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| Brad Keselowski doing a victory burnout after winning yesterday's Auto Club 400 at Auto Club Speedway. (Photo Credit: Robert Laberge/Getty Images) |
Well, I'm sure you saw it and said "What is going on here?"
On the last lap of the Auto Club 400 yesterday, Brad Keselowski beat Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch to the checkered flag. Keselowski managed to get passed both of them on the second Green-White-Checkered attempt.
He kept Kevin Harvick from winnning all three races of the 2014 NASCAR West Coast Swing.
But, here's the controversy.
Greg Biffle spins out in the tri-oval, and his car is lying in the middle of the track.
Now, NASCAR let the drivers race because Biffle managed to get his car off the track. But the question is, should NASCAR have ended the race?
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| Auto Club Speedway's tribute to Jeff Gordon that they put on the pit road wall. (Photo Credit: Brendan Littell: UNB! Network) |
You are allowed three attempts at a Green-White-Checkered attempt. If the yellow flag is waved BEFORE the white flag is waived, you will have another attemp, UNLESS, it it the third attempt. In THAT case, the race ends whether the cars crossed the Start/Finish line or not. NASCAR will look at scoring loops on the track to determine the final results.
But this caution involving Biffle was right when the white flag was being waived.
Should NASCAR have thrown the yellow flag, or should they have let them race back to the Start/Finish Line?
Well, they let them race back to the line.
I was scared, and I'll tell you why. I didn't know that Biffle had moved his car off the track, because I was not at the race, I was watching FOX's NASCAR On Fox television broadcast of this race. Had I known that Biffle had gotten his car off the track, I would have said, let them race.
But I didn't know that Biffle had done that, which made me shout "END THE RACE! END THE RACE!"
But, the race ended without Biffle getting slammed into. He was facing the wrong way on the track.
Noticed how I said ON THE TRACK, but I said that he drove the car off the track.
Well, he was half in the infield, and half on the TRACK, so he wasn't 100% off the track.
So should NASCAR have let the drivers race?
But, back to the race in general.
Brad Keselowski did not even know where victory lane was at this track.
"I know [Kevin Harvick] and [Kurt Busch] had been the class of the weekend and deserved to win on speed. Maybe we kind of stole one today." Keselowski said, according to ESPN.
Dale Earnhardt JR. and Jimmie Johnson had been trying to gain some ground on the three cars of Keselowski, Harvick, and Kurt Busch, but JR. wound up finishing 6th, and Johnson wound up finishing in 9th.
Danica Patrick finished 19th, her highest finish of this season so far.
Harvick would finish 2nd, and Kurt Busch would finish third after rolling off pit road before the first drop of the green flag on the pole position (1st place).
He had not won since March of 2014 where he beat Jimmie Johnson to the checkered flag.
Harvick, on the last pit stop of the race, took two tires and drove off. His crew was going to the others side of the car to change the OTHER two tires, but Harvick just drove off to hopefully exit pit road in first place.
Congratulations to Brad Keselowski on winning the 2015 Auto Club 400!
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