Decided to throw my hat into the lions den.
Broke the 6 min barrier in the process.
Some hat; must have been Oddjob's bowler.
Astounding time - through traffic, too. 
👍
I've read the 24M of Daytona thread (well, not entirely) - awesome event
... - and good explanation.
It was.
What happened to you was similar and I guess may be a good time to explain it as simply as possible to others who don't grasp what is happening.
I like to spell things out sometimes as we are an international community and I am always aware of the constraints of the language for non-native speakers and respect the fact that they can easily misunderstand or get confused.
Let's take a look at what happened to you.
Brooks should be
second according to his time but has been recorded as being third in his placement on the leaderboard.
We must keep this in mind:
There are two 'Recorders'.
One records the position, the other records the time.
Let's look at this diagram:
Now in the above picture the Stratos (you) are about the cross the finish line - the grey line with the little man in red standing by.
Brooks in the Focus and
Zapata in the S2000 (I couldn't find a GTO
) follow with
Brooks clearly in the lead.
In the frame below the Stratos has crossed the Finish line and the first Recorder (little red man)
registers your position as 1st.
Now the Stratos is heading towards the second Recorder (the little yellow man).
This guy registers the results
as at the end of the race in terms of 'positions' (not time lapsed at the end of the sector or lap.)
This is the amount of time that passes between you crossing the finish line and the technical end of the race for the CPU.
This is the area between the grey line and the yellow line.
So, below, we can see that
Brooks crosses the finish line
second, and according to his time taken to finish the race is also pegged as second by the first Recorder.
Zapata follows hot on his heels for
third place - according to the timings.
But then
Zapata is pissed - so he keeps going like a maniac; he probably wants to ram the Stratos.
Brooks came in second and is taking it easy. Zapata flies past him before the second Recorder is reached:
When they pass the second Recorder, in the pic below, the little man registers
Zapata's position as second - since for the yellow man (who seems to be in a parallel reality that exists in a time-warped future)
Zapata is in second position, never mind what time
Zapata checked in when he passed the first Recorder.
So the yellow man raises the leaderboard (with the first Recorder's timings attached) as showing that Zapata passed him second and Brooks passed him third - which as far as
he was concerned is entirely true.
Perceived reality is directly proportional to the belief applied.
In a long lap there are many of these little red and yellow men. Metaphorically speaking, of course.
Nevertheless, great car).
