Gas, no gas, light, no light. Juan Pablo cuts a tire and debris ensues. Caution comes out. If the field is frozen, the field is frozen.
Quit whining. But then again, Jimmie Johnson learned it from the best.
I feel sorry for the boys behind The Biff, but NASCAR (in its own take on wisdom) froze the field for a caution. You can’t pass on a caution even if you are yards away from the finish line. Remember, “no racing to the start finish line under caution.”
Hey! They could have called the race during the red flag stop in the thunder, lightning and rain when Tony Stewart was in the lead. It was past the point of no return. But the skies cleared, the track dried and off they went.
But that would have made NASCAR’s Bad Boy the winner and not the Hendrick Pretty Boys.
Only Biff, Greg and Jack know for sure if he was out of gas or not. The Roush team, er, Roush Fenway team, says he had fuel and race officials told him not to fire up the car.
Conspiracy theories aside, you can’t pass during a caution. Biffle wins the race.
But then again, NASCAR could change its mind tomorrow, or today. It is sort of the norm for them.
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Well, although I AM a long-time, die-hard fan of you know who :-)who you obviously are inferring is "the" "whining" tutor for JJ, I must say that in THIS case at least, I agree with you
Biff won the race period. What difference is it that he wins on fumes than Smoke winning the same way last year? Or had the race been called at the last rain delay yesterday as I recall Smoke ONCE AGAIN was on FUMES!
So, I see no problem with Biff winning whether on fumes or not.
For Jeff's sake, I am GLAD that Boyer and JJ didn't move up and win/second for pts consideration so yea Biff!
Besides, he was due. He's been in a long drought.
So Boyer, JJ and Jeff all need to hush up and move on.
I was afraid that this race, like most of the others anymore (since they've instituted the "IROC" cars otherwise known as the COT and NASCAR seems to just want them to truly drive around in circles) was going to be BORING
Well, I was wrong. Once it got started, it was FUN. Not for the Chasers who met with disaster BUT thankfully my favorite "whiner" as you call him was lucky and escaped it so THAT was just fine with me
At least we had beatin and bangin' the way NASCAR SHOULD be at least IMHO so it was exciting
I'm scared about Dega however since there's so many tempers, tiffs and strained nerves due to this inane "Chase"
Personally I was HAPPY that JR took out KB too, which was of course, an "accident" :-)
Dega is definitely not the place to settle scores though so I hope they remember that
I DID want to see what was going on between Hamlin, Jamie Mac and the #15 didn't you? They were having "words" via bumpers down on pit road after the race which I would have loved to see more of once they got out of the cars
AND I wondered why Smoke didn't do many pre-race interviews (NONE) and just one short one during rain delay. Now I see that he mouthed off an expletive at a reporter the day before during practice. Do you know what went on there for sure? I didn't see it.
They wave their cameras/mikes in their faces so much and especially immediately AFTER races/wrecks when they know they're going to mouth off and be hot, and THEN they get them penalized. I saw that they are NOT going to penalize Smoke for whatever he said on Sat though which I don't think they should either because sometimes the media can be really rude to them and all of them are extremely accessible to media and fans so give them a break, media
Don't agree with them penalizing drivers/teams and docking pts for cars being a few milimeters off AFTER a race!
Getting beat/banged during the race; hitting bumps in the track and simple fact of pushing down on car getting in and out of them pushes them down a little AND as closely as all the NASCAR inspectors check them out PRIOR to the race, I don't see that this is such a crime
Common sense (which has NOTHING to do with NASCAR anymore) would dictate that the things are going to "settle" a little just from the race and climbing in and out so unless the thing is WAY off, they shouldn't dock pts from the driver anyway, maybe the crew chief but not the driver, but actually I don't think they should dock them at all when it's probably just from the above and not "cheating"
That's stupid, BUT most of their changing "rules" are too anymore
So, more than my 2 cents lol.
I do think Biff deserved that win.
I hope my favorite "whiner" doesn't irritate you too much :-)
Go #24!
Lee Ann,
BTW, there's a poll up right now on nascar.com that asks who you think should be the winner of the race, Biff or Boyer
I voted for Biff but BOYER is ahead can you believe that?
I'd like to know how they justify that
I was more upset about the fact that NASCAR ended it under a caution when fans had set there through all those hrs of rain delay, they deserved better IMHO
It still looked light enough there to me they could have finished under a green/white
THAT bothers me a whole lot more that they should be complaining about that Biff "coasting" over the FL or whatever they're upset about
What's your opinion on the finish?
The people have an opinion, and so do I. Biff won the race. Period.
The caution had been thrown and the rule says you can't pass and you can't race to the start finish line for track position.
Pretty simple rule. Biffle wins.
If memory serves me well, Tony Stewart won coasting over the line before. Granted he was like 10 or 12 seconds ahead of the second place car...
Granted, NASCAR is well-known to change the rules to suit themselves, or certain team owners and drivers.
Until they change the rule about racing to the line under caution, Biffle won the race.
Ooops, I clicked too fast and published, I wasn't finished.
The people have an opinion, and so do I. Biff won the race. Period.
The caution had been thrown and the rule says you can't pass and you can't race to the start finish line for track position.
Besides, the NASCAR spotter said Biff was going fast enough. That's the opinion that counts, not Jimmie Johnson's, not Clint Boyer's and certainly not Jeff Gordon's.
Pretty simple rule. Biffle wins.
If memory serves me well, Tony Stewart won coasting over the line before. Granted he was like 10 or 12 seconds ahead of the second place car and there was no caution adn the race hadn't been shortened for any reason. But he was fast enough to cross the line and win.
Granted, NASCAR is well-known to change the rules to suit themselves, or certain team owners and drivers.
Until they change the rule about racing to the line under caution, Biffle won the race.
And until the spotter changes his mind, Biffle won the race.
He had a strong car and was certainly in charge toward the end of the race.
If it had continued, and there was still daylight left, who knows, maybe Boyer would have won flat out. We don't know.
But until then, Bifflw won the race.
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