Official Statement Regarding Passing Below the Yellow Line
Tuesday October 7, 2008
The finish to yesterday's 2008 AMP Energy 500 in Talladega featured quite a controversy. Rookie Regan Smith crossed below the yellow line on the final lap and passed Tony Stewart for the apparent win. Although he crossed the finish line first NASCAR awarded the victory to Tony Stewart.
Today NASCAR issued an official statement regarding passing below the yellow line at Talladega and Daytona.
Comments
Why just Daytona and Talledaga? The tracks are longer, so what. The tracks are banked steeper, so what. What is fare at one track should be fare at all the tracks. THis would eliminate another controversial rule. THe only reason possible would be that it makes the racing safer. It that were the case, than it should apply to all of the tracks.
Badbob:
Learn to spell. Fare is when you pay for a ride. Fair is fair.
There is always a smartass in the crowd
Did you understand what he meant? Thats the question
Just comment on what he’s saying we don’t need an English teacher.
Tony forced Regan below the yellow line and got above the line before the finish line, so I think Regan won the race and Tony should be pentilized.
Biffle should be pentilized for bump drafting in the curves and causeing the crash….
Nascar set an example in one of the Truck races that has confused the issue. Now they are back tracking. Typical Nascar. Tony played the game as he learned it. It wasn’t “FAIR” when it happened to him just as it isn’t “FAIR” that it happened to the 01. (Had to be sure my spelling was right :S)
By the way Biffle was hit in the rear so not sure he should get a penalty however Carl Edwards should. Take him out behind the woodshed as far as I am concerned.
Did ANYONE actually think NASCAR wouldn’t award “Whiney-Ass Stewart” the victory? No wins this year…always a “Bridesmaid, never the Bride” @ ‘Dega?…boo-hoo-hoo
if stewart wasnt a cry baby he lost fair and he didnt like it but if the shoe was on the other foot tony would be crying like the b**** he is…..
I’m with gman, take a grammer class.
tony forced the 01 below the line
why don’t the rules apply to him
i rewound and watched it over and over and i’m not a 01 fan but he deserved to win
i still don’t understand why all those team mates stayed behind him so long
they gave the race to 20
Bottom line is Tony’s a Cry Baby and NASACAR wasn’t in the mood to deal with his fit if they didnt allow him to win at a track he never had at even thought he finshed 2nd>
I Think this just shows NASCAR is full of Crap!
WWFcar, what a joke
if it had been 24 or 48 nascar would of done the same thing for the fair haired boys and i still think the cot sucks we never had tire troubles with the old car at talladega lets junk the cot and go back to racing
Wat do we have out here a bunch of english teachers and cry babies.. the 24 and 48 wern’t even involved in this. The 01 went below the line and thats that! Thats the rule. If you dont like the rules then stop watching then!!!
Oh but you’re mistaken. You see, 48 divided by 24 is 2. 2 multiplied by the inverse of 01 -> 10 (since he went below the yellow line) equals 20, so the 20 is the winner. Fair is Fare!
I dont care for either on of the drivers,but Tony definetly forced the 01 down and won the race.Bottom line !
I dont care for either of the drivers.English teacher reading.Bottom Line
So, you don’t think that they pay for a ride? Fare IS fair. Any way you look at it, it will cost you. Nobody still has answered the question I first asked. Why a yellow line rule at those two tracks. I sure hope that my grammar is correct.
The 01 car should have did an Earnhardt or A Rusty Wallace move and took the cry baby Stewart out and then give an excuse in the Winners Circle that it wasn’t intentional! But this way Nascar gets what they want either way! The answer to your Yellow line question is simple this is just a way to keep GREY AREAS in the rules, eventually it will come up at another track and they will apply the Daytona and Talladega rule. See what happens when Foreign companys invade something, they throw money at it and get what they want and in this case Toyota has paid off Nascar. Now we have the IROC Series on a National Level, all cars the same, open wheel Drivers and Hell the only thing left is for Toyota to buy out the rest of Nascar!!!!!!!!!!!!
I am not a #20 or a #01 fan.Tony was blocking like any one else would do in that case.
01 could’nt get around him up high so he went down low broke the rules( you can not advance a position below the yellow line )he tried to cheat and got caught. Tony won the RACE !!!!!
On the other hand Carl Edwards should be fined and loose some points for the STUPID STUNT he pulled!!! That’s the cry baby !!!! If I was his team mate he would show up at the next race with a black eye for forgetting that you don’t bump draft going into a turn.
Gman says it best. If most of the rest of you were graded on your composition skills, the results would be graded zero or some appropriate negative quantity. Simply because one can decipher your inept attempts to phonetically spell does not make them acceptable, excusable or appropriate (see 3,4). Similarly, there is no excuse for ever using “have did” (see 19) in a sentence or anywhere else for that matter! The verb to do is declined do, did, done. As a result, I do it, I did it, I have done it. That only covers the first six words. It gets worse from that point on! Regarding Tony Stewart, he did an excellent job of BLOCKING the track which left Smith with the option of finishing behind the 20 or DRIVING below the yellow line in order to pass.
beanblossom….I bet you have a real
pur`dy(m.o.p.)mouth.
Gee, I thought this was suppose to be about NASCAR, not grammar. Guess I was wrong. Those that watched the race all have their own take on what happened. I agree Stewart is a big crybaby, take that into consideration along with the fact that he is almost finished drivig the #20 car, and you have the reason they said he won. Can’t have him go out without a big win at one of the big tracks.
Oops, I left the “n” out of driving.
Bad Bob, You answered your own question. There is more banking at Daytona and Talladega, therefore when you drop off that banking and when you come back up on it there is too great a risk of upsetting the handle (and aerodynamics)of the car. A perfect example is Clint Boyer sliding across the finish line upside down and on fire at the end of the 2007 Daytona 500. They show the clip all the time.
If the driver that went below the yellow line would have been a Hendrick driver, the race would have been awarded to him. Nascar definitely favors Hendrick.