I think so too. Or hope is more precise. I was not 100% happy, because it was in matchrace. You start closer to the first turn and in time attack it would've been a 50 I thought. Nintendo said it doesn't make a difference when I asked it many years later, but I was and am not convinced. I will never do matchrace again when trying to break a record. For me only time attack counts to be on the safe side.

Crystal Lake(surprise!). The record then was 1.02.50 (in N64-magazine. By a young kid from Christchurch of all places..?). It was +/- '99/'00. Racing 3.06, 2.86, 2.70 etc made 50 look too far away. Untill I got sub 60. Long story short...50 got easy, but had to break it...you know the feeling. 46 seemed too hard. Wasn't the case obviously. Once. Then the drive was gone. Now with all the fenomenal times it tickles. My goal will be Crystal Lake and Deadly Fall(the docu got me interested in that race). I tested if I got some feeling for the game left some months ago. It was gone. Totally. Didn't remember how to get goldman/penguinboard?. I don't expect anything. On the other hand..when I finally got a record back then in whatever course it at once became easy to get that time every time, so now I know what's possible I can see slower than the record, but faster than 46 as slow. Yes, that'll work. For sure. Don't know how I'll film it. I gues a smartphonecam pointed at the tv. Bigger tv than back then btw...fwiw. Later!

Nice story. I will race again this summer. Just for fun. Not to get records I guess, it's too long ago..but you never know.