Bubbler
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Sorry guys, but a story of this gravity doesn't deserve to be buried on a stupid running thread.
How terrible. A road rage accident of the worst kind, but it must be said, one that both contributed to.
Kevin Ward should never, EVER, be on-track in a situation like that. To be blunt, no driver should EVER be on-track PERIOD, much less in some moronic desire to "get" a driver in a racing incident. Settle your beefs off-track.
That said, Stewart looks really, really bad in that video. For starters, there is no reason whatsoever he shouldn't be down on the apron to avoid Ward at all costs. No matter whether Ward is stupid as hell for being there in the first place. Stewart has to do everything he can to avoid him anyway.
The acceleration is pointless. Having seen the video, I can accept MAYBE that Stewart was accelerating to get away from him, but why be there in the first place? The best case scenario I can think of is that Stewart stayed in the middle of the track defiantly, realized **** was about to go down very badly, and reacted too late. That's the BEST case scenario.
More likely, Stewart was enraged himself and, at best, made a terribly tragic mistake, or at worst, deliberately ran over a driver.
I'm seeing some Twitter nonsense that he couldn't see out of that side of his car. Bull****. Not every sprint car track is a bullring. I've covered sprints on ahalf-mile oval and you have to be able to see to the right just to negotiate the track and its traffic.
I think Stewart's in trouble. Not rest of his life in the pokey trouble, but trouble of some sort.
And not to go all Darren Rovell, especially in the context of death, but his NASCAR career is well and truly ****ed in its current form. Good luck getting his corporate buddies to go to the mattresses and keep forking over dough after watching that video.
How terrible. A road rage accident of the worst kind, but it must be said, one that both contributed to.
Kevin Ward should never, EVER, be on-track in a situation like that. To be blunt, no driver should EVER be on-track PERIOD, much less in some moronic desire to "get" a driver in a racing incident. Settle your beefs off-track.
That said, Stewart looks really, really bad in that video. For starters, there is no reason whatsoever he shouldn't be down on the apron to avoid Ward at all costs. No matter whether Ward is stupid as hell for being there in the first place. Stewart has to do everything he can to avoid him anyway.
The acceleration is pointless. Having seen the video, I can accept MAYBE that Stewart was accelerating to get away from him, but why be there in the first place? The best case scenario I can think of is that Stewart stayed in the middle of the track defiantly, realized **** was about to go down very badly, and reacted too late. That's the BEST case scenario.
More likely, Stewart was enraged himself and, at best, made a terribly tragic mistake, or at worst, deliberately ran over a driver.
I'm seeing some Twitter nonsense that he couldn't see out of that side of his car. Bull****. Not every sprint car track is a bullring. I've covered sprints on ahalf-mile oval and you have to be able to see to the right just to negotiate the track and its traffic.
I think Stewart's in trouble. Not rest of his life in the pokey trouble, but trouble of some sort.
And not to go all Darren Rovell, especially in the context of death, but his NASCAR career is well and truly ****ed in its current form. Good luck getting his corporate buddies to go to the mattresses and keep forking over dough after watching that video.
