Talledega Finish

[The Boston Dangler]

http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/...lount_terry&id=4103191

Surprising: Keselowski's honest comments after his victory.

"This is NASCAR racing at its finest," he said. "I found myself laughing in the race car halfway through it because I was having so much fun. I hope the fans had fun too.''

Keselowski didn't realize people had been injured. When told about it, he still gave another honest response.

"There has to be some element of danger in this," he said. "It's no different than football. The fans want contact. If we hadn't had contact out there, everyone in this media center would write how boring it was."

the danger is for participants, not spectators. of course, you have to accept a reasonable risk when you leave the house every day. this little piece of shit knew the car went into the fence - how could people not be injured? - when he was doing victory donuts. 2 of the 7 injured people were airlifted to a hospital - 1 with a cut mouth and broken jaw, the other with "unspecified" injuries.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/...lount_terry&id=4103191

Surprising: Keselowski's honest comments after his victory.

"This is NASCAR racing at its finest," he said. "I found myself laughing in the race car halfway through it because I was having so much fun. I hope the fans had fun too.''

Keselowski didn't realize people had been injured. When told about it, he still gave another honest response.

"There has to be some element of danger in this," he said. "It's no different than football. The fans want contact. If we hadn't had contact out there, everyone in this media center would write how boring it was."

the danger is for participants, not spectators. of course, you have to accept a reasonable risk when you leave the house every day. this little piece of shit knew the car went into the fence - how could people not be injured? - when he was doing victory donuts. 2 of the 7 injured people were airlifted to a hospital - 1 with a cut mouth and broken jaw, the other with "unspecified" injuries.

quit whining, im sure theyll get nice settlements.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Wow...Scott Speed finished 5th? :thumbsup:

 

[CrackRabbit]

Very reminiscent of what happened to Richard Petty at the 1988 Daytona 500.

 

[lupi]

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
I'm a NASCAR fan, but I've never been big on the restrictor plate tracks. They have more to do with luck than skill. I do agree with many of the comments made by the drivers. It really sounded like nobody liked that race yesterday.

I'd rather watch a superspeedway race every week than these cookie cutter 1.5 mile tracks they keep adding.

 

[thedarkwolf]

Originally posted by: moparacer
Eh, I am not much of a Nascar fan post Earnhardt SR. but I think the kid could have moved down some and gave Edwards a little room.He stuck the nose of his car under Edwards and then left Edwards move down into him. You could see he had no intentions of avoiding that. 2:10-2:17 on the video.

Brad didn't spin Edwards out. Edwards cut down on him and thanks to Nascar's stupid no passing below the yellow line rule Brad only had two choices lose or hold his line. He held his line. Same basic thing happened last year. Stewart was in the lead and Smith was in second. Same blocking crap and Smith pulled low and got a bit of fender under Stewart and Stewart came down on him. Instead of wrecking Stewart though Smith went below the line and passed Stewart to cross the finish line first. For not wrecking Stewart Smith was rewarded with a 18th place finish. Nascar says you can't pass below the yellow line unless you are forced and Nascar decides if you were forced or not. Smith response to what happened was "Next time I guess I'll just wreck him" and what happened today is what we get.

Just copied what I posted in the other thread that got locked.

 

[randay]

Originally posted by: thedarkwolf

Originally posted by: moparacer
Eh, I am not much of a Nascar fan post Earnhardt SR. but I think the kid could have moved down some and gave Edwards a little room.He stuck the nose of his car under Edwards and then left Edwards move down into him. You could see he had no intentions of avoiding that. 2:10-2:17 on the video.

Brad didn't spin Edwards out. Edwards cut down on him and thanks to Nascar's stupid no passing below the yellow line rule Brad only had two choices lose or hold his line. He held his line. Same basic thing happened last year. Stewart was in the lead and Smith was in second. Same blocking crap and Smith pulled low and got a bit of fender under Stewart and Stewart came down on him. Instead of wrecking Stewart though Smith went below the line and passed Stewart to cross the finish line first. For not wrecking Stewart Smith was rewarded with a 18th place finish. Nascar says you can't pass below the yellow line unless you are forced and Nascar decides if you were forced or not. Smith response to what happened was "Next time I guess I'll just wreck him" and what happened today is what we get.

Just copied what I posted in the other thread that got locked.

if youre not first, youre last.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: lupi

Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
I'm a NASCAR fan, but I've never been big on the restrictor plate tracks. They have more to do with luck than skill. I do agree with many of the comments made by the drivers. It really sounded like nobody liked that race yesterday.

I'd rather watch a superspeedway race every week than these cookie cutter 1.5 mile tracks they keep adding.

Two words:
Bristol.
Bristol.

 

[The Boston Dangler]

Originally posted by: randay

Originally posted by: The Boston Dangler
http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/...lount_terry&id=4103191

Surprising: Keselowski's honest comments after his victory.

"This is NASCAR racing at its finest," he said. "I found myself laughing in the race car halfway through it because I was having so much fun. I hope the fans had fun too.''

Keselowski didn't realize people had been injured. When told about it, he still gave another honest response.

"There has to be some element of danger in this," he said. "It's no different than football. The fans want contact. If we hadn't had contact out there, everyone in this media center would write how boring it was."

the danger is for participants, not spectators. of course, you have to accept a reasonable risk when you leave the house every day. this little piece of shit knew the car went into the fence - how could people not be injured? - when he was doing victory donuts. 2 of the 7 injured people were airlifted to a hospital - 1 with a cut mouth and broken jaw, the other with "unspecified" injuries.

quit whining, im sure theyll get nice settlements.

whining? whatever.

they might recieve a little something from nascar, to keep up the image. as for legal action, i promise you those people didn't read the back of their tickets before entering.