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[QUOTE="Pyle, post: 1940906, member: 137"]
They dont all start at the same time nor do they travel the same distance. Nascar employs a rolling start. The race officially starts when the car in the pole position crosses the start line. At that point in time, the car in the pole position has to travel the exact race distance to reach the finish line. However, as this car crosses the line there are 39 other cars who are in fact starting from a point farther back based on their qualifying times. Therefore a car who starts 39th has to travel the race distance plus approximately 18 car lengths to finish the race. Let's assume for simplicity sake that the car who started in first, finished in first. Let's also assume it takes .5 seconds for the car in 39th to reach the start line after the race officially started but that driver finishes .05 seconds behind the leader to finish the race. The fact remains that the car in 39th finished the race closer to the leader than he started, therefore actually travelling further in the same amount of time. The faster car didn't win. Math.

It also bears repeating that drivers and their teams win races, not cars. A car is an object with finite, measurable characteristics. If a car has better acceleration and higher top-end speed then it is the fastest car regardless of all other outside influences. Whether a driver/team can win with the fastest car is a completely different argument. Logic.
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