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In the 24 years of the Nascar All Star race, this year marked the first year since 2001 that a car did not disqualify due to a crash. Past races include the Waltrup’s getting tangled up, Davey Allison winning the race, then spending the night in the hospital that night, and even last season’s wreck caused by the Busch brothers.
Kasey Kahne, the winner, put it best in his post race conference when he stated:
“At the end, once I took the lead I was going, ‘man, no cautions, no cautions,’” Kahne said. “The last thing I wanted was a restart and to have somebody starting beside me, that was the last thing I wanted. So I was just hoping for no cautions and we didn’t have any and it worked out perfect for us [...] Everybody drove a great race to not have cautions.”
Although the majority of viewers are secretly hoping for a flaming, flipping, disastrous crash, it was nice to see a race ran to perfection. We root for it in baseball, Olympic Sports, and other competitions . . . why not Nascar?
May 19th, 2008 at 1:37 pm
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