Four races done

Did effectively for two to three seasons when my buddy and i both had hurricane 5.9s we ended up match racing each due to our over competitiveness , right down to prestart shenanigans , pushing each other out at marks , crash tacking ( soon learned not to do that ! ) pushing each other to the limits when windy untill someone would capsize , it was exhausting but great fun , he went on to come 2nd in nationals .

Not such a silly idea to match race darts , but something faster and evenly matched may be better .

thats why we do it !!!!

cat race that is 

agreed, the reality is that only a gear failure or human error is going to result in a downwind pass due to the nature of the beasts (although this may change if it goes mega light, but I'm not sure there isn't a min wind speed agreed), you can argue human error is part of racing but you can't argue that gear failure is something which can be relied upon to happen at a particular point or (fairly) initiated by a competitor towards the other boat