Wallace against green-white-checkered finishes

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) -- With four of the last seven Nextel Cup races having finished under a yellow caution flag, NASCAR is considering a rules change that would give the drivers an opportunity to finish under green.

	Rusty Wallace

The most likely scenario in the case of a caution in the last few laps of the race would be to restart the cars with both the white one-lap-to-go flag and green displayed simultaneously.

"We're currently evaluating it," NASCAR spokesman Mike Zizzo said Saturday. "It's possible you could see it sometime later this year. But rumors it could happen as early as next week in Daytona aren't true."

Rusty Wallace hates the idea.

"They're talking about making it mandatory that it's green-white-checkered finishes so the fans don't get upset," the former series champion and longtime star said. "I don't agree with that and I'll be the first one politicking that you shouldn't do that.

"All these race fans drinking beer and screaming and hollering have not been in a helicopter upside down with 30 tubes hanging out of you after going end-over-end 30 times like I've been before because of these green-white starts. I think it's ridiculous and it's unsafe."

Wallace said he knows his stand on this won't be popular with many of the fans.

"I'll take some heat, probably, but it's just the wrong thing to do," he said. "I'm not willing to do it to make the fans happy. They've been here all week long and they've seen 495 miles of racing and they'll just have to give up that last five miles of racing."