They had one freaky section later in the race that was 0.2 miles long at 6mph. Ther was a check, as expected, .1 miles in the section. After that everybody on my row gassed it and we hit the next check, which was only .1 miles later, 30 seconds hot! I thought it was illegal to have checks closer than 3.0 miles but someone said it was a new AMA rule that a promoter could do that. Luckily for me, the guy goofed and wrote my minute on the score card as though I had not been early. Did I protest myself? Heck no!