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Friday Night at Spartan Speedway, on the undercard for the Pavement Sprints was the Bandolero division. Small kits cars. The drivers are anywhere from 8-14 years old they said.
In one of the heats, on the last lap coming through Turn 4, the car leading was punted by the second place car. Classic right fender to left rear. The flagman checkered it as the now lead car (former second place car) crossed the line first. The previous lead car spun and wound up crossing the line last out of 6-7 cars.
Immediately the car doing the punting was DQ-ed. Nothing new. So who gets the win - the car that was SPUN and crossed the line last! Not the second car crossing the line.
Never saw a call like that. Anyone else? Usually you get the DQ and whoever was first after that gets the win. The car spun...... tough luck. Now, granted, these are kids racing, and maybe there is a "fair play" rule, or something? Is this a rule/call used in karting by chance?
Just wondering.....
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