..Polish victory lap..

[GSCole]

Today's sports pages (24 SEPT 2001) carried an item about the winner of
a race at Dover (Delaware) Downs International Speedway.  It was noted
that the winner "drove the famed 'Polish victory lap'".

A search of the web finds the following site which identifies the Polish
Victory Lap as being a calculated creation of Alan Kulwicki, in ~1988.

http://www.frontstretch.com/varner/varner0403.htm

Sorry for any redundancy of information for those who avidly follow
NASCAR events, but this is something of a new phrase for me.

George Cole
gscole at ark.ship.edu
Shippensburg University