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I decided to brush up on my Pole Position skills a few weeks back and today I was able to snag the fastest qualifying lap time ever - 54.79.
This one actually comes with a bit of a twist as Pole Position has counting anomalies whereby the clock counts the hundredths incorrectly. The previous world record for a qualifying lap was set by @Nondrowsy with a 54.70. You would expect 54.70 to be faster than 54.79, but 54.79 is actually one tick faster in Atari math. Pole Position counts as follows (verified in Mame and with a slowmo video on the actual machine):
I doubt that Twin Galaxies will be able to process it as a new World Record because their system won't know what to do with it, but, for the moment, I've got the fastest quali ever. Knowing Dan, though, he'll come back and beat it -- he always does!