Ok, here's the situation:
Last weekend the 9th round of the Argentinean series Super TC 2000 season was held in San Juan and after a really awesome race in which every sort of thing imaginable happened, the 2 leading cars... TIED.
Here's a video with a recap of the race, fast forward to around the 3 minute mark if you just want to see the ending moment:
So both cars arrived together at the finish line and both got the exact same number on the time sheets, to the milisecond (1/1000s). Now I don't know if this situation has happened before in all history of the sport (I know of qualy tying, even the famous triple tying but never heard of a tied race) but the race directors said they couldn't tie and that some1 had to win, so after carefully watching the video in slow motion they concluded that PernÃa's car (the black/yellow one) crossed the finish line 1st even if the times were equal (due to a different position of the timing transponder on the car). Of course you can imagine the reaction of the other team .
But things got worse, because around 2 hours after saying that, they actually penalized PernÃa for crashing (?) into Marchesi's car (on the White/Blue car) so the latter actually won the race... and the rage and controversy is still on
A couple of pics:
So what do you say? Can they actually "tie"? What would happen for example in F1? Do all F1 cars have their sensors at the same place?