Starr wrote:
In none of those 10 times you watched race was the camera perfectly lined with the finish line.
There is an official finish camera for recording their times and places, and that’s not what you were looking watching.
This overhead view is better, but still not official.
This. If you watched the standard NBC broadcast they showed it several times, but from two slightly different angles. From one it was hard to tell, from the other perfectly on the line it was clear.