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Ever since 2 1/2 year old me saw him win in this green car in the first race I ever watched, he’s been my driver. The next week, I saw he was the M&M’s car too and that sealed it. I was there through close to all of it, both good and bad, but there aren’t words to describe…
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Day 8(!!!) of voting Kyle Busch for most popular driver
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No one says that because it’s very obvious having 50 more wins outweighs the 2.2 difference in average finish
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someday i hope to watch a NASCAR where Bubba doesn’t get the rules bended to penalize him, almost all of Bubbas penalties have no precedent, and they penalize him under the guise of “setting a precedent” that they don’t enforce going forward
A new episode of "Hauler Talk" has just dropped. A few takeaways:
-- NASCAR is saying that to get penalized for going below the double yellow line, a car must have the whole tire down there AND improve the position AND not be forced down there. So three things.
-- In Kyle Larson's case, he didn't go below the yellow line (was on it), so it's a moot point.
-- Austin Hill would likely have been black-flagged if he hadn't already finished as the last car on the lead lap. He was not forced below the line by Larson in Turn 2, NASCAR felt; Hill went down there himself AND improved his position. But they didn't call anything because the penalty would have put him right where he was.
-- Ross Chastain and Carson Hocevar went below the line but were not penalized because they were forced below the line by Todd Gilliland, NASCAR felt.
-- NASCAR looked at penalizing Gilliland but it was inconclusive whether he forced them down there on purpose, so they didn't make a call (but they could have and it was close, apparently).
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Day 6 (for 6 years since winning the 2020 Fall Texas race) of voting for Kyle Busch as Most Popular Driver
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I would LOVE(s) a good father/son throwback this Halloween season! Who else remembers the pre-KB era M&M’s schemes?
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Hell, the yellow line stays put. So should the rules. Shouldn’t take a damn podcast to explain how you’re calling a race 🤯 🤨
A new episode of "Hauler Talk" has just dropped. A few takeaways:
-- NASCAR is saying that to get penalized for going below the double yellow line, a car must have the whole tire down there AND improve the position AND not be forced down there. So three things.
-- In Kyle Larson's case, he didn't go below the yellow line (was on it), so it's a moot point.
-- Austin Hill would likely have been black-flagged if he hadn't already finished as the last car on the lead lap. He was not forced below the line by Larson in Turn 2, NASCAR felt; Hill went down there himself AND improved his position. But they didn't call anything because the penalty would have put him right where he was.
-- Ross Chastain and Carson Hocevar went below the line but were not penalized because they were forced below the line by Todd Gilliland, NASCAR felt.
-- NASCAR looked at penalizing Gilliland but it was inconclusive whether he forced them down there on purpose, so they didn't make a call (but they could have and it was close, apparently).
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That last paragraph vs this lol
Like I've been saying... Just asking for consistency 🤷🏻♀️ – at Roanoke, VA
NASCAR's Mike Forde shared today on Hauler Talk that officials "probably" would have had to make a call on Austin Hill passing Kyle Larson in the event he had gone on to win Talladega. Hill ended up finishing as the last car on the lead lap anyway (which would've been the same result as if he had been black flagged), so a call was not made. In NASCAR's judgment, Hill went below the yellow line before he was ever pushed down there by Kyle Larson.
There was also considerable discussion of whether Todd Gilliland should've been called for forcing Ross Chastain and Carson Hocevar below the yellow line, though no call was made in the moment.
On Hill:
"The result would've been the same, he would've been the last car on the lead lap. We did not call that, essentially, for that reason. But that was one where there was discussion of if the 33 had won that race, would we have to take the win away. ... So that was probably a call we would've had to have made."
on Gilliland:
"In the moment, I think we said it was kind of inconclusive of whether he came down to block them, to keep them from passing the 34, so we made that a no call. I think that was the closest one. There was some discussion of 'man, maybe that's one where we should've potentially made a call there.' We chose not to in the moment, but there was more discussion around that one than any of the other ones that we made."
In regards to further clarification on why there was no call on Kyle Larson and where things stand with the yellow line rule in general:
"The tire has to go fully below the yellow line. So if there is even a half an inch that remains on that yellow line, we're not going to call a penalty. So in our judgment, we felt that was pretty clear. That's kind of where the conversation ends as far as NASCAR goes. It's 'do we feel that, were there tires below the yellow line? No? OK. That's it.'"
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"To get a penalty, almost three different things have to happen: You have to be below the yellow line, you have to improve your position, and then in our judgment did you get shoved down there."
Larson did go below the line
Hill was forced below
Ross and Hocevar did go below the line
Gilliland didn’t force anyone below
Everything about this is wrong
A new episode of "Hauler Talk" has just dropped. A few takeaways:
-- NASCAR is saying that to get penalized for going below the double yellow line, a car must have the whole tire down there AND improve the position AND not be forced down there. So three things.
-- In Kyle Larson's case, he didn't go below the yellow line (was on it), so it's a moot point.
-- Austin Hill would likely have been black-flagged if he hadn't already finished as the last car on the lead lap. He was not forced below the line by Larson in Turn 2, NASCAR felt; Hill went down there himself AND improved his position. But they didn't call anything because the penalty would have put him right where he was.
-- Ross Chastain and Carson Hocevar went below the line but were not penalized because they were forced below the line by Todd Gilliland, NASCAR felt.
-- NASCAR looked at penalizing Gilliland but it was inconclusive whether he forced them down there on purpose, so they didn't make a call (but they could have and it was close, apparently).
This argument is also very tired because not only would these same people be complaining if Toyota or Ford did it, they have called normal teamwork between Toyotas especially “race manipulation”
