From the AP: Rusty “Wallace was forced to make a stop-and-go pit stop after NASCAR ruled he had jumped the gun on the restart to begin the 478th lap. After leading 220 laps in what was clearly the strongest car, he wound up finishing 15th. ‘They rule it, and they can do what they want,’ Wallace said of NASCAR. ‘I’m going to talk to them a little bit about it, because I’ve got a feeling who it was. The guy has had a grudge for me for a long time, and I’m going to go talk to him. This is ridiculous. I’ve never seen nothing like it.’ He did not name the NASCAR official to whom he was referring.”(AP) NASCAR officials said they had warned Wallace’s team at least twice to watch their restarts before penalizing him(SpeedNet)(9-29-97)
