2008 Daytona 500: Many of Final Laps Surprisingly Run Under Caution

Yeah, between laps 187 (on the mu f**n cop) and lap 192, things were tightly controlled by that Corvette Z06 Pace car. Making things incredibly exciting. Wait... hooooooooly crap look at the sparks form underneath Casey Mears' car, looks like the fourth of July in the poor kids neighborhood. Of course those sparklers lead to another series of caution laps, but oh no, there they go, final 3 laps... hang on to your butts.

6:57 PM on Sun Feb 17 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
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skylark64 at 08:49 PM on 02/17/08
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You guys suck. Buncha haters. Oh, sorry... turns out going 180 in something less than a glorified go-kart (F1) isn't good enough for you.
squablow at 09:56 PM on 02/17/08
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What's my muthafuckin' name?
-chet at 03:06 AM on 02/18/08
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NASSCAR did some more "competition yellows" late in the race?

How can you be surprised?
CEman at 06:30 AM on 02/18/08
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Anyone who actually watches these races is not too surprised by the cautions. On plate tracks, one tends to lead to another, even more so late in the race. The cars get bunched back up. Tires cool a bit and maybe pick up some dirt. The drivers are getting anxious, a million plus $ will tend to do that to people. It all works to push the chances up.
I was impressed with stability of the cars in and out of traffic. Heck, even the cars the got sideways or even backwards, for the most part, were able to recover. That big-assed, boy racer wing makes a real difference.

There was some freaking awesome bump-drafting going on!!! Kurt Busch truly PUSHED Flyin Ryan to the front.