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DAVID POOLE / The Charlotte Observer
Sunday, Feb. 18, 2007
Some observations on the Daytona 500 by David Poole of The Charlotte Observer:
What's a flagman to do?
Should the caution have come out on the final lap? NASCAR was in an impossible spot.
Throw the caution and people would scream, and you’d also have the issue of deciding who was ahead of whom at that moment. It would have been a mess.
But by waiting until Kevin Harvick and Mark Martin finished, you have a mess, too. That’s why consistency in officiating is so vital.
On any other lap, there’s no question the caution would have come out immediately. NASCAR has to make it a practice of calling the last lap just like the first.
If you don’t let guys race back to the caution on the final lap at Pocono in July, they shouldn’t race back to the caution on the final lap of the Daytona 500, either.
Bowyer's finish one they'll talk about
People always talk about cars coming across the finish line upside down and on fire, and it all but actually happened in the 500.
Clint Bowyer’s car was on its roof when it slid under the checkered flag and flames erupted as it rolled back over onto its wheels.
Where's the salute in that song?
What puzzled me about the prerace show was how Kelly Clarkson jumping around on the stage singing, best I could tell, mostly about failed relationships constituted any sort of “tribute to America” or “salute to the military.”
At least at Lowe’s Motor Speedway, they stage a mock invasion and make the frontstretch safe for democracy.