{"id":63550,"date":"2025-08-06T21:48:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:48:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63550\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T21:48:21","slug":"freddie-kraft-calls-out-nascar-for-missed-caution-at-iowa-affected-the-race-greatly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/63550\/","title":{"rendered":"Freddie Kraft calls out NASCAR for missed caution at Iowa: ‘Affected the race greatly’"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASCAR<\/a> decided not to throw the yellow on Lap 222 of this past Saturday\u2019s Xfinity Series race at Iowa Speedway as Matt DiBenedetto was leaking oil on the racetrack. It wasn\u2019t until the following lap, when Brandon Jones spun out after driving through the oil in Turn 2, that NASCAR threw the yellow. <\/p>\n

Freddie Kraft, spotting for Dean Thompson, said on Monday\u2019s \u201cDoor Bumper Clear<\/a>\u201d podcast that he was told from the pit box there was oil on the racetrack. He criticized NASCAR for not throwing the caution immediately, saying it \u201caffected the race greatly.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, they absolutely missed it, and it affected the race greatly,\u201d Kraft said. \u201cThey missed it to the point to where the 99 [DiBenedetto]\u2013 I don\u2019t know what happened \u2014 he ran into the back of someone into [Turn] 1, like knocked the nose off the car. If was bad enough to where my crew chief is yelling at me, \u2018There\u2019s oil all over Turn 1, be careful.\u2019 Well, if my f*cking crew chief knows this, then the people in the tower should know this \u2014 it was on TV. The problem for me is I don\u2019t understand why everyone but NASCAR seemed to know there was fluid over there. <\/p>\n

\u201cJesse Love lost the lead because of this. The 20 car spun out because of this, ruined his race. This is the stuff we talked about \u2014 you go back to Chicago and we\u2019re talking about corner workers. Where\u2019s that guy in Turn 2 that says, \u2018Hey, there\u2019s shit all over the racetrack. You\u2019ve got to throw the f*cking yellow here.\u2019 We can\u2019t all go piling into Turn 1 with oil all over the racetrack. \u2026 I know this is not an easy job from the tower, I get it. But, like, if my crew chief knows there\u2019s shit all over the racetrack, the tower needs to know there\u2019s shit all over the racetrack.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jesse Love lost the lead at Iowa because of oil on the racetrack<\/p>\n

Before the caution came out, Sam Mayer passed Jesse Love for the lead. Love said after the race that a slip in oil is what cost him at Iowa. He didn\u2019t fault NASCAR for not throwing the caution.<\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, but it\u2019s not NASCAR\u2019s fault,\u201d Love told Frontstretch<\/a>. \u201cI couldn\u2019t see it. The repave is dark enough to where you can\u2019t see when oil is put down. I got in there and thought I blew a left front and then kind of gripped out of the oil. At that point, the caution came out just a tick too late. Lost the lead because of it and made it really hard for me to win it after that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mayer won the race, while Love finished runner-up. He said he was unaware there was oil on the track. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat is really what turned our race around and gave us the opportunity,\u201d Mayer said. \u201cI\u2019d rather be lucky than good sometimes, but we were a little bit of both today.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR decided not to throw the yellow on Lap 222 of this past Saturday\u2019s Xfinity Series race at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":63551,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[425,99],"class_list":["post-63550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nascar","tag-nascar","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/63551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}