… is that the top guys just ran together and as it turned out no one else could stay with them. At the end we just saw the results of the kick when the top Cougs hadn’t tried to separate themselves from each other before then.

IOW, it doesn’t say much about the top relative to each other, other than they are all fast and we we can tell who has the best last 600. Clinger could have won by a lot more and maybe Nokes is ahead of troutner if the whole race is faster.

But that might not be how it actually played out.