While watching Nascar, what does it mean when you get a "lucky dog" ??

Question

i was watching Nascar and i heard them mention this,

what does it mean??

Answer 1

it means the first a lap down gets to make up a lap

Answer 2

The "Lucky dog" rule known as the Free Pass or officially the Beneficiary Rule is a NASCAR rule. The rule allows the driver of the next lapped car or truck behind the leader to gain back a lap during a caution. The driver is called to move to the end of the longest line of the cars at the end of that caution period. This rule was instituted to prevent drivers from racing back to the start/finish line when a caution was called.

The rule applies regardless of the number of laps a car is behind the leader.

Furthermore, a driver may not receive a beneficiary rule lap in certain situations:

There are less than ten laps remaining in the race based on the scheduled distance.

The driver caused the situation bringing out the yellow.

The driver had been penalized one (or more) laps for rough driving. This rule may be waived if the driver passes the leader and regains his lap back, and then is passed back.

There are two restrictions on the pitting in regards to the beneficiary rule:

The driver pits with the lap-down cars, unless officials declare a quick yellow, when all cars may pit.

During that pit stop, it is the only lap that car may take fuel. This rule was implemented October 30, 2004, after Ryan Newman won the first race with the beneficiary rule by stopping for fuel multiple times after gaining the free pass during that caution period, resulting in a win.

In 2006, NASCAR began to use this rule at road course races, despite previous years where it was not used at road course events.

The same rule is implemented in Grand-Am road racing, whilst rules where lapped cars between leaders may gain one lap exist in Formula One as of 2007, and lapped cars ahead of the leader are allowed to move to the tail end of the lead lap on restarts in the Indy Racing League.

Answer 3

The first car a lap down closest to the leader at the time of the caution gets his lap back.

Answer 4

you would be the first driver one lap down,then you get to move up to the tail end of the lead lap.

Answer 5

if u get it ,,it Means ur aleast a lap down

Answer 6

Its the nickname developed by I believe it was TNT's Wally Dallenbach for the unofficially named 'free-pass' rule.

NASCAR after an incident where the cars were racing past a stricken #88 (then driven by Dale Jarrett) on the front stretch at NHIS banned racing back to the caution instead freezing the field as the caution came out. The 'free-pass' was NASCAR's way of giving back the competitors a chance to get back on the lead lap as they took away the previous one.

While for the most part it is the most known nickname, FOX has decided against calling it the Lucky-Dog instead calling it the Free Pass. Aaron's the previous sponsor for the #00 in the Cup series this year & current sponsor for the Aaron's 499 @ Talladega in April & the #99 in the Nationwide Series sponsors this pass in the Craftsman Truck Series telecasts.

Answer 7

The first car that is not on the lead lap is allowed to pass the pace car and go to the end of the field a get a lap back.  NASCAR is giving them a lap back, which they lost during competition.

This was implemented when NASCAR forbode teams to race back to the caution flag.  In old school days, if you had been lapped and a caution came  out, you would race the leader back to the S/F line.  If you beat him, you were no longer a lap down.  They decided that it was too dangerous.  So, now they give 1 lap back each caution period.  As I mentioned, it goes to the first driver not on the lead lap.  Usually this puts the driver back on the lead lap.  However, if no drivers are 1 lap down (say there are 42 cars on the lead lap and the other car is 8 laps down), the lucky driver will get one of their laps back (so the lucky driver would now be 7 laps down).