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Line 15: The practice sometimes created dangerous situations in which cars would be racing near wrecked cars, with possibly injured drivers, and prevent the safety team from reaching the stricken cars quickly. Also, there were numerous situations where cars racing back to the caution nearly, or in some cases did, become part of the crash by plowing into slow or stopped cars on the track. Criticism of the rule first aired on [[CBS Sports\|CBS]] during the ~~1983~~ [[1983 Daytona 500]] following a bad crash by [[Darrell Waltrip]] when leader Dick Brooks slowed and the lapped car of [[Lake Speed]] chopped him off, forcing him hard on the brakes as Waltrip approached. Color analyst [[David Hobbs (racing driver)\|David Hobbs]] was sharply critical of the rule, and it was criticized in ''[[Sports Illustrated]]''{{'s}} coverage of the 500 by writer Sam Moses.<ref>https://vault.si.com/vault/1983/02/28/the-king-was-right-good-buddy</ref> This especially showed during the 2003 [[Sylvania 300]] at [[New Hampshire Motor Speedway\|Loudon]] when [[Dale Jarrett]] had stopped in the middle of the track at the start finish line while the drivers were racing back to the flag. Another infamous incident took place in the 1990 [[Automobile Racing Club of America\|ARCA]] race at [[Daytona International Speedway\|Daytona]], where cars slowing down under caution crashed into a stationary car being attended to by rescue crews after a multi-car crash, seriously injuring a paramedic.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=It6DLvpHxxo Footage of 1990 ARCA crash]</ref>

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