Mr. Green's press office sent out a victory-lap schedule for Friday at 5 08 p.m. yesterday, though taking care to mark it as "of course, a tentative schedule".
Denny Hamlin took second at Phoenix, followed by Kyle Busch, who led the most laps but couldn't close the deal as the race ran seven laps longer than its 312-lap scheduled distance.
This can be tough to pull off around the office, but the Internet is an ideal environment for the virtual boor; it's far easier to, say, skulk around peeking at porn sites than it is to schedule lap dances in the conference room.
A chunk of debris gouged a hole in the nose of Jeff Gordon's car, and another accident on a grinding afternoon pushed the Brickyard 400 one lap past its scheduled distance.
On the scheduled lap, they rose and snapped on their helmets, and for five or six seconds they performed like field surgeons on a rapidly expiring general until, in a roar of heat, the car was away, and they returned to their chairs and the unfolding, 90-minute drama on a TV monitor.
Burton passed his teammate Mark Martin for the lead on Lap 136 of the scheduled 267-lap CarsDirect.com 400 yesterday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway.
Stewar charged past Robert Pressley to take the lead on Lap 185 of the scheduled 200-lap event on Michigan's two-mile, high-banked oval.
At the conclusion of lap 59, with the scheduled pit stops completed, the running order was Massa leading from Kovalainen, Glock, Räikkönen, Alonso, Hamilton, Piquet, Trulli, Kubica, Webber, Heidfeld, Coulthard, Button, Nakajima, Rosberg, Fisichella, Sutil, Barrichello and Bourdais.
At the conclusion of lap 34, with the scheduled pit stops completed, the running order was Michael Schumacher, Häkkinen, Ralf Schumacher, Button, Coulthard, Frentzen, Villeneuve, Herbert, Salo, Irvine, Diniz, Zonta, Wurz, Gene, Verstappen, de la Rosa and Mazzacane.
The race was called moments later with 98 of the 160 scheduled laps completed.
Finally, the race was called after 109 of 200 scheduled laps.
