Thornton got the shaft tonight

[bleedblue55]

At the 3:41 mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2cfwOwIoQ

No way to tell from that angle, flagstand is located down towards turn 1. Also appears that small track flagstand is on the inside and large track stand is on the outside. How timing cable is buried in relation to those two stands would mean a lot. Guess whoever buried it could answer that. Good to see the tin foil hat conspiracy nut jobs out in force.

[lurker]

Eyeball test watching the cars showed Thornton winning

At the 3:41 mark - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-2cfwOwIoQ

[Rajflyboy]

Using transponders at line can be like the winner in ford vs Ferrari

[johnE]

I have to wonder if there is some way to game the system...

[Mod Runner]

Must have been a close race. Transponders are the best way to determine the winner. It is hard to draw a line for the start finish line and then use a camera to determine the winner. Transponders are just so much more accurate.

[chopter]

from the 5th row? what happened to bobby?

[Raceready]

Thorton received the special WoW punishment tonight like Dennis Erb Jr. did earlier when he too was stripped of an obvious win !!! How sad.

[NeedforLMspeed]

The angle on WoO highlight wasn't straight up. But even if the transponder cable is 3 feet, 6 feet or 12 feet before the finish line it still looks like RTJ won. I've seen that before and then you look at it straight up and the other guy ended up winning by a mile and your still like wtf lol

[golddirt]

Eldora uses cameras,just saying

[flagone]

How can you tell which car crosses the finish line first if you aren't looking straight at the line? Answer is YOU CAN'T. There is nothing wrong with using transponders. My point in saying that about the camera is people would likely not be questioning it now with the proper camera angle.

[jcotton02]

Racing has always been first car to cross the start finish line. If you want to decide line ups on transponder that’s fine, but it should not decide the finish line. We have enough technology these days to get a photo finish and see who truly won.

[Jim11h]

He frickin lost big deal but it happens to all eventually

[flagone]

Terrible camera angle. The camera was well left of S/F line. If you are a national series and you have your own live video production there is no reason to not have a camera straight on at the finish line. Hell of a race. RTJ is a bad dude.

[EDERDS]

Eyeball test watching the cars showed Thornton winning

[Big Daddy 37]

Often the transponder cable is not buried under the track, right at the flag stand... Some tracks are 3-6 feet either way.
Not sure if that is the case or not, but...