The racing at Bristol for the Busch race was really good. Much better than in previous years. Cars were easily able to race two wide, and sometimes even three wide. The trucks enjoyed similar racing Wednesday night, so there should be a lot of racing action for Saturday night's Cup race.
Speaking of which, congratulations to Johnny Benson for winning the truck race. He is a class act, and all around nice guy. It's great to see him having success in the truck series.
The big story from the Busch race was the bizarre ruling against Kyle Busch. I'm not a "Rowdy Busch" fan, as a matter of fact, any race that Kyle is in, he's usually not among my top 40 favorite drivers in the race. Nonetheless, Nascar's ruling against him was terrible, and could have easily been corrected.
Busch seemed to have one of the better cars, and was a strong contender to win. Then, under a yellow flag, he faked diving to pit road, and pulled back on the track. Nascar decreed that he made a commitment line violation, and penalized him, effectively moving him from the front to the rear. A move that he would never recover from.
The bizarre part is that the replay immediately showed that Nascar's ruling was completely wrong. Busch obviously did not touch the commitment line, or the cone.
Why couldn't Nascar correct their mistake? Everyone saw the bad call. Nascar uses videotape all the time to determine positions, especially under caution. And given the length of cautions, would it have killed Nascar to take another minute to rectify their blatantly blown call?
The entire episode was very strange, and fueled the usual conspiracy theories. If that call had been made against Junior or Gordon, would Nascar have bothered to fix it?
Nascar has had a few odd calls this year. It's fine to screw up now and then, but it's not ok to let the mistake stand, when it would be simple to correct it.
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