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Martin comes up big both on track and off

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02/20/2007 - Philadelphia, PA (Sportsbook Betting Lines) - Mark Martin won the 2007 Daytona 500. Sure, he didn't get the trophy, the huge check or drenched by champagne in Victory Lane, but that doesn't change the fact that he won the race.

In typical NASCAR fashion, the rules were not applied consistently and this time it cost Martin the biggest prize of his career.

To set the scene we must turn back the clock to Sunday - lap 202 of the Daytona 500. Martin has held off the field and is just a short distance from his first Daytona 500 win in 23 attempts. Harvick is flying on the outside with help from Matt Kenseth and is close to catching Martin. Through turn three they go and Kyle Busch gets too low on the track, the rear wheels break loose and he slids up into Kenseth. All hell breaks loose behind the two leaders.

Had it been any other lap in the race, the caution flag would have come out immediately.

But NASCAR is gun-shy to throw the caution flag on the final lap of a race ever since Gordon was declared the winner over Dale Earnhardt Jr, at Talladega in the summer of 2004. The fans almost started a riot after the race, throwing bottles and cans at Gordon as he tried to take his victory lap.

So they let Martin and Harvick decide it on the track. They held the flag behind their back while Clint Bowyer was sliding upside down with flames leaping from the engine.

Harvick edged Martin by 0.020 seconds - about three feet.

"I have no idea what happened behind me," Martin said after the race. "From what my spotter said, I was ahead when they started wrecking."

About two hours after the race had ended, NASCAR changed the ruling saying: "When the No.07 car (Bowyer) went sideways - the No.29 (Harvick) was ahead of the No.01 (Martin) and was declared the winner."

Ten minutes later they reversed that statement by saying the race "ended under the green flag."

Still, Martin is a "gentlemen racer" and he didn't complain about the decision and what might have been. He said in the post-race press conference that he "thought NASCAR made the right decision." Martin is the kind of guy who wants to win the Daytona 500 fair and square. He didn't want to win the Daytona 500 by caution flag, he wanted to be the first driver to the checkered flag.

You may not respect NASCAR for its decision but you MUST respect the driver.

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