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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Jumkie @ Aug 23 2008, 11:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}><div class='quotemain'>Oh I agree with the red flags, I just think they were created by Spies and Mladin pretending. Interesting, but both times they both got up, they managed to finish 2nd. Yeah, real hurt.
I can't stand the Suntrust MotoST series. It looks ........ to me.
So you think they will have those "competition yellows"?
Oh yeah, I didn't believe that either Spies or Mladin were hurt either. The most telling was at Miller last year, when Mat laid down on the track, I believe clutching his leg, then got up, refused an ambulance ride, and RAN back to his pit area.
As for yellows, when the big announcements regarding DMG's plans for the series began at Barber, Edmondson mentioned more endurance races. If the endurance races increase, then I would be surprised if timely yellows don't figure in to the race results. I wouldn't expect them to just throw the double-yellows and say up front, "this is a competition caution." Rather, a routine lowside that generally sees the rider picking his bike up and continuing or the course marshalls wheeling it away may conveniently be seen as cause for a pace car period. In the other series the Frances control, they look for ways to bunch the field up when one driver looks to be dominant and gaps the field.
I hope I am wrong on this one, but this seems to be the way they do business. They have been called on it in the past, however, so maybe they won't try it. This strategy hasn't amounted to a significant fan following for the Grand-Am series either, so maybe they learned their lesson and won't try to fool non-NASCAR fans this time around.
I can't stand the Suntrust MotoST series. It looks ........ to me.
So you think they will have those "competition yellows"?
Oh yeah, I didn't believe that either Spies or Mladin were hurt either. The most telling was at Miller last year, when Mat laid down on the track, I believe clutching his leg, then got up, refused an ambulance ride, and RAN back to his pit area.
As for yellows, when the big announcements regarding DMG's plans for the series began at Barber, Edmondson mentioned more endurance races. If the endurance races increase, then I would be surprised if timely yellows don't figure in to the race results. I wouldn't expect them to just throw the double-yellows and say up front, "this is a competition caution." Rather, a routine lowside that generally sees the rider picking his bike up and continuing or the course marshalls wheeling it away may conveniently be seen as cause for a pace car period. In the other series the Frances control, they look for ways to bunch the field up when one driver looks to be dominant and gaps the field.
I hope I am wrong on this one, but this seems to be the way they do business. They have been called on it in the past, however, so maybe they won't try it. This strategy hasn't amounted to a significant fan following for the Grand-Am series either, so maybe they learned their lesson and won't try to fool non-NASCAR fans this time around.
