The rain-postponed NASCAR Sprint Cup Series AdvoCare 500 took place at Altanta Motor Speedway on Tuesday, 9-6-11. After being delayed from Sunday night, the race got under way with grey skies abound. It turned out to be an eye-popper of a finish between Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson.
The only problem with the timing of a Tuesday NASCAR race is the lack of abundant online streaming access to the race that isn’t provided by ESPN/NASCAR. There was ESPN on the television, SiriusXM and the streaming MRN broadcast from the NASCAR home page.
We also had the NASCAR updates via Twitter, depending on who you follow. Race apps didn’t seem to be cutting it either as Twitter was full of folks trying to get access to the race and grumbling.
I got home with 100 laps to go. Unfortunately the rain-postponed race was in rain-delay mode. During the rain delay, when the flag came out for this rain, J.J. Yeley (25th) and Landon Cassill (22nd) had stayed out and were one-two in the line. Then the cars were started up and the two leaders waited out the first caution laps, and then they were given the 1-to-go sign and they came in for fuel and tires.
But then, less then two laps later, another rain caution came out.
Then the waited again for a little bit.
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