New Hampshire Motor Speedway was just the latest race in a string of unenviable finishes for Tony Stewart .The two time NASCAR racing champion has been bit more times this season than anyone in recent history that I can remember.
Tony's #20 toyota led the most laps (163 of a possible 301)at the 1 mile stock car track only to get screwed over by rainy weather and officials. Stewart and many of the race leaders decided to pit for Goodyear tires and Sunoco fuel under a caution flag for one last dash to the finish in the Lenox Tools 301 .
Then came the rain.... with about ten laps remaining in the race.
Now any racing fan knows that once the field completes one-half of the advertised number of laps, NASCAR can call the race as official if for some reason the event needs to be stopped . However under most circumstances NASCAR officials do make every attempt at completing the
entire scheduled event .
New Hampshire Motor Speedway is only a 1 mile track and could easily have been dried off once the rain had passed to allow the stockcars an opportunity to complete the race as scheduled .
The Red flag was thrown at around 5:15 EST with at least 3 hours of daylight remaining . Why didn't NASCAR officials wait a while before calling the race ?
The finishing positions of the cars at the front of the pack didn't reflect in the least the cars that had run up front for most of the day . Kurt Busch got credit for a win that surely wasn't deserved . Keep in mind under the current champion chase rules winners get extra bonus points for each race won .
Do you think this will effect the race for the chase this season ?
Did NASCAR jump the gun by calling the race official before the scheduled laps were completed ?
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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