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You mean the start that was called back....Brownie did jump the initial start for sure, but they had a complete re-start that he didn't jump.  But the cars in front of him in turn #1 went above the cushion and that's how he got up front quickly. 

Did Blaney have a terrible week?  yes, but to blame it on a start is a bit of a stretch isn't it??  Other cars got horrible starts in their heats and overcame them.

Brown may have jumped the initial start (personally thought it was Brown’s fairest start of the 2 weeks there), but he definitely jumped on the start they let go.  I was sitting down that way and he was definitely past the third row by the time they hit the white line. 

They usually give Brown some slack on the starts, even during the season, but that is also usually because you have to keep tabs on McCarl who tries to jump every start, and I’m a McCarl fan!

It amazes me every year, every week, how these guys deep in the field jump the start, doug calls it back, puts out no penalites and then they do it again - and he just lets it go.

If we just made them move back a row  the first time - most drivers are going to chalk it up as, tried - didnt get away with it, didnt lose much.  

A track like Knoxville, should and probably does have people in place to see when a driver advances rows before the finish line. we see it from the stands.

McCarl, Brown, Dude and plenty of others do this every week they start on the outside row of a heat race or deep in the field of a feature.

The only place i don't really agree with a 1 row penalty is at the front of the field.  I'd give them a second chance to start together and if they cant figure it out the second time switch them with the 2 drivers in row two.

As we noticed in the C-Main on Saturday, it can get pretty ugly when the front two drivers dont start at the same time.  Not sure if that was the outside car starting too fast or the pole sitter just not getting up to speed fast enough.  But it got pretty ugly for Rico and Marks on the front stretch - Rico's was bad enough that Brown, Darrah and other drivers came to check on him.

So the first start where he was in 3rd place before the flagstand was fairer than the 2nd one??  My math must be off then as 3rd seems like a much bigger jump than running 6th going into turn #1 on the 2nd start....

Agree that they allow too much jumping on every start, but I've seen wayyyyyy worse starts at every other track I've ever attended (especially @ WoO shows where they only seem to ever penalize local cars even if a WoO car was the guilty party).