I kept thinking it's a good thing Epicenter won neither races.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtUvV0xhmyc
What does a magnet do to a compass. The north pole tracks the magnet until it is pulled away and the compass snaps back to true North. What if Earth is the compass and some body in space is the magnet? If the orbit is elliptical, there could be long time periods without interference.
That explains why Albuquerque is crime central now.