It's not unheard of, especially at a restrictor plate track, to have a crash happen behind the leaders and not have the caution flag fly. If that was truly the case, as USA Today's Nate Ryan ...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – There's no debate: NASCAR should have thrown the caution flag on the final lap of the Daytona 500. As Joey Logano led Kevin Harvick and Dale Earnhardt Jr. down the ...

Chastain and Cindric both spun an instant before Byron took the white flag, but the caution was thrown a moment after Byron passed the start-finish line to take the white flag. At least one other ...

NASCAR announced the format for the 2025 edition of the race on Wednesday and this year’s iteration includes an optional caution flag that can be thrown before lap 220 of the 250-lap race.

Once the flagman realized the caution lights were on — but not realizing what had happened — he used his discretion and threw the yellow flag. NASCAR froze the field and expected to return to ...

Finishing a race under caution — when the yellow flag is out and yellow lights are flashing — is hardly ideal because drivers aren't actually racing. They're maintaining their track positions ...

Michael Waltrip was appointed as the person to wave the yellow flag for the Promoter’s Caution during this past Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race. But nobody told Waltrip to actually throw it.

Unlike many racing bodies, NASCAR does not revert back to the order of the last completed green-flag lap when there's a caution. Drivers used to race to the finish line when a yellow flag came out ...

A planned caution flag was waved on Lap 215 of the NASCAR All-Star Race at North Wilkesboro Speedway. Former NASCAR Cup driver Michael Waltrip was given the authority to decide when to throw the ...

Under unfavorable circumstances, if a race reached the scheduled distance under a caution flag, the sanctioning body could then allow for an overtime run. This would allow the remaining drivers to ...

On the final lap of Saturday’s second-tier Xfinity Series race, there was a multi-car crash behind the leaders — except officials declined to throw the caution flag in that instance.

HAMPTON, Ga. — NASCAR stated Sunday that it should have thrown the caution flag on the last lap of Saturday night’s Xfinity race and if the situation happens again in today’s Cup race at Atlanta Motor ...