Re: Hemi Super Stock Challenge @ Hebron (SPOILER)
 

Came back to the thread after a few days and read a lot of interesting posts. My opinion:

Daniels earned a spot in the finals but did not show. Therefore, he can only be awarded the runner-up spot because he failed to validate a possible win by violating the rule mentioned above by Stewart Way. (Self-start, self-stage, take the tree). In other words, he would have had to have actually lost a legal race with Pancake to have been awarded the win on Pancake's disqualification.

Remember the time at the Summernationals when both the finalists in Stock were disqualified in post-race tech? Officially there is no winner or runner-up for that race. On the cover of the National Dragster results issue you can see where they covered up Truman Field's image in the picture of the winners gathered around the tree.

Re: Hemi Super Stock Challenge @ Hebron (SPOILER)
 

The way I see it........the above mentioned scenerios had to do with points earned per round win toward a championship. When there are no points involved toward a championship, the sanctioning body can award a win to the last man standing, if they so desire.