some news and notes after settling down from a fantastic race.
- 8th best.
the finish on sunday with kevin harvick edging mark martin by .020 seconds (less than 4 feet) was the 8th closest finish in nascar history
- parked.
after flying through pit road trying to avoid a near wreck with about 15 laps to go, dave blaney ended up being the caution. thanks to gps telemetry, fox was able to show blaney traveling at 150mph entering pit road -- and he even faster leaving it. trouble was blaney had a flat right front tire, making the quick turn onto the track impossible. blaney took out ken schrader after the move that nascar was none too pleased with. they parked him for 5 laps, and then decided he was done for the race.
- yellow flag.
should nascar have thrown the yellow flag when kyle busch wrecked before the leaders made it to the start finish line? no way. i think you have to give race director david hoots credit for making the call to finish it under green. however, no love to the nascar spokesman who insisted the caution came out when clint bowyer's car turned over. if that was the case, the race would have officially finished under caution because the leaders had not yet reached the stripe.
- good tony.
can you believe the reaction tony stewart had after his wreck? i thought the shoe-in favorite to win the 500 would have come out fists a-blazin'. but instead, we got the humble tony everyone knows him as off the track. i'll call it now, there's no way he'll keep it up all year.
- ouch.
the jackman for the #31 cingular wireless chevy suffered a severe achilles heel injury in talladega two years ago, forcing him to be bound to a wheelchair and learning to walk again. he was back on pit road sunday, and appeared to incur the same injury for the second time. let's hope for the best for josh yost.
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