COTA YET ANOTHER SLOPPY NASCAR ROAD COURSE RACE

Raikkonen couldn't get over how manyrestarts there were in the waning laps of NASCAR's first road course race of theseason. Jordan Taylor called his NASCAR debut "a race of survival"...

Kimi Raikkonen couldn't get over how many restarts there were in the waning laps of NASCAR's first road course race of the season. Jordan Taylor called his NASCAR debut "a race of survival" and Jenson Button found much of it "a bit silly." That was the verdict from three of the most experienced road racers in the world after a mess of a NASCAR race that took three overtime to be decided. Tyler Reddick finally won it Sunday when the race at Circuit of the Americas went seven laps past the scheduled distance to conclude. Raikkonen, who scored his final Formula One victory on the Texas road course in 2018, found himself fourth on one of the many late restarts with a view of the lead out his front windshield. That didn't last long; he was gobbled up, run off course and shuffled back to a 29th-place finish.

"It looked like you'd be very good, then three corners later, somebody's going the wrong direction," the former F1 world champion said. "It's such a shame how it went in the end, but I think we did the right thing. We were there. But then on the restart, it's how it was."