They have no place for them.”īacklash to NASCAR’s ban on the rebel flag has been almost immediate, with some claiming they will no longer attend or support the organization. The latest directive comes just days after one of the popular drivers - and only African American racing in its top circuit - Darrell “Bubba” Wallace called for the flag’s ouster.Īs we reported Tuesday, Wallace told CNN on Monday, “No one should feel uncomfortable when they come to a NASCAR race. His remarks were prompted by the killing of nine African Americans who were shot in a South Carolina church.įrance subsequently implemented a flag exchange program at all racing events in which fans could trade in a Confederate flag for an American one. In 2015, then-NASCAR CEO and Chairman Brian France referred to the flag as an “ offensive and divisive symbol.” NASCAR has for years been under pressure to ban the flag which has long been prevalent at its racetracks and flown on RVs at its infields on race days. Cars driven by Reed Sorenson and Clint Bowyer crashed and were eliminated on the spot all four Stewart-Haas Racing cars, among others, failed to advance to the final round.Confederate-themed flags fly in the infield before a NASCAR race at Darlington Raceway in South Carolina in 2015. The result of sending the cars out in bunches was calamitous. That was the situation at Daytona - one car at a time - until this year. Although Indy, too, has messed around with the procedure in recent years, the cars still go out on the track one at a time. Ind圜ar also has knockout qualifying at all races except for the Indianapolis 500. Yet in going to group qualifying instead of sticking with the traditional, tried-and-true, single-car qualifying procedure it has employed forever, it borrowed from Formula One and Ind圜ar.į1 uses knockout qualifying at all its races (in which all cars go out on the track in the beginning and over several timed segments all but the fastest cars are eliminated and the survivors compete for the pole).
Will their weeping and wailing have any effect on NASCAR? We can only hope, but the fact that NASCAR went in this direction in the first place is interesting in itself. Except for Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson, who locked up the two front-row starting positions for next weekend’s “Great American Race,” all of the remaining 47 drivers were spitting nails. So what was NASCAR thinking when it decided to mess around with that last one? The result was not unexpected: qualifying was a schmozzle right from the first green flag of the day at the Daytona International Speedway on Sunday. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the Bible and single-car qualifying for the Indianapolis and Daytona 500s top my list.
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