Just a little question about timing

[Dimension]

Does anybody know why the PAL version of WO3 only measures lap/race time hundredths of seconds in even numbers? Kinda confusing because it seems the NTSC version uses odds too. not terribly important I suppose, just felt it was strange

[G'Kyl]

In fact, the game timer only advances every four hundreths of a second. My guess has always been that this was done in order to spare processing time for stuff like graphics and who knows...

EDIT: had the description of the counter gotten wrong at first