# Darlington! What a finish! That's NASCAR racing! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843 "2003-03-16T21:30:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [March 16, 2003, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/1 "2003-03-16T21:30:50Z")
Last lap…Kurt Bush…Ricky Craven locked door to door. Beating and banging each other. Craven wins by inches. No other racing matches that finish. NASCAR rules! ---
**Author:** ![NotWithoutRage](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/22d042/32.png) [@NotWithoutRage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NotWithoutRage)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/2 "2003-03-17T00:01:24Z")
And the hijack of all time… I’m friends with Ricky’s aunt 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![as\_u\_wish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6f9a4e/32.png) [@as\_u\_wish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/as_u_wish)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/3 "2003-03-17T03:56:15Z")
WOW! I had to watch the race on tape delay–my daughter had a concert this afternoon. I saw **Reeder** ’s thread and knew I was in for a treat. But I had no idea it would be so incredible. Real racing. I half expected Dave Blaney to catch them both. And we get Bristol next week. ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/4 "2003-03-17T04:11:31Z")
That was one HELL of a last 2 laps! ---
**Author:** ![brianjedi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@brianjedi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianjedi)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/5 "2003-03-17T04:47:37Z")
Finally, the NASCAR Dopers come out of the woodwork! That finish ranks up there as one of the best I’ve ever seen. Even more impressive was Busch saying he had no power steering for the last 10 laps. I don’t know how Craven kept from wrecking when they got together. As an added bonus, I’ll be in Bristol next week. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Shadez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/90ced4/32.png) [@Shadez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadez)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/6 "2003-03-17T05:23:31Z")
Ooh, lucky, Brianjedi. I’ve only been at the Chicago Motorspeedway. (I was in the infield though!) very hot. Didn’t get to the see the last laps, though they were on the radio; very fun listening to the last 5 laps as the radio kept cutting out under every overpass. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![JaxBeachBoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@JaxBeachBoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JaxBeachBoy)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/7 "2003-03-17T05:25:52Z")
um, like 1/2 of the IRL races last year matched that finish ---
**Author:** ![Spit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/76d3ee/32.png) [@Spit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spit)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 5:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/8 "2003-03-17T05:36:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by JaxBeachBoy \* > \*\*um, like 1/2 of the IRL races last year matched that finish \*\* Not hardly. An IRL car would have been torn to shreds during the final two laps of that race. ---
**Author:** ![racinchikki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/eada6e/32.png) [@racinchikki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/racinchikki)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/9 "2003-03-17T06:47:01Z")
Does Kurt Busch _ever_ have power steering? Seems like he’s lost it rather a lot lately. What a finish! Wow! ---
**Author:** ![KGS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/90ced4/32.png) [@KGS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KGS)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/10 "2003-03-17T08:26:08Z")
About three years ago Bobby Labonte won the Dover race in similar fashion, passing the leader on the final stretch and beating him by about six inches. This one was closer, though…and more exciting! But the funniest ending I ever saw was in a Busch race several years ago. On the final lap, the 2nd place car tried to make a pass but ended up crashing himself AND the 1st place car into the wall, and the 3rd place car crashed into both of them. ---
**Author:** ![annieclaus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5a626/32.png) [@annieclaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/annieclaus)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2003, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/darlington-what-a-finish-thats-nascar-racing/161843/11 "2003-03-17T15:59:16Z")
I was jumping up and down, screaming! Great Race finish! Loved it! And I especially liked the fact that Kurt Busch was gracious after the race was over. Wow!