IT’S NOT JUST A BIG ONE. IT’S THE HUGE ONE!<\/p>\n
Nearly the entire field involved in this crash at Talladega! #NASCAR<\/span><\/p>\n \u2014 NASCAR on NBC (@NASCARonNBC) October 6, 2024<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n In recent weeks, NASCAR reiterated its rule that if a driver cannot drive back to pit road after being involved in an incident, their race is over. Briscoe and Elliott were both able to finish the race after being rescued, returned to the pits and serviced by their teams.<\/p>\n Another issue was with the red flag. Once lifted and the field put back under yellow, the pace car did not start rolling the field. Meanwhile, those already on pit road before the red flag could have their teams begin working on their cars.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019ve got to get that cleaned up as a sport,\u201d JTG Daugherty winning crew chief Mike Kelley said. \u201cThere are teams with a lot on the line that are sitting out there just waiting on wreckers to get to them. This is my 30th year doing this, I don\u2019t know if I\u2019ve ever seen them turn the yellow flag on and allow guys to work on cars while other cars are just sitting there .<\/p>\n “I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll think about that and talk about that because if you\u2019re a guy who\u2019s sixth in the championship hunt and you\u2019re sitting there waiting on somebody to get to you, but the other guys are working \u2013 maybe I\u2019m looking at it wrong and the DVP clock evens it all out \u2013 I was getting confused when Ricky kept coming by. There\u2019s still four cars sitting here.<\/p>\n \u201cThey were put in a tough situation with that many cars involved in that wreck and this many wreckers and the cars look to be damaged and in the grass. They couldn\u2019t use the airlift system. Some guys are running it, and some guys are not, so it\u2019s a tough situation. We\u2019ll learn from it and get better at it, but it was a lot of new things kind of happening.\u201d<\/p>\n NASCAR senior vice president of competition, Elton Sawyer, addressed the media Sunday night on those incidents and more.<\/p>\n \u201cI would prefer us not to be standing here talking about this,\u201d Sawyer said. \u201cI want us to be talking about Ricky\u2019s big win, talking about our playoffs, but when you\u2019re in live sporting events and you\u2019re in officiating that\u2019s going to happen from time to time. We\u2019re going to do our absolute best to clean that up and not be in it, but that\u2019s just part of sports.\u201d<\/p>\n Sawyer\u2019s full comments:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Confusion and irritation about NASCAR officiating was rampant after the “Big One” broke out Sunday at Talladega Superspeedway. There were 27 cars collected in the incident on the backstretch with five laps to go in regulation time. Among the issues raised was NASCAR towing cars back to pit road, two of those being playoff drivers …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":76724,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-racing","has-thumb","has-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76723\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\ud83d\udcfa\"](\"https:\/\/wp.timesamerica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/confusion-over-nascar-officiating-in-cup-series-biggest-ever-crash.png\")
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