Take the case of Ryan Blaney at the Texas Speedway’s All-Star race meeting in late May. The Ford driver was leading on the last lap with about 200 m to go when a crash behind him triggered a caution. Blaney crossed the finish line thinking he had won, his team was hugging each other, but … The rules state the cars would go into a caution lap under the safety car and the race would then go into “overtime”. This meant there would be an extra last-lap dash for victory after the debris had been cleared.
The problem for Blaney was he had already undone the side netting of his Ford Mustang to celebrate. According to the rules, all racing will be done with the side-netting in place. Now, while driving one-handed under caution, he somehow managed to get the netting refastened (not
