NASCAR officials admit Edwards was put in wrong position in Nationwide race
Quote selected text Published July 5th, 2008 in NASCAR News
For the second time in recent weeks, NASCAR officials admitted to lining up drivers in the wrong order on a final restart. In Friday night’s Nationwide Series race at Daytona International Speedway, Roush Fenway Racing’s Carl Edwards was lined up fourth for the green-white-checkered restart that followed a late-race accident.
Then NASCAR officials ordered him to forfeit a position to Richard Childress Racing’s Clint Bowyer prior to the green flag. The team was arguing the call when the Winn-Dixie 250 was restarted. With chaos and confusion already surrounding the team, Edwards tried to block Mike Bliss on that restart, got into the side of him and slid off the track for a final finish of 11th.
“It was just a mistake on NASCAR’s part,” Edwards said shortly after the race. “Hopefully they will apologize for it, but I’m supposed to be in front of Clint on the restart … I’m just very frustrated with all the technology we have, just because I went out in the grass to avoid the wreck, I was always at least 50, 100 feet in front of Clint and they couldn’t figure out that I was supposed to be in front of him. I’m just very, very frustrated about that.”
Edwards praised his team’s effort to get him to the front and in leading laps, but the effort was sidelined by the scoring error.
“It’s just too bad when something like that happens and it takes you back and messes up your race when it’s just a scoring error,” Edwards said. “So hopefully they’ll figure out what’s going on so this doesn’t happen to these teams anymore. They don’t deserve it. My guys worked really hard tonight.”
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It was so obvious Carl was ahead of Clint when the caution waved. Nationwide needs to get it’s crap together this is just one in a series of screw ups! Can we all hear Mauricia Grant?
It’s amazing that these morons have replay from TV, scoring loops, in-car cams, and they can still botch it in back to back weeks. There’s absolutely no excuse for them blowing something like this. This would be one time where I would actually want to hear Jack crying about something!