Coordinated prison rules for newly arisen insubordinate preschool fools...

Race weekend is over...

What an interesting NNCS race...lots of weather, cautions and controversial finale. As much as I ridicule team Hendricks drivers, when I talk out loud with other race fans, I must admit yesterday they showed some class. Being at the race without a scanner, means you are not getting the whole story. I watch scannerless, so I was in the dark, like the track was, at the finish. After the speakers announced Biffle won under caution without a green/white restart, what spectators that stuck it out during the three hours of rain delay, flooded the stands in a mass exit...before Biffle even crossed the stripe. So I had assumed NASCAR ended the race before cars crossed the stripe. Which I thought, that's odd, what a let down. Kansas is a track without lighting, so the sunset cut the race short...no normal restart. Once I got home and kicked off my mud covered shoes, I watched the race recaps. I indeed left my seat too soon...Biffle ran out of gas, and Bowyer (my driver) crossed the stripe first! This happened under caution, Biffle could not keep pace with the safety car, and diverted his machine to the logo painted lawn...the cars behind him kept paced and crossed first! However, NASCAR made another judgement call which allowed Biffle to keep the victory. Johson and Gordon showed some class, and have my respect, they both congratulated Bowyer on the victory. Bowyer, showed calm and a lot of confusement on the cameras. He and his team thought he had won too. After watching the replays, I agree, Bowyer won his hometrack race, it is obvious, look at the picture above. The Black Jack wins!

The understanding of the rule has been, under caution the running order is frozen. Keep pace with pace car, no passing. Then earlier this year at the Montreal NBS race, Robby Gordon was caught up in a NASACR rules snafu. Which led teams to understand that he did not fall in line and did not keep pace and was penalized for that. The confusement is over pace. Some teams appearently albeit wrongly thought that keeping pace was the key. I wish that NASCAR did not keep the rules so open ended and secret from the fans...then again, if a race team can't keep them straight and NASCAR keeps editing them, maybe they are better left unknown by the general public.


-A