Do you agree that Dario got hosed?

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Dario Franchitti complained about the draw for starting positions in the second race in the Twin 275s at Texas Speedway. He did that BEFORE the draw happened saying it was unfair to have a completely random starting lineup for a points paying race. NASCAR has a couple races that have draws for the starting grid, but those races do not count in the championship. Will Power got a good spot and went on to win his first ever oval race while Dario started in the back and never got to the front.

Dario said that the only fair way to mix up the starting grid would be to invert the field, run the second heat in reverse order of the first, which would give the same relative advantage or disadvantage to everybody

After the second race Will has a 5 point lead on Dario. Is Franchitti righteously ticked off or was the draw for position fair?

Spike · Accepted Answer

That definitely gave Will an unfair advantage over Dario. I hope they never do that again.

Jay · Answer

You also can't ignore the fact that it was a caution free race, which is very rare. One caution flag would've bunched the field back up and given everyone a chance to pit and maybe make up some spots on pit lane. Some days you're the bug, some days you're the windshield. If I was in charge, I probably would've just inverted the field, but that also leads to drivers maybe laying back in race 1 to get a better starting spot in race 2. The whole two race deal is new anyway, so it's not going to be perfect.

austin · Answer

totally got hosed, it would have been more fair if at least he got a chance to pick a number! Championships should not be based on purely luck of a draw that he had no part of!

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Do you agree that Dario got hosed?

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