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I think the decision to park Kenseth if his car could still continue was more or less damage control for the fact that he took out Logano while he was leading. This whole situation could have been avoided by NASCAR actually enforcing the rules (starting with the initial incident at Kansas), but NASCAR decided that being hands off was a better decision until now. They're now (more than ever) paying for the decision to be lax with rule enforcement before it gets way, way out of hand (too late for that because its already at that point).
I kind of like Kenseth, but come on, what he did was incredibly immature.
Are we referring to what started all this? If so, what the 22 did was just racing. As an amateur racing driver myself: block me once, I back off. Block me twice, I don't back off. At that point, whatever happens is your fault. "Fool me once, fool me twice" and all that.
No. 22 shouldn't get a free pass. But NASCAR has already made their decision about that incident. That's not going to change. NASCAR should take what happened today as a wake up call. They are losing control of their drivers, and they need to start handing out penalties.
They better because this is looking like a joke.
As an amateur racer, are you actually that willing to risk your own equipment for petty payback?
In my opinion, they lost control due to not penalizing Logano for the initial incident. The drivers decided that since nothing happened to Logano, nothing would happen to them if they took out a competitor (or competitors), and for the most part, that's exactly what has happened in the past few weeks.
No, I justify the 22 on the basis that Matt's off track excursion wasn't the intent of Joey. Maybe to make him go high, but not to punt him off track.
Only changed to make the casual fan think last week was somehow safer than the Pepsi 400
To be fair, it was. They were wrecking at 70 mph instead of 200.
I was referring to what started all this (Keselowski "wrecking" Kenseth a few weeks ago, although Kenseth brought it on himself IMO). I would never try to intentionally wreck another driver. I've only deliberately spun one person in my entire career, and a) it was during the cooldown lap after the race, and b) I still regret it because it was so dishonorable and out-of-character for me. However, if you try to block me repeatedly, I can't guarantee that both of us are going to escape the incident unharmed, especially that late in the race when I'm trying to win. At that point, I'm going to hold my ground.
I believe the whole "one attempt" rule was just for Talladega, yes.
Implying they even made it up to 70To be fair, it was. They were wrecking at 70 mph instead of 200.
I've been racing for 15 years and have won two track championships, a number that would have been at least doubled if not for two instances where track officials were blatantly skewed towards other racers, doing everything in their power to prevent me from capturing the championship. I've won 250+ races overall (heats and features), started a wiki about Gran Turismo to which I sometimes volunteer my knowledge, and been a commentator for the ORA GT World Championship and GTPES.
I've yet to say it wasn't. The out come was not intentional, something I've repeatedly said, however, Matt knew full knowingly what he was doing, and then turned into an ass hat when he gave the childish lying interview.
Are you serious? Or is this more of your sarcasm which you'd like to post next saying obviously I don't understand??
Because you generally don't hear about amateur racers. Very few of the races I've competed in were televised, and the ones that were, were tape-delayed, edited down to 30 minutes, and only shown to a few thousand people in Portsmouth, Virginia 9+ years ago. Not all racing is shown on TV, you know.
