Nascar Related Thread about .50 and 1.5 mile Tracks

We suppose to laugh also?

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they have to get out of the way if they're holding the leader up.

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by Nascar? or just the good ole boy rule?

The blue flag with a yellow stripe is shown to warn slow drivers of faster cars approaching. NASCAR rarely black-flags drivers for not obeying this flag; however, it is frequently displayed and warnings may be given if it is blatant (such as a lapped driver blocking for a teammate). NASCAR uses the yellow diagonal stripe on the blue flag because the flag is usually displayed on top of the starter's stand, and not at eye-level to the driver from the track.

I was close enough.

Asked a question in Fantasy thread.

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Posted by Bama and Beer online on 3/12/16 at 4:04 pm to Sellecks Moustache quote: they have to get out of the way if they're holding the leader up. by Nascar? or just the good ole boy rule?

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NASCAR has a flag for it and uses it on occasion, used to have to use it a lot more as drivers would fight much harder to stay on the lead lap bc there was no lucky dog/wave around cars

FTR: I still don't understand the wave around rule or if they still even use it

I think that was my understanding of it but can anyone do it or is it limited? I mean logically it does make sense that if the leaders all put and you don't you should gain a lap on them but ONLY if ALL the lead lap cars pit and I'm not sure they do it that way

We would never expect someone with a highly intellectual mind such as yourself to understand a joke about that big dumb racist, sexist, and homophobic NASCAR

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I still don't understand the wave around rule or if they still even use it

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Like Anchoo said, it is till used, and is to keep there from being any cars between the pace car and the leader when coming back to green.

Back in the day, before the lucky dog or the wave around rule, you could not pass the pace car under any circumstance. When a caution came out, and the leaders pitted, you might have a handful of cars a lap down who stay out. As the leader pits, these cars unlap themselves and become the cars at the tail end of the lead lap.

Also remember that back then, on restarts, lead lap cars made up the outside row, cars a lap or more down dropped to the inside row.

So you end up with cars that are on the lead lap, and in the outside lane, but are not the leader of the race, so the leader may take the green flag 6 or 8 cars back.

One of the changes made when going to the restart system we have now, besides having lapped cars in the back and doing a double file restart with the leaders, they made a rule that allows those cars on the tail end of the lead lap (or a lap or more down) go around the pace car so that the leader is always in the front row when coming back to green.