Even Gordon admitted that NASCAR should have thrown a yellow. But he didn't complain because he believed a debris caution with 17 to go – when Gordon had a huge lead – was bogus.
"There absolutely should have been a caution there at the end – but there shouldn't have been one before it," Gordon said. "There at the end – debris, oil, everything you can imagine – was on that race track and that comes back to the inconsistency. I am glad they didn't throw it at the end, but I didn't understand why they threw it earlier.
"It can work with you or against you. Today it worked for us."