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Nice to see one of the underdogs in victory lane.

The irony in your post would have been lost if not for the two notorious dipshits in your avatar.

neat to see Clements finally get a win.

It was a crazy moment. <shrugs>

Fun fact: Jeremy Clements is the first Nascar driver to win a race after spinning within the final 2 laps. I also just made this fact up.

You may be right. The only other thing I can think of is the wacky finish to the 2003 Busch Series race at Darlington where Bodine and McMurray crashed across the finish line. Nobody remembers that race because of the Cup finish that weekend.

I have a hard time imagining anyone else has ever managed that. Unless someone with like a 3-lap lead in one of those random short-track Grand National series races in the 1950s-60s had a late spin.

It was also run on a Monday. That doesn't help much. Bodine didn't really spin though. He sort of bounces along the wall while McMurray spun into the inside wall.

Another fact, Clements is the last driver to win a NASCAR race who was also suspended for saying the N word.

lol


Do we know that for sure, though? I don't recall ever seeing what he actually said.

During conversation with a reporter, he had apparently used the word 'nigger rig' in the same way people say 'jerry rig' while describing how they setup their cars on a shoestring budget and that reporter ran with it.

But that aside, the case for more road courses just keeps getting stronger. Where else other than a super speedway can a low budget car like that win against the Cup cars masquerading as JGR NXS cars? Even at the few remaining short tracks on the calendar you don't see that anymore.

What about the finish of the 1976 Daytona 500?

Well...there ya go.

Or the night race at Bristol in 1995...

I thought of that but I don't think it really counts. I mean, he was wrecked across the line. He didn't spin/crash, recover from it, and then have to go ahead and win.

I actually remember watching that race live. I was a senior in high school and had a graphics design class for the first two periods of the day. The teacher put it on a projector while we did no work and watched Newgrounds and Homestar Runner videos

Oh man. Newgrounds. Good times.

The Adventures of Scrotum the Puppy changed my life

Hah, I remember it too. Also a HS senior. We must have had the day off or something because I watched it at home. What made that day more memorable though: our first legit family PC was delivered later that afternoon. And a few months later, I joined this den of sadness.