This seemed to work OK until a spate of fan injuries in green-white-checkered finishes in the Truck, Xfinity and Cup series at Daytona and Talladega Superspeedway from 2012-15. The solution was to ...

Runner-up Marcus Ericsson did not hesitate to voice his disappointment in the decision for the white/green finish instead of ending on a caution, giving Newgarden the opportunity to overtake him.

We had seven or eight green-white-checkered finishes. And then, we went to three attempts and we just wrecked in all three of them. Especially when you get to the superspeedway races.

Ericsson, the 2022 race winner, blasted that move. “I don't think it's safe to go out of the pits on cold tires for a restart when half the field is sort of still trying to get out on track when ...