Kevin Harvick gives Michael Waltrip hell for Promoter’s Caution at NASCAR All-Star race

Michael Waltrip was appointed as the person to wave the yellow flag for the Promoter’s Caution during this past Sunday’s NASCAR All-Star Race. But nobody told Waltrip to actually throw it.

Maybe intentional, maybe not, but it happened. Waltrip dropped the yellow flag on the frontstretch of North Wilkesboro Speedway. Kevin Harvick saw it coming, he said on Tuesday’s “Happy Hour” podcast.

“When we heard that this was happening and Michael was going to wave the caution flag and was going to be the one coordinating when this caution would come out, we told producer Chuck that we should tape the flag to Michael’s hand, or he was going to drop it on the racetrack,” Harvick said. “It wound up on the racetrack.”

Waltrip isn’t the first person to drop the flag on the racetrack. Harvick has seen it before and knows it’s difficult being up in the flag stand.

“I have seen people drop the green flag,” Harvick said. “They’re out there waving the flag and they kind of lose track of where they are and they forget to hold onto the flag. Next thing you know, green flag is on the ground. … How many times you think he’s stood in that grandstand? … You don’t realize how much wind that there is with the cars and everything going by. It’s real.”

Joey Logano takes issue with All-Star Race Promoter’s Caution

North Wilkesboro and FOX Sports built the moment up. FS1 went side-by-side with the race on one side, and Waltrip in the flag stand on the other. It was just a matter of when Waltrip would wave the yellow flag.

The Promoter’s Caution came on Lap 216, while Joey Logano was out front. Fireworks went off at North Wilkesboro as the caution flag flew. Logano, who finished second to Christopher Bell, didn’t seem too thrilled about it.

“Yeah, I’m all about no gimmicks with the caution,” Logano said of the Promoter’s Caution. “I am all about that. I’m a little — me and [Speedway Motorsports CEO] Marcus Smith aren’t seeing eye to eye right now, OK? I’ve got to have a word with him.”