Mark wrote:
That's exactly what many fans, including me, would want to avoid. I think
the point here is that until you actually take the yellow flag you are still
racing. Gentlemen's agreement or not if the 2nd place car chooses to pass
the leader one they way back to the yellow he is well within the current
rule set. From a competition stand point that is exactly how I want it to
stay.

However, there is a safety issue for the drivers and rescue people involved
in an accident on the track. It's simply insane to race past an accident on
the track. If you were the driver in the wrecked car you wouldn't take to
kindly to your fellow competitors splitting you wreck as they race for
position back to the yellow flag. All the drivers should be intelligent and
mature enough to realize that and back down if the wreck is between them and
the yellow flag. It seem however that with all the over exuberant young
blood on the track both the so called GE and common sense have simply gone
out the window, and the worse part of it is that veterans are also losing
their minds and racing where they shouldn't.

So IMO all NASCAR needs to do is start passing down some judgment calls when
they feel a driver has put another driver or safety crew member in harms
way. Very severe penalties like held for 2 or 3 laps. And no shit about
how Joe shmo was doing it so I had to keep racing. Slap a couple of
dominant leaders with that kind of penalty and they'd all shape up PDQ.

NASCAR just need to have the balls to take the heat from the fans and the
drivers when they make the call.

BTW this goes for bone head moves like JG deal Sunday in the pits. A two
lap penalty would have pulled his head out of Amanda Cloud's (is that her
name) pants quick as shit.

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Rob

Robert R Kircher, Jr. wrote:

I gotta agree with you there ~ penalizing a guy for pitting out of his box
by a few inches while allowing all sorts of dangerous moves both in the pits
and on the track just doesn't make any sense.

Julia wrote:
But the key is NO NEW RULES. It's purely a judgment call on the part of
NASCAR. And too bad to the lot that say "That ain't fair". Too bad so sad.

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Rob

"Mark" <aviatorsonestop (AT) dp (DOT) net> wrote

Why not just leave it alone?
It has worked fine for over 50 years.
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-v-
Solamente ocho!

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"-v-" <vxmNOvxSPA-3M*@altara.invalid> wrote:

"Lloyd Parker" <lparker (AT) emory (DOT) edu> wrote

That was a lot more than 50 years.
In any case what does your nostalgia about the Old South have to do racing
back to the yellow?
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-v-
Solamente ocho!

Lloyd Parker wrote:
Were they wrong?
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In article <kL2ab.18$Od.9039 (AT) twister (DOT) tampabay.rr.com>,
"-v-" <vxmNOvxSPA-3M*@altara.invalid> wrote:
status quo.

"Lloyd Parker" <lparker (AT) emory (DOT) edu> wrote

Nothing wrong with it.
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-v-
Solamente ocho!