When The Times covers Nascar, unintentional comedy could break out at any turn. Here's an original paragraph from a story on Feb. 20 about the use of numbers in the sport:

Sometimes the attempt to balance name and numbers turns into a silly jumble that sounds like: 97 could help Tony, but he might help 8, who bumped into Kurt so now 97 is a lap back, and Busch has to choose to push 8 or Tony so that Dale Jr. or 20 might help 97 in the future.

Here's a correction on that piece, which ran today:

The TV Sports column on Friday, about the use of numbers to describe the racecars in the telecast of the Daytona 500, referred incorrectly to Greg Biffle, a Nascar driver, and his finish in the race on Feb. 15. Biffle is a second-year driver in the top Nascar series, not a rookie. He finished 12th in the Daytona 500, not 3rd.

"I was told there would be no math."