Talk:Perseverance/@comment-97.93.54.6-20180529023357/@comment-28169398-20180530012044

Whether or not you had to skip an event is neither here nor there when you look at the design of the challenge.

In Front-Runner, those were 2 lap races, over 6-minutes a piece with full fields (don't recall if there were more than 22 cars). Each lap is 13.6km. The average speed was difficult, top speed at Recommended PR for most people was only achievable Mulsanne 1. Add to that you are now running in less than optimal lighting conditions, and it makes for an extremely hard challenge.

If you failed on 8.2 you knew in 1:50 seconds. You only had to pass a single car. While the target was challenging, the design was much fairer than Front-Runner.