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@stelle
No, no.. it's not...the black line is the shortest route. Definitely. It may not be the best line to ride on the minidrome, but it's still the shortest. Imagine the track as an inverted cone and then open it out and lay it flat.
All three lines - red, blue, black - the whole track - are the same steepness too: the track was laid with flat pieces of plywood. If you drew a horizontal line out from any cutout section of the track you could see this. Any one section of the track will be the same degree of steepness from the top to the bottom. It's not a bowl or curve.
But besides that, there's no need to take any criticism here too hard - I think the concensus is that it was a fun & novel event...
That's very kind of you, but quite embarrassing - nothing could be further from the truth!