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Article: Once unclear, yellow-line rule is now black & white.(Sports)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- October 7, 2008
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By Dustin Long
The Virginian-Pilot
TALLADEGA, Ala.
NASCAR is discovering that rules with gray areas don't always work.
A sanctioning body that once prided itself on flexible rules again turned a gray area into black and white Sunday after a controversial finish to the Sprint Cup race at Talladega Superspeedway.
Series officials announced Monday what they called a rules clarification to passing under the yellow line at Daytona and Talladega. In essence, NASCAR said clearly and without equivocation that drivers can't go below the yellow line to pass in any circumstance.
Comments by NASCAR spokespeople in February 2007 ...