Green means go, white means the final lap and the checker means the end.
Simply put, the green-white-checker relates to the flags in the race. That prompted another rethink and the green-white-checker was implemented mid-2004 across all the NASCAR series. Again bottles, chairs and rubbish was thrown onto the track. NASCAR then tried a red flag rule where the last red could be no fewer than five laps from the end, anything after that was a caution and the field was frozen.īut again fans showed their frustration, this time at the 2004 Aaron's 499 at Talladega where Jeff Gordon beat Dale Earnhardt Jr because of that caution. NASCAR opted to end the race under caution with Michael Waltrip taking the win ahead of Rusty Wallace, and the fans expressed their anger - and that wasn't even a manipulated result such as F1's 2021 Abu Dhabi race.
With four laps to go, the race had its ninth caution of the day when Ryan Newman, Jeff Green and Dave Blaney crashed on the back straight. They did so in part after fans revolted at the 2002 Pepsi 400, throwing beer bottles, seat cushions, and pretty much whatever they could get their hands on when the race finished under yellow. NASCAR, however you feel about the 'rubbing is racing' series, will never face such a dilemma as it has the overtime rule, the green-white-checker.Īlthough throughout most of its history NASCAR races only went the advertised distance, in 2004 the sport decided to implement the overtime rule across all three of its divisions. Planet Sport explains how NASCAR's simple two-lap overtime means every race ends with actual racing. Lewis Hamilton lost out on a record-breaking eighth world title while Max Verstappen's first will always carry whispers that it was gifted to him. The 2021 Formula 1 World Championship went from a fight to a farce as, determined not to finish the race and have the championship title decided behind a Safety Car, the Race Director made the controversial - and subsequently declared illegal although not in so many words - call to allow only some cars to unlap themselves in order to get the race restarted. It all could have been avoided had Formula 1 used NASCAR's green-white-checker flag rule.
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