Thanks for sharing your story. Have you contacted the Badwater RD? If so, can you share what his general response is? There have been allegations that the Badwater race officials look the other way in regards to cheating at their race. They want people to finish and keep coming back and paying the $1000 entry fee and if a few back of the packets ride in their pace vehicle for a few (dozen) miles in the middle of the night, then hey, nobody is really getting hurt by it.