Checkered follows white
Crossing the line second after Jan. 15's last-lap clash between Bub McCool and Ronny Lee Hollingsworth at Tucson's Wild West Shootout, Billy Moyer had no doubt he was runner-up. After all, Moyer reasoned, the checkered flag follows the white flag at every dirt track in the country, and he's seemingly raced at all of them.
But when the 53-year-old Hall of Famer was told that, at least twice earlier in the week at USA Raceway, white flags interrupted by caution flags meant a race was restarted a MORE