Tony Stewart incident

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Here's the full video they won't show on the news. He for sure serves but I can't tell from the video when. To me it still looks like the kid jumped at the path of Mr Stewart's car.


[video=youtube_share;O5r-d6Tez1M]http://youtu.be/O5r-d6Tez1M[/video]
 
The track is just southwest of me and Kevin Ward lived northeast of here.

I watched this video about ten times now and I have to say Ward got down too close. Stewart's car is out of shape, but I think that's more from him going over Ward. I'm sure more videos will come out and that will shed more light on it.

Sad... very sad.
 
The dumb *** should of NEVER got out his car!

I see this stupid behavior all the time....on the track and in the pits at all venues of circle racing. Everyone with a so called race car thinks they are Billy Bad ***!

Life time ban on anybody that gets out of their car on the track (unless it's on fire or upside down) and/or physically fights with another driver or person and all this stupid **** stops!
 
Two boys behaving badly and one of them dies tragically.
Fingers will be pointing everywhere but themselves.
 
It's terrible that the the young man lost his life. This dumb type of confrontation happens at every race from coast to coast every day.

Racing official's will change rules and equipment requirements in a heartbeat for safety. How about a rule change for driver/crew behavior to keep these idiots safe.
 
The big issue is Stewart was involved... If this was another local guy, there would be a little blurb in the local paper and that would be it.

These small dirt tracks are dark, Ward was wearing a black driving suit and he did exactly what he should not have done. This isn't going to go well for Stewart either... His reputation as a hot head proceeds this and will color everyone's opinion regardless of what really happened.
 
The car in front of Stewart swerved to miss him. Stewart probably saw that once the car in front swerved and he probably tried to evade the disaster as well. Even though Stewart is a hothead....I seriously doubt his intention was to injure or kill the young man.
 
Not that it is relevant to this NASCAR needs to stop making a rule every time someone farts in their car and another driver smells it or god forbid the fans. NASCAR needs to deal with safety only in the cup series give them a drivetrain configuration and body style approval and let them race, or dumb it down like they have and they have one manufature that wins GM/toyota which is what they want I guess. Seems boring to me but I guess the housewife fan base they are developing buys cars also. IMHO this is not based in fact just a observation from a someone that did watch every race listened to radio programs during the week could not get enough, now the only way I know who won is the scroll across the bottom on espn.
 
70bigblockdodge said:
Not that it is relevant to this NASCAR needs to stop making a rule every time someone farts in their car and another driver smells it or god forbid the fans. NASCAR needs to deal with safety only in the cup series give them a drivetrain configuration and body style approval and let them race, or dumb it down like they have and they have one manufature that wins GM/toyota which is what they want I guess. Seems boring to me but I guess the housewife fan base they are developing buys cars also. IMHO this is not based in fact just a observation from a someone that did watch every race listened to radio programs during the week could not get enough, now the only way I know who won is the scroll across the bottom on espn.
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You have to remember, this was not a NASCAR sanctioned event.

This was a local dirt track with its own rules and this was a sprint car race booked into the track as a "show". BTW, the sanctioning body for Empire Super Sprints is here in Syracuse. They have their own rules too.

How NASCAR reacts will be interesting.
 
Yes I think this was just a bad series of events with a tragic end I was just venting because Bob had mentioned NASCAR changing rules, Stan put it back into perspective.
 
I don't know Bob I would say that a 2014 Charger SRT8 with all the air bags and interior stripped cage added for stiffness emissions removed and compression ratio brought up to the levels that the current cars are running leaving the car F.I.. That car I just put together would run not much slower than current cars that are restricted anyway, oh wait a minute that would allow the use of a Hemi engine (a dirty word in nascar history) not a antiquated passenger car engine from the late sixties, same applies to Ford as a overhead cam engine is taboo for Nascar but has become a mainstay for production cars, look at the Billions of miles crown vics have rolled up with a sohc engine hardly exotic nowadays. IMHO you are seeing the first signs of fading away due to a reluctance to change/keep pace with the rest of the world, fork in the road stay the course cater to the housewives with handsome winner circle drivers driving whatever or keep handsome driver and let the manufactures back in to showcase their modern engine designs and bodies catching the interest of technical, design, and engineering types plus retaining the housewives. Lastly IMHO asphalt is for driving to the track dirt is for racing.
 
They will never go back to "stock" car racing. The crying about one manufacturer having an advantage over another would be endless. LOL!
 
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