The Great Annual Passes Race

**The Great Annual Passes Race,** often referred to as **TGAPR**, is the biggest and most prestigious event in the sport of pass racing. It takes place in Common City and was first held in 21 918 PCE after the practices of taming passes and subsequently putting them into races against each other became decently widespread among the wealthy citizens of the Developed East. The race is typically held on the first day of October around 1:00 p.m. Nowadays, the event is highly regulated and professionalized. It takes place over 6 laps in a circular tube made from reinforced plexiglass, each lap measuring 1.91 kilometers for a total race distance of 11.46 kilometers. Since 21 985, the entry list is always capped at 20 entrants, all of which (along with 3 reserves put on standby) are carefully selected out of over a hundred applicants by the organizers based on their previous results, earnings and behavioral records. The entry list is announced by the 15th of August, allowing the entrants a month and a half of training on the course. The event attracts up to 50,000 spectators seated in makeshift grandstands around the tube.

### Records

**Most successful pass (3 wins)** - Caviar (21 921, 21 922, 21 923), Discovery Point (21 964, 21 965, 21 967), Tamaha Bay (22 012, 22 013, 22 014)

**Most successful handler (6 wins)** - Kayuri Abhali with Lamparro (22 002), Aronia (22 006), Braklee (22 007), Golden Shot (22 015) and Enable (22 017 and 22 018)

**Fastest winning time** - Golden Shot (22 015), 4m17.61sec, average speed 159.84 kph

**Slowest winning time** - Milton Typhone (21 984), 5m41.29sec, average speed 120.60 kph

**Biggest winning margin** - Reunion (21 956) and Discovery Point (21 965), 26 seconds (both before the introduction of decimal timing so no tiebreaker viable to find the actual bigger of the two margins)

**Smallest winning margin** - Order of Mace (22 010), 0.151 seconds

**Youngest winning pass** - Ansar (21 992), 5 years

**Oldest winning pass -** Peter Williams (21 948), estimated to be around 35 years

**Most contenders** - 33 (21 983)

**Fewest contenders** - 7 (21 957)

**Most finishers** - 31 (21 983)

**Fewest finishers** - 6 (21 958, 21 984)

**Longest odds winner** - Slingshot Pass (21 928), Grengon (21 931), Caulava (21 958), Foinalia (21 982), Green Demolisher (22 009), all 100/1 to win

**Shortest odds winner** - Motrico (21 930), Tamaha Bay (22 013), both 1/2 to win

**Most participations in the race** - Vanara (21 920-21 931), 12 times

### Top 10 fastest winning times in history

1. *Golden Shot (22 015) - 4m17.61sec, average speed 159.84 kph*
2. *Dylan Simple (21 996) - 4m21.54sec, average speed 157.68 kph*
3. Hurricane Link (22 011) - 4m22.53sec, average speed 156.96 kph
4. Enable (22 017) - 4m22.57sec, average speed 156.96 kph
5. *Discovery Point (21 965)\* - 4m25sec, average speed 155.52 kph*
6. Mr. Cornflake (21 993) - 4m27.16sec, average speed 154.08 kph
7. Glacky (22 008) - 4m29.88sec, average speed 152.64 kph
8. *Cavar (21 921)\* - 4m30sec, average speed 152.64 kph*
9. Reunion (21 956)\* - 4m33sec, average speed 150.84 kph
10. Manifesto (21 925)\* - 4m35sec, average speed 149.76 kph

The top 10 winning times are also 10 out of the top 11 fastest times of all time. This is because the second-place finisher to Dylan Simple finished just two seconds behind with a time of 4m23.71sec, which puts the run as the fifth-fastest time in history and was the second-fastest at the time due to both the competitors breaking the previous mark of 4m25sec held by Discovery Point. The timing devices used in the event didn't extend beyond the second's decimal point until 21 979, leaving margins older than that edition only with minutes and seconds.

Times in *italics* all used to hold the title of being the all-time best at some point.