May 3, 2014 Highland Speedway Results

How was hoffman and bielong scored ahead of Conner? They went out the caution before?
 
crash9 said:
How was hoffman and bielong scored ahead of Conner? They went out the caution before?
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Did Conner score the same amount of laps as Hoffman and Bielong? What I am trying to say is if they did not get a complete lap scored between the time that Hoffman and Bielong went out and the time that Conner went out then they scored the same amount of laps and Hoffman and Bielong did it first. So Conner may have took the green flag after the yellow that took out Hoffman and Bielong but he did not score another lap. This has come up before over the years but that is the only explanation I can think of.
 
glbert said:
Did Conner score the same amount of laps as Hoffman and Bielong? What I am trying to say is if they did not get a complete lap scored between the time that Hoffman and Bielong went out and the time that Conner went out then they scored the same amount of laps and Hoffman and Bielong did it first. So Conner may have took the green flag after the yellow that took out Hoffman and Bielong but he did not score another lap. This has come up before over the years but that is the only explanation I can think of.
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They did take the next green however the next green had the pileup on the start on the front stretch. They never completed an additional lap therefore you still go back to the last completed lap when everyone was still in
 
I can see where this gets tricky, and hard to comprehend, but this is the gist I'm getting:

To simplify this: Say you have 3 cars running 7-8-9. Car in 7th (car 1) blows a motor during the race, drawing the caution before the lap is complete. So even though he's out, car 1 is still technically scored in 7th. 8th place (car 2) and 9th place (car 3) don't move up until they complete the next lap under green. Green comes out, 8th and 9th wreck each other BEFORE a lap is complete, and cannot continue. They would still be scored BEHIND car 1.

I know it's weird, but that's what seems to be happening here.
 
I understood, thats kinda crappy though. Those guys should have been listed as the last cars on the lead lap at that point though and whoever was in the pileup should have been scored in front of them. Didnt affect our pay though so im not gonna worry about it anymore.
 
Moon, You are correct on the scoring. A lot of the tracks would score it like that and the computerized scoring will score it like that. The reasoning is that you cannot pass a car on a caution, which is what is happening if you were to do it any other way. However you pass the start finish line on lap whatever is your position until you pass it again on green flag conditions to advance to the next lap.

HOWEVER.......

There are some tracks that I have been to that would score the original car that blew the motor last, then whoever caused the next caution after the restart would be 8th and the other car involved 7th.
 
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