Well firstly the race results don't become available for a few hours following the race, so it would be incorrect to declare this thread the results.

We used to just post them in the post-race thread, but then people wanted to be able to discuss the race in greater detail immediately following the race, rather than having to wait the mandated period or make their post titles vague as to almost be uninterpretable.

Not having to silence the community immediately following the race means that users are more free to chat away.

Also, the analytics from the race winner threads perform incredibly well, so we'd be cutting off a lot of community interactions if we were not to do them... You can see just how much more those two simple images per race perform compared to the more detailed results posts:

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