Racing the stripe if you have the lead

B3422w5 said

I have always(with a lead) tried to take as little as I comfortably can.
There are guys who cut it way closer than me.
I trust the car, so if I am on the brakes I know with 99% certainty I am not breaking out, so I definitely don’t want to give the stripe back.

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I guarantee you if the guy in the other lane had trouble and is limping down the track and you stay in it and break out by .001 you would be kicking yourself all the way back to the trailer! I've run into plenty of guys in the pits that are packing up after a breakout loss and can't figure out what just happened.