the unofficial results that were posted originally on NBC and nascar.com [Leaderboard/and unofficial results – but they were corrected later] have been revised by NASCAR Media. #12-Newman was 9th, now is 31st; #32-Fellows was 10th, now 32nd WHY? on the last lap both ran thru the inner-loop, bypassing it without stopping and were penalized 30 seconds, dropping both to the end of the lead lap.
REVISION 2: the last 2 weeks sure are cofusing – another revision…this time:
Position Changes: No. 12 – 31st to 8th; No. 60 – 6th to 31st. — no reason given.
OFFICIAL results will be released sometime Monday, usually sometime after 12noon/et, so the results/points could change again as is the case each week as NASCAR reviews the scoring loop feeds and video. Official Results are posted.(8-13-2006)
UPDATEs: Both #60-Boris Said and #32-Ron Fellows were denied top 10-finishes in the AMD at the Glen on Sunday after receiving 30-second penalties from NASCAR officials for an incident on the final lap of the 90-lap event. Said, who crossed the finish line in sixth after a demanding day, and Fellows, who was 10th, ended up 31st and 32nd, respectively. Both overshot the Inner Loop and were penalized for not stopping at the exit before blending back into the race. #40-Scott Pruett, who had been seventh, moved up a spot to sixth in the final results as a result of Said’s misfortune [as did #38-Sadler, from 8th to 7th].(Elmira Star Gazette)
AND #12-Ryan Newman’s broken motor mounts proved to be the least of his problems in a NASCAR post-race that saw him first assessed a penalty then have it lifted. Newman raced in the top three entering the closing laps of the AMD at the Glen NASCAR Nextel Cup race Sunday. With about 15 laps to go, the motor mounts broke in his car. Then he made contact with Boris Said, and both went through the inner loop. After the race, NASCAR first deemed that Newman had not stopped – as required – after the slip, and he was docked a 30-second penalty, dropping him to 31st. The call was later reversed, and the finishing order recalculated with Newman in eighth. Said, meanwhile, dropped from sixth on the initial report to, ironically, 31st in the final rundown [when assessed the penalty].”The motor was just sitting there flopping around, and the throttle was hanging on me wide open,” Newman said of the final laps with his Penske Racing South Dodge. “I was using the kill switch to shut it off. That’s why I dropped back those last two laps. It was hanging really bad. I had my hands full. Boris got into the back of me. I don’t know what I did or what he did. It doesn’t matter. I was using up a lot of the race track, and he turned me around. We kept going and finished the race.” Said, running under the Front Row Motorsports [#61] banner with his #60 No Fear Racing team, was a little less understanding of the final-lap incident. “I really wanted fifth, and I was disappointed in Ryan Newman,” he said. “He was running out of gas on the last lap, and it’s OK to block one way, but he blocked me once and moved twice, and I got into him. I couldn’t help it. I was already committed to that side, so I was disappointed in that.”(SceneDaily.com)
AND II: Boris Said was originally listed sixth but was moved to 31st after a postrace video review showed NASCAR he failed to stop when he bypassed the Inner Loop during a last-lap accident. The same review moved Ryan Newman, listed originally in 31st, into eighth place.(Buffalo News)
AND III and a full Said story at Ford Racing.com……that should cover it.(8-14-2006)
