Alright, this has nothing to do with the whole Jeff Burton mad at Michael McDowell incident last week at Martinsville, I have a different complaint about lapped cars.

My complaint is that they still start to the inside of the leader on the restart. Why do they need to be there? We have the lucky-dog rule for lapped cars to catch up, they don't need to be up with the leaders messing up the race or even causing an accident. Back in the day that was good so you could make up a lap on a restart by getting by the leader and hoping for a quick caution, but with the free pass this isn't necessary.

Now, if you take those lapped cars out of the inside line and put them behind the lead lap cars... That opens a window of opportunity.

The All-Star Race has double-file restarts just like the starting grid (1st on the inside of row one, 2nd on the outside of row 1, etc.) providing for good racing throughout the entire race.

Well if you apply this to every race, maybe this could improve that issue that we've had with the middle of races being, well, boring. Normally a driver running, lets say, 4th would just start on the outside row with those lapped cars on the inside, lining him up virtually 8th, and by the time he's gotten around all the lapped cars he's several car lengths behind the leader. At that point, he's just going to ride and hope that the drivers in front of him have their car get away from them, but otherwise he's just going to ride and wait until later to make a move.

Now you take that same driver and use the same system you would in the All-Star race. Now that driver is actually lined up 4th, he can see the leader just outside his windsheild. He also sees the fourth place car just to his inside. Once the green flag drops, he's already trying to race for position, and he's all around cars doing the same, so he'll push harder to maintain and also to advance. Instead of finding himself far behind the leader once everything gets sorted out he maybe finds himself just a few tenths.

Now you have a better race through-and-through, and those lapped cars aren't changing the outcome, so long as they actually move out of the way when they around the leaders with 20 to go, but that's another story...