"It's time to put up the caution flags," he said recently.

There was not even one caution flag to clean oil or debris off the track.

The race was run in its entirety without a single caution flag.

Eventually, the moment of the race would be decided under a caution flag.

The race had 12 different leaders, 31 lead changes, seven caution flags and one red flag.

There were 16 lead changes in the race, and caution flags came out 4 times.

Put another way, there was one caution flag for every 40 miles of racing this season.

The accident brought out the 10th caution flag of the day.

A crash on Lap 12 led to a caution flag.

In total, there were 15 caution flags during the course of the race.