I didn’t mean to imply that there would never be any issues in a mixed group.
I don’t know the specifics of the individuals or race that you’re talking about but from what you’ve stated it appeared that one of the two drivers made it past the novice driver and the other didn’t. We all can run into some unfortunate timing but to me, the person who made it past is the better driver.
There is a big difference between racing and qualifying.
If all that people want to know is who can make it around the track faster then they should stop driving after the qualifying round. That doesn’t mean that there isn’t a bad break from time to time, but everyone on the track has to make it past everyone else on the track. That is racing.