NASCAR has shortened races due to impending darkness before, but the timing of Sunday's decision left some questioning its fairness. But NASCAR's COO Steve O'Donnell says the sanctioning body is 'more than comfortable' with the way the decision was made.
) were among those who had gained substantial track position after pitting just prior to the call being made. Looking through the finishing order, half of the top-ten finishers were beneficiaries of the call to shorten the race while the other half were forced to pit at an inopportune time because of it.
"Yeah, I would say there was a lot of thought put into that decision," said O'Donnell."At the time we made it, we waited as long as possible to see if we could get all 100 laps in. When we knew that wasn't possible, we waited, we closed pit road. We wanted to make sure everybody knew what the race distance was going to be. Everyone had a chance to come in, pit the car, get fuel. We wanted to take fuel mileage out of it.
"I think we've had conversations with some who may have thought it was unfair who pitted on the same lap that the leader did and won. "I think we're more than comfortable with the way the decision was made in this case. Certainly it can be second-guessed anytime you have to do this, but I feel like the process played out well. Would have liked to get all 100, but we wanted to be as fair as possible for the fans and also not put ourselves in a position where we're getting questions of why are you racing in the dark.
The fact that NASCAR got the race in on Sunday at all shocked many who were watching. Record rainfall in the city completely flooded the street course and forced the sanctioning body to make the unprecedented decision to end the already postponed NASCAR Xfinity race, which never reached halfway.
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