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February 17, 2007
Sprague wins Daytona in a three-wide finish
Jack Sprague won the Dayton truck race from the pole, giving him his first win at Daytona and giving Toyota it's first win at the track.
The race was slowed by 7 cautions, but the dramatic finish is what fans will remember. Travis Kvapil led for a lot of the race and it looked like he was going to pull out the win when Benson gave Sprague a big push to the front on the final lap and then made it three-wide for the finish. Benson ended up finishing ahead of Kvapil in the finish.
The biggest question was that Benson actually went below the yellow line to pass Kvapil on the botton, a move NASCAR supposedly reviewed and deemed legal? I always thought that if you went below the line and advanced your position, you were penalized, so why was Benson's below the yellow line pass deemed legal?
I'm not a fan of either of the three in the finish, I just don't understand why Benson was allowed to pass below the yellow line and it be allowed to stand when others in the past have been nailed by it.
Your thoughts?
Photo credit NASCAR.com
February 17, 2007 in NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series | Permalink
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Odds
Posted by: Odds | Dec 17, 2008 4:36:45 PM
I tend to agree with Mike. The yellow line rule should be done away with, as it can easily cause an unsafe situation, where a driver is forced to roll off the gas and kill his momentum, causing anyone behind him to check up, and so on.
I though Johnny's pass was a little suspicious, but as always, NASCAR interprets the rules to engineer the finish they're looking for.
All in all, however, a great race.
Posted by: fourstringfuror | Feb 19, 2007 2:04:28 PM
NASCAR is going to have to give up on this preposterous yellow line rule because it can't be fairly enforced and there's no safety argument for it.
The biases of the rule are often incredible. Bobby Labonte would have been flagged off the track if he'd passed on the apron of Three at Talladega with five laps to go, but it was Dale Junior so it's the lying boilerplate about how he'd "already completed the pass" to justify not having a penalty.
Posted by: Mike Daly | Feb 17, 2007 12:41:07 PM
Great finish last night, I forgot the reasoning but Parsons explained it . Yeah I know I am alot of help.
Awesome to see JB up there and hope he beats "cueball head" in points this year.
Posted by: Kurt2 | Feb 17, 2007 9:20:50 AM
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