If the leader laps all others and then wrecks what lap does the race continue on?

Question

I have seen a race in which the leader actually had all the other cars 2 or more laps down due to untimly pit stops and cautions. What would have happened if he had then wrecked causing black flag conditions, when the race resumed after clearing the track,would the rest of the field have had to "make up" the laps they were down or would the race continue from the first car in line (ie: resume at the lap number of the next lead car)

Answer 1

First off all its a red flag situation not a black flag situation and if it was a NASCAR race the first car 1 lap down would go back on the lead lap and be in 2nd place. After that the other lapped cars would have to make up their laps the old fashioned way(passing the leader).

Answer 2

It would work the same way for the Leader as it does for any other position. There won't be a new "Leader" until someone turns 1 more lap than the crashed Leader turned.

The race would resume at what ever lap number the Leader was on when the Leader crashed to bring out the Red Flag, but you won't see the lap # change until a car has gone 1 lap further than the crashed Leader. The new Leader would still have to drive 500 miles.

There would be one Lucky Dog and if all cars were say 3 laps down to the Leader at the time of the crash, the Lucky Dog would only be two laps down to the crashed Leader.

As soon as the Lucky Dog drives 1 more lap than the crashed Leader completed he would then be credited with the Lead and the race lap count would finally increment 1 lap more than the crashed Leader had run. The crashed Leader car would drop to second place for 2 laps and when the whole field drives 1 more lap than the crashed Leader, he would drop to last place.

All other cars would still be down 2 laps to the new Lucky Dog leader.

Now, here is something really bazaar, but it illustrates how it would work.

Say the leader is up 3 laps and crashes just past the halfway point of the race. They Red Flag the race to clean up the track and immediately a heavy downpour of rain moves in. Although the Leader's car is temporarily, at least, out of the race, he has still driven further than every other car. If the race were halted and called "official" so no other cars can drive as far as the crashed Leader, the crashed Leader would still be the winner!

What I have always wondered is, if no car makes it the prescribed distance, is there a Winner? I believe that in order for the purse to be paid out, the race must have at least 1 car go the distance unless the event is shortened due to weather and called "official".

Answer 3

There's so many things wrong with the statements that make up this question but to answer it the leader... is the one that marks laps. If everyone else ends up 105 laps down and the leader is completing the final scheduled lap... that's what lap number it is. The leader of the race is always the deciding factor.

If in the instance where the leader who had all of the other cars two laps down is out of the race for good then the first car 1 lap down would take the leaders position and the race would continue to count out from the number of the last lap the leader who had crashed out ran. Mind you that's the current standard with Nextel.. so like anything else that could change by the time you read this.

Answer 4

I can put it this way. Say a leader is 20 laps ahead of the second place car, and it's lap 200. The leader crashes. He's in the garage trying to fix his car. The race is still going on. The second place car does not take the lead immediately. He has to make up the 20 laps he's behind. The leader who crashed will be the leader until the next cars in line can unlap themselves.

If a leader is one lap ahead and they take the white flag, but the leader crashes before he gets to the checkered, then the second place guy will have to pass the crashed leader, take his own white flag (cause he just unlapped himself), and then make one more lap before he wins the race.

Answer 5

if the leader does not loose a lap when he wrecks, it would resume on his lap. if the leader lost a lap or laps and the second place car passed him even under caution it would start on the new leaders lap. basically the laps are counted for each car and if a car is unable to complete a lap it stays on the lap that it was on when it could not continue. black flag, green flag, yellow flag, red flag, it don't matter. that took a lot out of me! I have to rest now.

Answer 6

No you do not win in case you crash once you have one lap to flow then they wont declare you as a winner as a results of fact for which you will would desire to finished the finished song with the intention to win the race. Carlos Kauffmann has carried out the call as a results of fact the perfect race automobile driving force of the year 2010. Carlos Kauffmann loves racing vehicles and he has seen maximum of races in and around Europe. he's somewhat versed in using bright and extremely high priced activities vehicles.

Answer 7

Ummm look up LUCKY DOG and you have your answer. And it is yellow flag conditions (Caution). For future reference Red Flag is impassable conditions (Stopped), Black Flag is Nascar Single Disciplinary Conditions for a specific driver (hey you stinking racer you pissed us off). My version anyway.

Answer 8

Black flag?I think you mean red.But any way the race would pick up on the "new"leaders lap.

Answer 9

the leader lap is always the leader no matter how many a previous leader ran.

Answer 10

same lap the race was on when the crash happened.