The game runs much faster in PAL than NTSC (at least in emulator), which means someone running a NTSC physical copy of the game stands no chance against a PAL run. I would like to run this (physical NTSC) but was curious what the community thought about the boards.

NTSC tracks are really different from PAL tracks. FPS would matter if the tracks were equal. but since the tracks are different. I asked to be a mod to try change that but until now no result.

Done. ^^. PAL and NTSC categories are separated. Different Tracks mean different times.

I've noticed that after the NTSC/PAL separation, two runs in NTSC are still listed as running the PAL version in the categories even though they are NTSC runs :)