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Topic: How can you undo a race after the winner took the checkered flag?
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September 13, 2025 at
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Re: WoO race last night. In the end it didn't matter because Kofoid just checked out again, but... I think every race I've ever been to was over once the winner received the checkered flag.
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September 13, 2025 at
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That's a good question because that call was shady. Kofoid should get credit for 2 wins on that one. The WoO makes some dumb calls and has some crappy rules for sure.
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September 13, 2025 at
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The yellow was called on the driver radio BEFORE Buddy crossed the scoring loop. If you go back and watch the Dirtvision replay, the scoring ticker displays yellow before and not checkered. I mistakenly mentioned "only one car crossing the line" because any lap other than the last lap requires two cars (leader plus one other, whether a lapped car or second place) for the lap to count.
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September 13, 2025 at
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I thought it was a ripoff too.
But Johnny's explanation makes sense, I guess rules are rules
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September 13, 2025 at
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Posted By: Johnny Gibson on September 13 2025 at 05:41:52 PM
The yellow was called on the driver radio BEFORE Buddy crossed the scoring loop. If you go back and watch the Dirtvision replay, the scoring ticker displays yellow before and not checkered. I mistakenly mentioned "only one car crossing the line" because any lap other than the last lap requires two cars (leader plus one other, whether a lapped car or second place) for the lap to count.
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Thanks for the clarification. I went back and watched the Dirtvision replays several times. It looks like the yellow flag indicator lit up a split second before the checkers flew.
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September 15, 2025 at
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I think this proves that sometimes we don't know all the details when a decision is made and our knee jerk reaction is to call foul.
Thanks for the explanation Mr. Gibson.
Keep It Real
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September 15, 2025 at
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I stand by my original view. Calls like that are to much like nascar to me. Split second, come on. What video has this caution light on showing it. The one I watched Kofoid blazes under the checkers as gibson says caution.
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September 15, 2025 at
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Posted By: highspeeddirt on September 15 2025 at 12:04:04 PM
I stand by my original view. Calls like that are to much like nascar to me. Split second, come on. What video has this caution light on showing it. The one I watched Kofoid blazes under the checkers as gibson says caution.
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If you know anything about reaction time, then you'd know that in order for Gibson to yell "caution" as Kofoid crossed under the checkers, the caution had to come out prior to Kofoid crossing the checkers. (Unless Gibson has super-human powers that allow him to react instantly to hearing the words caution in his ear) And seeing how fast they're going, Kofoid was likely still coming out of 4 when the caution was officially called.
So by definition, this means the leader didn't take the checkers before the caution was called. Johnny already explained it.
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