This is why you’ll see the finish times in track move a little bit from the immediate unofficial time to the final time. A computer selects which frame was the

This is why you’ll see the finish times in track move a little bit from the immediate unofficial time to the final time. A computer selects which frame was the finish and then someone on the timing crew will move the “line” a bit to exactly capture the correct time. This allows for instantaneous times and then correct final times