Martin wins Dover while 1 lap down

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From Jayski:

Blaney, not Martin should had been the lucky dog: #6-Mark Martin's Dover win was certainly popular and well-deserved, but NASCAR's confusing scoring snafu shuffled the field at a decisive moment. And the Bill Davis team insists #23-Dave Blaney, their driver, not Martin, should have been the man to get the crucial 'lucky dog' free pass back to the lead lap. That pass helped Martin win the race. If Blaney had gotten the free pass and gone on to win, it would have been his first tour win, and a major plus at a critical point in his career. Davis' team said NASCAR officials, when shown computer printouts yesterday of NASCAR's own scoring-and-timing at that moment, on lap 319 of the 400-lap event, reluctantly agreed Blaney, not Martin, should have gotten the free pass. But they said no change to the results would be made.(Winston Salem Journal)(6-12-2004
 
i was at the race, i didnt think martin was gonna get his lap back, it was a really confusing, i forget how i saw things but in my opinion at the time martin wasnt getting his lap back
 
Seems WSJ and Mike Mulhern will print anything to slam NASCAR (think maybe they are jealous of Charlotte?). They will even go so far as to detract from someone's (Mark Martin, in this case) win. It's so easy to go back and second guess. I would love to know just they would have done better.
 
I VERY RARELY put any stock in the W-SJ anymore!

Hey, Mark won the race! When you add the "Human Factor" into the readouts (as in who was running the computer, doing the scoring, who could have messed up, etc.), almost anything can happen!

Good thing they didn't have me doing it, right DE??? :XXROFL:
 
Yeah Kat!! You'd have Jeff winning every race three laps ahead of everyone else..........just in case he ran out of gas while listening to Molly Hatchet on the radio!! :D
 
I don't think Dave would've won the race, but the entire outcome would've been different if Dave wasn't up front to be a contributor to the "Big One". Look at all the good cars that would've still been in the running.

Personally as I was just outside working, I was thinking about this. I don't think Dave was a lap down. He and Ryan were the only 2 on the lead lap by not pitting. I'm confused about Daves' pitting because we were never told when he pitted, I just assumed he pitted just before Ryan made his mistake. If not, Dave should;ve been the only car on the lead lap? But in either case, he should not have been at the tail end of the lead lap, he should have been on the lead lap.

He** I don't know. LOL I'm glad Mark Martin one in light of everything else that happened.
 
Originally posted by DE_Wrangler_2@Jun 12 2004, 02:02 PM
Yeah Kat!! You'd have Jeff winning every race three laps ahead of everyone else..........just in case he ran out of gas while listening to Molly Hatchet on the radio!! :D
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Sounds good to Me,I nominate Kat for official scorer. :lol: :lol:
 
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