner when multiple competitors cross the finishing line at nearly the same time.
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Idaho Gem won his next race at the San Joaquin Fair in Stockton, June 21. His time of 20.724 seconds over the 350-yard course was the fastest time by a 3-year-old mule through the end of July, the halfway point in the mule racing season. Idaho Gem also collected two seconds in photo finishes with the racing mule Out of My League. The total margin of victory between the two mules in the two races was .
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Early reports actually showed Bousquet elected by seventy-five votes, but the final returns after a recount showed Montpetit elected by thirty-eight.Sue Montgomery, "Photo finishes in several races," Montreal Gazette, 8 November 2005, A4; Henry Aubin, "Report on municipal vote is a whitewash: on vote counting" [editorial], Montreal Gazette, 17 January 2006, A19. The candidates ran on similar platforms: both promoted more social housing and condominium development for the region.Alex Dobrota, "Business owners 'let down' by revitalization efforts," Montreal Gazette, 19 October 2005, A6.
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Probably the dominant figure in the early years of the race was Seabiscuit, as the race proved to be a metaphor for his career. In his first two attempts to win it in 1937 and 1938, he lost in photo finishes, with the second loss to a horse carrying 30 pounds less than he was. He suffered what was believed to be a career-ending injury while preparing for the 1939 edition. He came back to run in the Hundred-Grander in 1940, finally winning in his last race.
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1877 Boat Race ended in the only dead heat in the history of the competition A dead heat is a rare situation in various racing sports in which the performances of competitors are judged to be so close that no difference between them can be resolved. The result is declared a tie and the competitors are awarded a joint ranking. Dead heats can occur in both head-to-head races and competitions where competitors race sequentially and are ranked by finishing time. Photo finishes have been a long-standing method of resolving outcomes too ambiguous to be distinguished by the naked eye.
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Next, Christensen raises both arms, waits for 2 – 5 seconds and then lowers his arms to start the race, which eliminates a popular tactic in drag racing, the delay box, from being used by the car. Officials, both from the show (since Series 2) and track, observe conditions and tape them for replay in case of false starts (leaving before the hands drop), race infractions (standard drag racing rules apply), and photo finishes. In the case of a photo finish, the video tape of the finish is brought to the start line to allow the teams to agree on the result.
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This creates tension between all racers and between racers and the track operators as well. The popular United States cable television program "Pinks" (Speed Channel) uses the TV shows host as a flagman with an arm drop technique at the start line (plus finish line human spotters, and camera "photo finishes" similar to those used in horse racing and dog racing). This simulates drag racing's historic roots of post WWII street racing of the 1940s, and non-electronic drag strip racing of the 1950s and 1960s. The delay box is useless in Pinks, since the first pass is run with the Pro tree (.
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