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Another erstwhile NASCAR operator is accusing the stockcar circuit of manipulating races successful an effort to prosecute fans.
Speaking connected Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s podcast, Casey Mears named 3 2005 races wherever helium felt a apt triumph was taken from him by a precocious caution flag.
'You consciousness similar determination was a precocious yellowish successful that contention that you were gonna win?' asked Earnhardt.
'100 percent,' Mears responded.
Mears had the aforesaid reply erstwhile Earnhardt asked if the caution flags were unnecessary.
'And you felt like, if you had won that race, your full vocation would've been different?' Earnhardt asked.
Speaking connected Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s podcast, Casey Mears named 3 2005 races wherever helium felt a apt triumph was taken from him by a precocious caution flag
Casey Mears (pictured successful the No. 41 car) believes a precocious caution outgo him successful Atlanta successful 2005
Former NASCAR operator Carl Edwards was frustrated by a arguable caution emblem successful 2016
It was past that Mears launched into a elaborate answer, naming 3 specified races.
'We were starring Texas astatine the end, had a caution with similar 5 to go,' helium said. 'We were starring Atlanta, had a caution with similar six oregon 8 to go. And we were starring Homestead with 17 to go.
'It was purely an accidental to marque the racing much exciting.'
Mears made it wide helium doesn't deliberation helium was targeted by NASCAR.
Rather, helium believes circuit officials were conspiring to marque a photograph finish, oregon thing approaching that.
'I don't deliberation that they did that successful a mode of, you know, 'We request this different feline to triumph the race,' Mears said. 'And I got to say, the fans, from a fan's perspective, to get similar a green, achromatic oregon chequered oregon a precocious contention run, it was exciting. You know, I can't accidental that it was wrong, you know, but I tin accidental it didn't enactment successful my favor.'
DailyMail.com has reached retired to NASCAR spokespeople for comment.
Earnhardt Jr. heard akin allegations from erstwhile NASCAR operator Carl Edwards past month.
And conscionable similar Mears, Edwards' 2016 incidental besides took spot astatine Homestead successful South Florida.
'I cognize NASCAR was throwing those cautions to marque it much exciting,' Edwards said. 'That's a fact.'
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