While all posts re this recent discussion can make sense at some level, or another - let's be careful we do not manage to piss in our own soup and undo a fantastic piece of work started by Eric and now continued by Luan for the benefit of a community which numbers thousands of folks.
Moreover, I've driven at 9 venues and none of them offered any opportunity to "cut" or otherwise "improve" my laptimes without very serious consequences like possibly launching the car into air, breaking suspension and/or wheels, rolling, wrecking, etc. I suspect a vast majority of venue are like this. I suspect only a handful of venues in N America offer an issue of track limits.
Who knows, it may only be COTA due to a specific F1 design with large flat run outs.
I would hope like heck, that 100% of us would not offer a time where an unfair advantage was gained and made us look like a hero. And let's make no mistake, this was not really the case here, as a video was offered, commented on and retracted.
We can all err folks
We are all long term members here, who have helped each other and many other members with variety of info and advice over the years. Let's keep our community together!!!
As far as COTA, or any other track that possibly "offers" track limit advantages, let's request a video, so folks can see what lines were taken and draw their own conclusion. Or, establish a standard based on a given series and ensure a vid is provided to uphold the claim. And who knows, this issue might be limited to COTA only? Happy to be corrected here. Cheers!