Well, here's something for thought. One friend I rode with was on row 30, A senior. At the first check on the second loop, they told him he was the 25th person through. That's 29 rows of 4 ahead of him, and only twenty five of those continued.
The first loop was pretty damn hard with the conditions. I have a 2002 300 mxc and ran out of gas 2 miles from the end of the first loop. With a stock 2.9 gallon tank topped just before the race.
needless to say I didn't finish either (B Vet)
first time. basically, it sucked! ;-)