OOB Throw In - Step on the line

[zm1283]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

I'm not a NASCAR fan but wasn't there a problem with a car going "over" the inside line in a race a few weeks ago? What if he had just touched the line with his tires, but didn't go over the line?

He went under the yellow line at Talladega to make a pass at the end of the race. You can't go under that line to gain positions. If you do, you have to give the spot back or you're black flagged (pass through the pits usually). Most tracks have a white inside line, and you can drive under it all you want, but the ones with yellow lines are a no-no.

I'm pretty sure you can put your tires on the line, but if in their judgment you go too far they will penalize you.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by zm1283

He went under the yellow line at Talladega to make a pass at the end of the race. You can't go under that line to gain positions. If you do, you have to give the spot back or you're black flagged (pass through the pits usually). Most tracks have a white inside line, and you can drive under it all you want, but the ones with yellow lines are a no-no. I'm pretty sure you can put your tires on the line, but if in their judgment you go too far they will penalize you.

Thanks. I know more about brain surgery, and rocket science, than I do about NASCAR racing. I didn't realize that there were different color lines.

"You can't go under that line to gain positions". Is this like advantage/disadvantage in basketball?

[Back In The Saddle]

IIRC in T&F the lane lines are OOB. There were a couple of runners DQ'd in one of the longer sprints (200? 400?) that I watched during the Olympics for stepping on the lane line.

In volleyball, and I think soccer, possible some of the others that have been listed, not only is the line in bounds, but for the ball to be OOB it must be entirely OOB. If any part of the ball hits the line in volleyball, it's still in no matter how much of it hit outside the line. So more that just a difference between whether the line is in bounds of OOB.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

There were a couple of runners DQ'd in one of the longer sprints that I watched during the Olympics for stepping on the lane line.

Thanks for reminding me. I did see this on televison. From the description below, from the NBC website, it sounds like the line is "out of bounds".

"Two disqualifications resulted in two very disappointed sprinters in the finals of the men's 200m. Churandy Martina of the Netherlands Antilles crossed the line second behind Jamaica's Usain Bolt, and American Wallace Spearmon was the third to finish, but both were disqualified for stepping on lane lines. Although Spearmon was knocked out almost immediately after the race's conclusion, he learned about it only after he had been celebrating for several minutes on the track. Martina's DQ came nearly two hours after the race, after officials analyzed video replays".