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Observations | Biffle’s car made it to the finish line and he won

DAVID POOLE

The Charlotte Observer

Sunday, Sep. 30, 2007

Some observations on Sunday's race from David Poole of The Charlotte Observer and ThatsRacin.com:

Greg Biffle won the race. It wasn’t the smartest thing in history for him to cut his engine off and on coming off the final turn, hoping to save fuel to do burnouts and steering with his knees to unbuckle his belts.

But he was leading and under power behind the caution car. He should have worried about getting to the line first before thinking about what he wanted to do after getting there, but that doesn’t mean that Clint Bowyer and Jimmie Johnson were right to pass him.

And no, the business about keeping a cautious pace that figured into the silliness with Robby Gordon after the Busch race in Montreal doesn’t apply here. In that instance, Gordon’s car was part of the incident that caused the yellow. The rule about maintaining the pace applies to cars that are part of an incident, not the winner coming to the checkered flag.

Biffle’s car made it to the finish line. He won.

Undoubtedly there will be those who question whether NASCAR was right to restart the race knowing it couldn’t get all 267 laps in.

Yes, deciding 225 laps would be the finish was arbitrary. So was deciding to shorten it to 210. But shouldn’t NASCAR at least try to get in as many laps as possible?

At some point, it was going to get dark and NASCAR was going to have to say, “OK, that’s it.” That’s arbitrary, too, isn’t it?

Kyle Busch handled what happened to him in the crash with Dale Earnhardt Jr. about as well as anybody could have handled anything like that.

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KANSAS SPEEDWAY

TRACK FACTS
Date Opened: July 6, 2001
First NWCS Race: September 30, 2001
Qualifying Record: Jimmie Johnson, 180.373 mph (29.938 sec.), 10/3/03
Race Record: Joe Nemechek, 125.058 mph, 10/10/2004
Owner: ISC
President: Grant Lynch
General Manager: Jeff Boerger
Phone: (913) 328-3300
Tickets: (913) 328-7223
Shipping Address:
1333 Meadowlark Ln., Suite 201
Kansas City, KS 66102
Mailing Address:
1333 Meadowlark Ln., Suite 201
Kansas City, KS 66102

TRACK CONFIGURATION
Distance: 1.5 Mile Tri-oval
Banking in Turns 1-4: 15°
Banking on Frontstretch: 10.4°
Banking on Backstretch: 5°
Grandstand Seating: 75,000
Miles/Laps: 501 mi. = 334 laps