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It is a kind of rolling shutter effect, but you're misunderstanding the finish camera's design - they capture a single column of pixels and the horizontal axis is actually time. This is why the background of photofinishes is a bunch of streaks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photo_finish#Strip_photography




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