Originally Posted by
cat0020
IMO, human powered vehicle records should be powered solely by human power to travel; not following a motorized vehicle getting the aerodynamic benefit to make traveling forward easier.
Sure drafting is a skill, but not for records.
There's a lot of history here. Notably Alfred LeTourner (whose picture was in Schwinn advertising in many of the comic books I bought), who in 1938 first cracked 100 mph drafting a racing car, and who previously in France participated in motor-paced track racing.
That wasn't "real" racing?