I have a issue to understand that note....
what you mean with...FIA did not take the 1 percent rule into account....
talking about Noble and Gabelich...
Noble got the record over the mile certified and was listed as the record holder in the FIA record list....as he was 1 percent faster as Gabelich....
over the kilo the different was not enough, so Gabelich kept the record and was listed in the record list....so far was everything correct under the current rule in 1983....
the change in 2011, to get the 1 percent rule off, means from 2011 on you have only to be faster, didn't make a different to the record list before 2011...
also, as Noble's 633 mph over the mile was faster than Gabelich's 630 mph over the kilo, Noble was the fastest man on land....up to 1997 when Green run 714 mph at Black Rock....
which also beat the kilo record of Gabelich....
about the 622 mph record....Dick Keller - Mayoman - wrote it very often...
it was the stupidness of the main sponsor that the actually faster record...630 mph over the kilo....wasn't published in the media....maybe has something to do that the USA, as some other countries, is mile not kilo....
for the most people it was another record over 600 mph....okay....nice....
but for the kilo community it was the first record over 1000 kph....1001 over the mile and 1014 over the kilo....that was a very special number...
once again...here the stupidness of the sponsors was the reason for wrong communication to the public....
more surprised that it looks that the Blue Flame is complete forgotten in the USA....a couple years ago the Smithsonian had a special activity about LSR....and the Blue Flame wasn't listed...
it shows Breedlove and than Noble....what a farce.....
hope this ANSWERED your question....if not.....explain me what you really meant....and I will write another note....
Thanks PP, however it does beg a further question - notwithstanding that the 622 mph speed was widely published how is it that the referees at FIA did not take the 1% rule into account? They had all the data for both cars runs. Do you know if this was appealed at the time?