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FURCAR Photo Finish Closest Ever, Victory Lane Gets Crowded
12 years ago
By Dr. Harry Paunch, FSPN Motorsports Reporter
The FURCAR Series' smallest track provided huge excitement on Sunday as the series tackled the tricky paperclip-shaped Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. At only .526-mile around, little Martinsville is the smallest track that FURCAR races on, but it may have been witness to the closest finish in the history of racing as Raz Yoshi and Silaria battled nose-to-nose and fender-to-fender at the end of the event. What looked to be in the bag for Raz quickly turned into a duel as the hard-charging Silaria drove her #05 car through lapped traffic and was on the yoshi's bumper with 10 laps to go. From there, she and Raz would wage a fierce battle, with the unicorn able to get alongside Raz's #30 car going into the turns, but Raz was able to get the run out onto the straightaway and keep her at bay. With two laps remaining, the time for playing around was over as Silaria drove hard into the first turn and made contact with Raz, sending him up the track and her to the lead, and it looked like the race was Silaria's as she took the white flag.
But the tables were turned and Raz put the bumper of his car to Silaria, and they went down the backstretch for the final time with the 30 car in front of the 05. In a daring maneuver and with nothing to lose, Silaria tried to make a power move on the outside while Raz hugged the curbing in turns 3 and 4 to guard his lead. The move drew the two cars even as they beat and banged off of each other coming to the checkered flag, the cars perfectly even with each other as they crossed the finish line, leaving the sellout crowd of over 65,000 as well as FURCAR officials scratching their muzzles and asking the same question: Who won the race? FURCAR officials went over the replays and computer scoring monitors to try and determine the winner of the race, going as far as to try and get to the tenth decimal place to see if they could separate the two. In the end, FURCAR decided to declare both Raz Yoshi AND Silaria the winner of the race, and in turned set off one of the greatest burnouts in the history of FURCAR, with both drivers going down the frontstretch toward Turn 1, while Raz doubled back toward Turn 4, and they both made a pass toward each other, filling the front straight and the grandstands with tire smoke and the smell of burnt rubber.
And both drivers were allowed to take their place in Victory Lane as well, with twice as much Gatorade flying as they emerged from their cars. And as customary for race winners at Martinsville, which is also the oldest track on the FURCAR circuit, both drivers will receive one of the most unique trophies in racing: a grandfather clock. There was talk about how they would split it, but in a gesture of kindness and sportsmanship, it was decided by Raz that Silaria should keep the clock in commemoration of her maiden FURCAR victory. For the red yoshi, it was his second career FURCAR victory as he took the checkered flag at last year's race in Atlanta.
However, summing up the afternoon took very little effort in comparison to the intensity of the race. "That was too cool," Raz said when asked about the battle between him and Silaria as he took a sip of Gatorade and went back to the celebrations, "I've never had that happen to me in my FURCAR career and I doubt I will again." Next week, the fastest furs in stock car racing will go from the slowest track to one of the fastest at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway, where pole speeds last season were in excess of 190 mph.
For more FURCAR and Furry Racing news, stay tuned to FSPN - The Worldwide Leader in Furry Sports
(Story written by
croco)
The FURCAR Series' smallest track provided huge excitement on Sunday as the series tackled the tricky paperclip-shaped Martinsville Speedway in Virginia. At only .526-mile around, little Martinsville is the smallest track that FURCAR races on, but it may have been witness to the closest finish in the history of racing as Raz Yoshi and Silaria battled nose-to-nose and fender-to-fender at the end of the event. What looked to be in the bag for Raz quickly turned into a duel as the hard-charging Silaria drove her #05 car through lapped traffic and was on the yoshi's bumper with 10 laps to go. From there, she and Raz would wage a fierce battle, with the unicorn able to get alongside Raz's #30 car going into the turns, but Raz was able to get the run out onto the straightaway and keep her at bay. With two laps remaining, the time for playing around was over as Silaria drove hard into the first turn and made contact with Raz, sending him up the track and her to the lead, and it looked like the race was Silaria's as she took the white flag.
But the tables were turned and Raz put the bumper of his car to Silaria, and they went down the backstretch for the final time with the 30 car in front of the 05. In a daring maneuver and with nothing to lose, Silaria tried to make a power move on the outside while Raz hugged the curbing in turns 3 and 4 to guard his lead. The move drew the two cars even as they beat and banged off of each other coming to the checkered flag, the cars perfectly even with each other as they crossed the finish line, leaving the sellout crowd of over 65,000 as well as FURCAR officials scratching their muzzles and asking the same question: Who won the race? FURCAR officials went over the replays and computer scoring monitors to try and determine the winner of the race, going as far as to try and get to the tenth decimal place to see if they could separate the two. In the end, FURCAR decided to declare both Raz Yoshi AND Silaria the winner of the race, and in turned set off one of the greatest burnouts in the history of FURCAR, with both drivers going down the frontstretch toward Turn 1, while Raz doubled back toward Turn 4, and they both made a pass toward each other, filling the front straight and the grandstands with tire smoke and the smell of burnt rubber.
And both drivers were allowed to take their place in Victory Lane as well, with twice as much Gatorade flying as they emerged from their cars. And as customary for race winners at Martinsville, which is also the oldest track on the FURCAR circuit, both drivers will receive one of the most unique trophies in racing: a grandfather clock. There was talk about how they would split it, but in a gesture of kindness and sportsmanship, it was decided by Raz that Silaria should keep the clock in commemoration of her maiden FURCAR victory. For the red yoshi, it was his second career FURCAR victory as he took the checkered flag at last year's race in Atlanta.
However, summing up the afternoon took very little effort in comparison to the intensity of the race. "That was too cool," Raz said when asked about the battle between him and Silaria as he took a sip of Gatorade and went back to the celebrations, "I've never had that happen to me in my FURCAR career and I doubt I will again." Next week, the fastest furs in stock car racing will go from the slowest track to one of the fastest at the 1.5-mile Texas Motor Speedway, where pole speeds last season were in excess of 190 mph.
For more FURCAR and Furry Racing news, stay tuned to FSPN - The Worldwide Leader in Furry Sports
(Story written by
croco)