The driver was required to repeat his qualifying laps and ultimately lost track position.
Even so, failing pupils are often required to repeat a year.
If the authority loses the appeal, it could be required to repeat the process of approving toll increases.
Nearly five times as many students in the third through eighth grades are being required to repeat a grade this year compared with last year, the city announced on Thursday.
The chancellor sets promotional standards that determine when students can be required to repeat a grade or attend summer school, and those standards, to a degree, determine what teachers teach.
Cadets cannot even begin training without passing a class one medical, the most rigorous medical there is; they will be required to repeat this at frequent intervals for the rest of their careers.
After only a few such exercises in life planning, the children improved their performance on standardized academic tests, and the number who were required to repeat a grade dropped by more than half.
The nation's largest school system was thrown into a panic recently when the mayor of New York decreed that third graders who performed poorly on a city test just weeks away could be required to repeat the grade.
The subjects were required to repeat the vowel-consonant-vowel (VCV) syllable (/asa/) 16 times at 1500-ms intervals.
