O’Donnell explains finish of Camping World Truck Series race
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NASCAR Executive Vice President and Chief Racing Development Officer Steve O'Donnell took to Twitter after Friday's NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Texas Motor Speedway to explain the finish, which was completed under caution, and provide proof of victory.
Race-winner Christopher Bell was declared the victor, picking up his second win of the year, by being ahead of runner-up Chase Briscoe at the time of the 10th and final caution.
The photo NASCAR officials used in making the decision:
In a Monday morning appearance on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio's "The Morning Drive," O'Donnell elaborated on how NASCAR ruled on the finish of that race.
"In terms of that race, any time we take the white flag or we end the race on a caution, we'll use any and all means possible to determine the winner," O'Donnell said. " So first and foremost, we'll go to video and we'll match that up with the exact time of the caution and then how does that match up to the video frames.
"In this case, I think where some of the confusion came about was it was a challenge to get that over to our television partners. They had to get off the air fairly quickly, so I think if you had some more time, that photo would have gone out across the broadcast partners as well and would have saved some of the confusion.
"... We make sure that there is a time stamp and we sync all that up. There's a number of people up in race control that confirm that. We had the dialogue with Chase and his team and they all agreed on Christopher Bell being the winner as well."