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Originally Posted by consolidated
I will say in a race red mist takes over a lot of drivers and leads to stupid, regrettable behavior. But I believe Stewart being an a old vet has more control than that despite his reputation. He had nothing to gain and everything to lose. I have a feeling Stewart will say he didn't see him until the last second. Look at how visibility is minimized by the right side wing endplate, it's like driving with a 4x8 plywood blinder on your right side.
Terrifying to see Ward's body twisted like that, the safety workers look tells the story that he was likely dead already. Even though the yellow flag was out the cars were still doing what looks like 60 mph, Ward may have gotten knocked under by the anti-overlap bar and wrapped under the rear wheel, and then throw. A horrible, sad accident.
I'll be interested and surely shocked by what the press and public who don't know racing turn this into. We love destroying celebrities, especially ones with a history of bad behavior.
Stewart is not going to be the same person after this.
http://jalopnik.com/what-we-dont-kno...-cr-1619025270 |
This is the best post here. Sprint cars have terrible visibility. Throw in a night race at a local track with poor lighting, banking, in a curve, variable traction that sprint tracks have, and some dumb-ass 20-year old hot head driver who breaks the first rule they teach in drivers school (stay in your car), and someone ends up getting killed and the other has his career altered because of it. And a media frenzy to persecute an innocent celebrity in a sport they know nothing about and are too stupid to understand you can't apply the dynamic attributes of a street car to that of a race car, let alone a Sprint car on a sprint track.
There's no issue here. The kid got out of his car on a race track, decided to confront a car (thinking he's confronting the driver), and put himself in a situation to get killed. Story over.
Stop turning this thing into the JFK assassination...