Carl Edwards

Rain was falling. The cars were parked on pit road with Carl Edwards in 22nd place, and the driver and crew chief Bob Osborne were arguing heatedly on top of the team's pit box.

Not the most likely formula for winning a race.

Edwards and several other race leaders had pitted minutes earlier after rain began falling on lap 127 of the 200-lap NASCAR Sprint Cup race Sunday at Pocono Raceway. Nineteen other drivers, taking a gamble on the possibility of a rain-shortened race, had stayed on track.

'The argument came from when it started raining real hard, then we ...