Clint Bowyer Wins at Kansas Speedway, but NASCAR Says Its Greg Biffle Instead

Clint Bowyer wins at Kansas. Well, not according to NASCAR. Greg Biffle was leading the Nextel Cup race when the cautiousness flag came out on lap 207. NASCAR already shortened the race from 267 to 210 owed to darkness. NASCAR made the phone call not to have got a green-white checked flag finish. With the field frozen, all Biffle had to make was crossing the coating line on lap 210 to win his first race of the 2007 season.

One problem, he was running out of gas.

NASCAR mandates that you have got to keep cautiousness velocity and you can't be pushed on the last lap.

With Biffle's auto running out of gas, he slowed down and moved to the underside of the path coming out of bend four. The gait auto steadily pulled away, indicating he was indeed not maintaining gait auto speed. Jimmie Samuel Johnson passed Bowyer and Biffle. Bowyer then passed Biffle, Samuel Johnson allow Bowyer base on balls him. Casey Mears followed to traverse the line third. Biffle crossed the coating line in 4th position.

"Everybody was slowing down trying to calculate out what he was doing," said Jeff Gordon, who finished fifth. "We were almost at a halt to run his pace, and the gait auto was driving away, so we all just starting going by him. So in my opinion, he's not the victor of that race."

Jimmie Samuel Johnson agreed. "If you don't keep pace-car speed, you don't throw your position," he said. "And it was clear to everyone that he couldn't make it. If he could have, he would have got got stayed on the bumper of the gait auto to the coating line. So in my opinion, where he coasted across the coating line relation to the other autos that could keep pit-road speed is where he should finish."
"This mightiness be one of those things where everybody's just assumed that that's the regulation forever," Mark St Martin said. "But if it is, there are a batch of people in this garage country who presume that you have got to maintain gait with the gait car."

Biffle and NASCAR sees it another way.

"Their sentiment really doesn't count, as far as I'm concerned," he said. "They're probably thinking, 'Oh, it ran out of gas, I coasted across the line, everybody went by me, I went into the grass and then they pushed it to Victory Lane.'

"That's not the case. The auto runs right now ... you can travel and start it. [NASCAR] told me not to begin it. I was unbuckling, and trying to salvage my gas, because I knew the race is over. The field's frozen. The caution's out. And I didn't cognize they were going to travel by me. Sol should I have got bumped the clasp again, gave it a small more than juice, so cipher would revolve past me coming to the stripe?"

"I can travel start the auto up and do some burnouts in the garage over here, make some rings if that volition make everybody feel better about it," Biffle said. "I don't cognize what to say."
The job I have got is the manner Biffle crossed the coating line.

Biffle was obviously out of gas. He pulled into the grass right after he crossed the line. But instead of doing doughnuts in the grass, which is about the ONLY ground anyone thrusts into the grass after a win. To additional this he NEVER even spun his tyres in the rainfall soaked baseball diamond grass. He just close off the engine; well it may have got got been close off already, and climbed out of the car.

For what we thought NASCAR regulations stated, Bowyer should have won the race.