Jesus H Christ on a stick. I realize the track has to be dried. I know you want the race to end before 4 am. Guess what? Race fans will stay up till 4 am to see a winner. They will also stay in the stands to see who wins. I can see having all the cars run some laps to help THE TRACK DRYING VEHICLES dry the track.
deep breath to make a coherent Pitting
You started the fucking race with the cars helping to dry the track. That means you have all 43 cars following the pace car at the standard 55 m.p.h. All the laps count. At 55 m.p.h. Get that? They all start at 55 mph, that’s not racing. That’s just, well,…I won’t even insult stoopid people by trying to equate the two.
This fucking race is STARTING under caution. I can’t even continue. I never imagined something like this happening.
Imagine a soccer…no, baseball…no, football…no, polo match starting…
Nope. Can’t even equate the stupidity to another sport.
I hope Brian France suffers an incurable ass boil.
9 laps in as of this typing, and still under caution. What a fucking joke
If you have watch NASCAR long enough, this has happened many times. It actually helps speed up the drying of the track and the actual racing can get started sooner. I would rather watch the car go around under caution than watch the pit reporters spend another hour interviewing the guy that glues lugnuts on the wheels of Jeff Gordon’s car.
Their hand basically got forced on that one. They don’t like to do green-yellow starts (and you still got a double-file start, so chill out,)but if they hadn’t taken the green before 11 p.m., they’d have been forced to run the race today. NASCAR hates postponing races more than starting them under caution.
And pace car speed at Daytona is 70 mph. 55 is the absolute minimum you can drive through a corner without sliding off the banking.
NASCAR has done this sort of thing before, as recently as last year, IIRC. I believe Brianjedi has correctly explained the reasoning behind it, and I happen to agree with it. Start the race under caution (11 laps out of 160, big effin’ deal); when the track is dry wave the green for a double-file start.
Now, if ya want to complain about something, what about restrictor plates? My opinion is, ditch the plates and make’em drag boat anchors instead. Same net effect, and all the flying sparks would be cool, especially during night races like the Pepsi 400.
Oh come on whiner, it’s like you haven’t seen a bicycle sprint in a velodrome. Half the race is two cyclists playing slow down in order to get a draft for the fastest non-engine lap in sports.
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