A Great Ruse

[Team Owner]

One of the greatest ruses ever was perpetrated on AGR Sunday. During the last caution the team manager of the #15 Argent car driven by Buddy Rice asked an IRL pit tech to call Brian Barnhardt on the directors channel and ask if they could possibly extend the yellow and allow teams to top off the cars so that all could reach the end without running out of fuel so as to make a better race for the fans. Brian announced " pits are closed, show the field one lap to go to green at the start finish line " The stage was set for the finish. Tony Kaanan got a call on the radio telling him to let Buddy Rice around him and tuck in to save fuel as Buddy didn't have enough to finish the race and would even burn more if he was out front. Needless to say Rice won the race, did 2 victory laps plus a burnout and when his fuel tank was pumped out had 1.7 gallons left in it.
Tony Kaanan was furious at his crew and stormed off on his scooter and refused to talk to anyone as when he was behind Rice his car pushed and he couldn't get back around him.

RLR is to be congratulated for one of the greatest ruses of all time.

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