I'm sorry folks, but this should be your winner from yesterday's race at Kansas. As much as it would have been nice to feel warm and fuzzy with Greg Biffle getting his first win of the year, that is just not going to happen. He never should have been rewarded the victory.

Here's a statement from Ramsey Poston, NASCAR Managing Director, Corporate Communications:

“When the caution came out on Lap 207 the field was frozen. At the time of the caution, the 16 was in the lead and maintained a reasonable speed and was declared the race winner. There is no passing under caution.

“By rule, cars under caution need to maintain a reasonable speed, which the 16 did. If it hadn’t maintained a reasonable speed or the car had come to a stop, then that car would not have won the race. In this instance the 16 maintained a reasonable speed, crossed the finish and won the race.”

Despite what he says, I really don't think he maintained a reasonable speed. I do realize that they freeze the field under caution but he absolutely did not maintain speed, the pace car was leaving him.

As a matter of fact, Johnson and Bowyer had to pass him while he was down on the apron. When was the last time you watched a race and saw others cross the finish line BEFORE the "race winner?" I think that's another load of BS from NASCAR. What do you think?

Moving on...because I'm getting all worked up and grumpy all over again as I type this.

It was another wild race for a lot of the Chase drivers. Here's a few notes on what happened to some of them:

Kyle Busch - Crashed into the wall early on. (thanks to Dale Earnhardt Jr.)
Martin Truex Jr. - Was involved in a wreck shortly after the restart from being red-flagged due to heavy rain.
Matt Kenseth - Victim of the same wreck that Truex was involved in.
Jeff Burton - He got caught pulling a fender out while uncovering his car from the rain delay. He got penalized and sent back to the longest line on the restart of the race. Then to make matters worse, later in the race he lost fuel pressure.
Tony Stewart - He blew a tire. He was checked up on the race track and Kurt Busch hit him. (And no, I don't think it was Busch's fault.)
Car Edwards - He got collected up from Stewart's wreck.
Denny Hamlin - It looked like Jamie McMurray got into Paul Menard then Menard got into Hamlin. Just a victim of circumstance.

Bowyer, Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Kevin Harvick all finished in the top 10. Kurt Busch finished 11th.

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