Based on just 3 lap timing and best lap times, i've configured the best 1st lap time and the best timing for a lap on sunny beach.

From what i saw it is mathematically possible to reach 1m 2s 429ms.

From observing the speed ratio of best lap timings, and after 131 km/h was reached, most best laps never reach 129km/h, most reaching 127km/h but have better avg km/h timings.

After an average timing from turning around corners, if the turns maintain a 85+km/h power while reaching a 131km/h terminal speed on its 1st straightaway then a sub 1 m 2seconds is also possible. Considering the runs, and turns it is also possible for the best lap to be sub 20s according to just math. Though unlikely.

The limiting factor is waves and their cycles - you're correct these kinds of times are quite possible, but unless new tech's found, only on "calm" wave settings. On standard waves, you lose too much time from airtime and readjustment to get anything close to this, and typically, one of your first or second lap being fast comes at the expense of the other lap being made much slower.

I wrote a bit more back in a discussion of the Will Lam probably fake time thread on SB human limits discussing the question from two angles, "sum of best lap times from top runners" and "sum of best known recorded lap times".

The 102.6 is indeed impossible unless something new's discovered or play significantly improves. If you look at top times and best laps from the top 15 or so best members of the leaderboard seen in a record, they were 22.338 by shibbypod in a lap 1 pb, and the 20.412, and 20.177 in Shibby's record. They sum to 01:02.927.

That lap 1 time is borderline optimal. A 20.3 is roughly the current optimal lap 2, and lap 3's record is a 20.096 on a different difficulty setting. On that 1:02.927 there's therefore MAYBE another theoretical 200ms to save - but saving this without new tricks would first not only require one of the fattest WRs this community had ever seen to shave 186ms on our most competitive time, but also a theoretically perfect race where the player achieved the best lap ever done in this community, on literally all 3 laps of the same race, despite the map typically only letting 2 out of 3 laps be fast - and then you STILL would need to find another impossible to account for 30-40ms to get to their time.

Pretty much unless they found a glitch that gains speed or a shortcut, that time's fake.

Correct, while it is possible the chances anyone gets to those optimal settings is near considered impossible. My hopes is too establish a bounds of known possibility. From only mathematical scenarios even while running on calm myself i have a established a bounds here, though i've ran faster times lap wise this only certifies a sub 1:3.000 is possible. (Click Me) I was not able to break a 129 km/h barrier. I had noticed the waves provide a very crucially small speed boost when riding the waves as close as nearly vectorially possible, provided that the rider was able to do this, i've noticed shibby was able to get to a 131 km/h whilst riding a wave. Now with further study in order to beat shibby's record a rider needs a few factors into consideration. The rider needs to get to a speed of 127 km/h then on the first turn maintaining at least 85 km/h around turns, after the first turn 129 km/h around the very first straightaway against three waves, the rest of the straights need to be maintained around 129 km/h. According to speed times, and wave vectors a simple B press needs to occur within a .025-.075 time frame. to simplistically level the rider closest to the wave on straights.

To note past records from magazines where only a picture was needed for submission. It could have been possible that the wr was broken, could the riders have been using calm settings before to obtain those times? Now im aware of Misuken (I think the spelling is right) being actually real along with other notable times that seem feasible... Now there is an even faster time belonging to a Chris Murphy, of Manchester who had a validated NTSC record time at a 1:02.694

To cite the credibility of this one record would be unknown even a sub 1:3.000 has never happened yet. Though even in this article that was posted under this title COULD SB 1:03.755 BY "WILLIAM LAM" FROM 1998 HAVE BEEN REAL? I can safely say that any of the prior times such as william lam and below could actually be real. It would account for a natural bell graph within statistics, even the times below are more realistically what we have seen is possible even for the best of players. The frequency of them are relatively low.