A red flag would have helped alleviate the lengthy caution that sent the NASCAR Cup Series race at Daytona International Speedway into overtime last Saturday.
The yellow flag for the Turn 4 crash involving Carson Hocevar and Erik Jones lasted nine laps. That went four laps past the scheduled distance and left many teams concerned about having enough fuel to reach the finish after circling for so long under the yellow flag.
“Hindsight being 20/20, we wish we had red-flagged it,” NASCAR vice president of racing communications Mike Forde said on the latest episode of the “Hauler Talk” podcast. “Our goal is always to get back to green as soon as possible. I think we felt that we would be able to clean it up faster than we did, and it really was the worst-case scenario.”
— NASCAR.com —