Or they can start their own thread, and leave the racing fans be.
Okay.
This, my friends, is why I watch CART and IRL. Only a bunch of redneck Bubbas chasing a pretty boy around in a circle would think of something so inane as to give laps back to the loser…
[sub]How was that?[/sub]
I know, I know, the joke doesn’t work so well when Jeff Gordon isn’t winning every single race anymore… You get the drift. I’m a race fan, but NASCAR makes me sick.
I also am not a fan of the “lucky dog”. That said it seems as if NASCAR is bending over backwards to try and increase the competitiveness, popularity and safety of the sport. They sure have been willing to try new things. So I think that if drivers, owners and fans speak out against it NASCAR may rescind the rule.
Didja see that thar Burton wreck? Boy-howdy he got more air than Jordan on that thang! Wheeeeeeee, Ellie-May bring me the shine jar!
Me too. But I actually found it quite interesting. That said, can someone explain to me what’s going on?
If there’s an accident, the cars stop racing and proceed to a start line? And it’s considered infra-dig to race then? But some people do - eg. cars that were on the point of overtaking? And cars that have been lapped go to a line further back or something?
So the custom evolved that a few cars a lap or so down could catch up with the main lap?
Is there a reason it’s fairer when there’s an accident, or is it just tradition?
Shade, you’ve pretty much got it. Before, if the caution came out, most cars on the lead lap wouldn’t race each other (gentlemen’s agreement) and often the leader would slow down enough where cars that were close enough to him could get to the start/finish line before the himr and therefore get a lap back. NASCAR let the guys do what they want for years but an incident a couple of weeks ago where a car sat wrecked on the frontstrech while some lap down cars came racing at 3 or 4 wide toward the wrecked car warranted a rule change. Now the positions are frozen as soon as the caution is displayed. Check out that link above for more.
Thanks.
Being in the act of passing doesn’t have any bearing on your position when the caution flag comes out in NASCAR, the way it does in Indy or CART (if it still does in those series). Wasn’t this what Paul Tracy had argued a couple of years ago in the Indianapolis 500, that he had begun the act of passing when the caution waved, and therefore should be allowed to complete the pass? This would have been a moot point in NASCAR.