NASCAR had an adventurous weekend, one that ran about six hours long for the Cup Series race on Sunday thanks to the presence of some pretty serious weather. Needless to say the sport’s reasonably new wet weather tires were a big topic of discussion. The organization made the call to break out the wet weather tires with about 82 laps to go following a significant halt for rain. It was a move that Elton Sawyer, the senior vice president of competition for NASCAR, said ultimately saved the race. Had wet weather tires not been available, the race would have been called with 82 laps to go. So over…
