Posted by Paul on August 10, 2014 at 14:34:51 from (76.77.203.247):
In Reply to: Tony Stewart (OT) posted by Sean Feeney on August 10, 2014 at 07:41:55:
Sad deal.
From what I see from a small clip in my armchair, looks like the typical reaction by both sides on any such deal, see it 100 times every Saturday night on dirt tracks across the nation.
Get out and point or throw a glove at the driver you don't like.
Gun the engine in response and get out of the way.
What went wrong here is the fella on foot got too carried away and ran down too far on the track.
The rules will say you stay in your car until safety crew gets there. And you don't run around the track on food chasing after people.
And you don't pop out in front of a hard to control sprint car that is following another sprint car on a dark track from the high side, wearing a dark suit.
The kid got more worked up than he should have, got himself in a very bad position of his own making, and unfortunately paid the price for his emotional state.
I could be proved wrong on that, but from what little I see, that is my view of it today. The minor gunning of engine by Tony is the accepted and normal response to such dealings on the track, and anyone running around on the track on foot shouldn't get that close as to be run over. 100s do so every weekend, as I said, you don't run up into a sprint car from the high side, in a dark suit on a dark track on the 2nd car of a line of cars. There really is no one else to blame for a tradgety that results from that but the person on foot.
20 years ago, that hothead running around on the track coulda been Tony making a hotheaded, fatal mistake. He certainly has his own temper issues.
But I don't see that tony did anything wrong, the unfortunate young fella just got himself in a bad bad spot without a moment of thinking things over. I understand how he felt and not thinking it through, but ultimately the young man let his rage create the tradgety that happened to him.
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