Last Saturday night's Richmond race was pretty interesting as fates of drivers changed hands quickly during the different late-race cautions.
But one in particular, was when Tony Stewart was trouncing the field in his clean air and looking like the race was his to lose.
That is, until the debris caution.
Now maybe I looked away and maybe they just didn't cover it, but I don't remember seeing on the TV coverage from Fox, the debris. Tony Stewart's been quoted in grumbling about the debris being a plastic water bottle. But he had additional issues when his pit crew flubbed it up a bit too.
But others saw a piece of sheet metal being picked up, so maybe Tony was focused on the wrong thing.
Regardless, Dave Moody said he saw the metallic debris getting picked up and that is wasn't a water bottle. He added during his Sirius XM NASCAR broadcast that drivers constantly toss out water bottles after leaving pit road and the they usually drift down the embankment towards the inside wall. And we don't see cautions for those.
So be it as it may, while fans are getting in a tizzy about the mystery caution, it seems the Fox dropped the ball again on covering the debris.
Why?
Because fans get suspicious when yellow flags come out at wonderfully opportune times to gather up the field and they need to be soothed. At least the logical ones do.
In jest, some were suggesting that the track man who picks up the debris should hold it up and pose with it until the TV coverage catches it. I say put a helmet cam on the man, or make him tweet a picture of what he picks up.
Either way would be good evidence that would circumvent telecast oversights.
I was at the race and watched a fan throw the bottle over the fence. We seen it hit and explode. It was out there for about 4 laps before the caution came out.
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