Changes

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*BLAK started to sponsor the race at this point.

*The race start/end point shifted to Odia M-14, still it's current home.

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*The start time is moved to 1am GMT Sunday (8pm EST Saturday)

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*Shape did not finish this course... correctly. He started off going the wrong way and kept on going. He achieved a time of 29:36, just one second behind Calder, but was disqualified for the obvious reason.

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*Klox brings up the now well known "Iventory Lag Factor" through a link. Racers with large stashes of goods, ships and weapons will have larger loading times those those who don't. This speeds up race times considerably.

*"That 27-minute time of Ghost's will probably stand for a while" - quote from LeberMac, one which was true for fifty-nine races, until broken in Deneb Run #61 by Blue Streak{{br}}

*First time a Warthog Mk2 is used in a race, a common racing ship nowadays. Despite Racer only coming in in 3rd place and nearly 7 full minutes after the leader, everyone saw the potential in the ship (as long as they dropped the heavy mine launcher). Thanks to Racer, the Warthog Mk2 secured it's place as a race placing ship.

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*It looks like Three-Oh-8 does the first in-race ship change and pitstop in a Deneb Run, switching from a heavy battery to an infiniboosting ship.

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*This is the first time an Ultra Fast Charge Battery was used in a race, by mr. spuck.

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*Larry LeBeuf was eliminated with prejudice by an asteroid, the first such incident of a roid-racer collision (though collisions during the race wren't new, see Race #1)

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*Screwball and TGFT take over the now popular Deneb Run from Martin and BLAK, respectively.