Just Sayin’: All-Star Race Format Was Confusing
By Jared Turner Stop Changing The All-Star Format Multiple drivers – most notably Tony Stewart, Dale Earnhardt Jr. and Matt Kenseth – left Saturday night’s Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway scratching their heads about a confusing set of rules that resulted in major angst among participants in the popular non-points paying event. Stewart, a three-time Sprint Cup Series champion who was the most outspoken of the bunch, went as far as to call it “the most screwed up All-Star Race ever.” At the center of the controversy was a mandatory green flag pit stop that jumbled up the running order,…