Does NASCAR Have A Plan, Or Are They Just Winging It?

When you have a wreck and the track is, for all intents and purposes, blocked, why not throw the red flag immediately so that the workers can clear the track faster? And in that same vein, why would you remove the basically totaled cars first and leave the car that only has a broken splitter for last, while letting said car and driver go ten laps down?

As the most popular form of motorsports in the country, NASCAR has got to have some rhyme and reason to what they are doing, and today, they didn't show it.

In my mind, this goes right along with the idea that we have track workers (and medical workers) who only work these races a few times a year, instead of people who are hired to do this job every week and therefore know what they are doing. Because, let's get real, when drivers are taken to the infield care center, medically cleared and still have time to walk to the garage and wait for their car to be taken off of the track, something is wrong.

It's even worse when that driver only got out of the car in the first place because the safety crew couldn't figure out how to remove his, mostly undamaged, car from the track in a timely matter. All while NASCAR let the field run under caution around a blocked track. Wow. Just wow.

And while I'm at it, how does Dale Jr. have time to slow down for this wreck and the drivers behind him, like Denny Hamlin and Bobby Labonte don't? Was there a spotter issue? Or did Denny Hamlin's excellence and ego block his sight and hearing for the moment? And while I'm still at it, when is NASCAR going to check Denny out?