Windom's move
 

Anybody else think Windom's move last night on Hopkins was dirty? He pulled a bonzi slider and ran AJ off the track, then after the race he stands up in his car and stares at AJ and throws his arms up like it was AJ's fault. Fan's booed the crap out of him and props to AJ for taking it in stride stating " it's all good ". Think Big Daddy hopefully gets some payback in the future.:44:

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Oh, Guess you didn't see A.J drive through KTj and others?
Got a dose of his own medicine.

Not saying Hopkins isn't a Gasser or even a bad guy, but only a few of his passes, I'd call clean.

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"Dirty" implies intent and I can't get inside a driver's head and have any idea what he was thinking, especially on a slick track. It was definitely a bad move, IMO. It was a slider that didn't come close to being executed successfully. The worst part for me, as a fan, was that in one fail swoop, the only driver that possibly had anything for Dave coming down to the finish, was taken out of contention. Because Windom absolutely did not have anything for the leader. And I've been to LPS enough to know, that if AJ is within striking distance coming down to the checker, he's going to pull out all the stops and go for it.

Jerry

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I'll only go further to say that many of the passes last night had contact and when all that's left is a cushion, that's the racing you get.

I thought both Wed's and Thurs tracks would have been much better if the Mods had run last.

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From strictly a bleacher jockey fan perspective the move Windom put on Hopkins was more than a bit sketchy, but as Jerry said it's hard to determine intent. From what we've seen from Windom over the years it's difficult to say definitively that the move was made with malicious intent without Windom coming truthfully clean as to his thought process. It's definitely something that seems to happen relatively infrequently from Windom so the benefit of the doubt is probably a virtue from those of us not directly involved.

What I'd be more interested in hearing from Windom is why the moment of post race theatrics from him. From our perspective Hopkins did nothing to provoke such a maneuver if it was done with intent. If it wasn't then Hopkins really didn't warrant such a reaction from Windom. But again, only those two know for sure.

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I’m not sure what race you was watching Charles but aj never touched kt when he passed him but kt sure hit aj in the left front when he tried to slide him back. I can tell you after 30 years of racing that a drive can stop the car from sliding up the track if he knows he is not gonna clear the car it’s no accident what happened it’s just a I’m more important than you so get out of the way. The track was just how I like it and you dang sure can pass with out hitting other cars. There was a lot of clean passing in that race

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A post-race gesture would seem to illustrate intent. Unless Windom was under the impression that the contact was the fault of Hopkins, and the gesture was intended to show his displeasure over that.

As was said last night a few weeks back, Hopkins admitted he flat took Colten Cottle out of a feature win by over driving into him going into turn 3 and knocking Cottle completely off the track after Cottle had led most of the feature with only 4 laps to go. Did anyone else see Hopkins run into the back of Carson Short on the back stretch turning him almost sideways last night. For all the fans he may have on the front stretch, HE is making enemies in the pits. You ever heard of karma. Seems like Indiana Sprint Week brings out this kind of stuff.

I’m sick of hearing about “ Karma” if two drivers have a problem go somewhere and settle it like men. Taking someone out and tearing up cars or possibly severely injuring someone is just plain stupid. Grow a set and take care of your problem off the track.

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Maybe someone in the sanctioning body should be speaking privately with some drivers about this slidejob BS that seems to be getting way out of line.

Wwbkd

I think we both know what he would do ! LOL

Charles doesn't agree with anything anyone says unless it's a compliment about Lawrenceburg

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Wow, another stalker who can kiss the backside.

Guys come on. This is ridiculous. Just two guys pushing the limits. Period. I thought Chris should have tried out for the Indians after the steering wheel throw last year (haha). But he is a good dude, and this is racing. If this stuff doesn’t get you fired up you don’t need to be behind the wheel. End of story. Honestly I love to see the passion in an era where everyone is buddy buddy in the pits. Both of these guys are a perfect example of what our sport needs.

That was 30 laps of insanity! Lots of wheel banging and bumper busting, maybe partly intentional, maybe just the fact that the track was like ice, but hey, that’s sprint car racing, gotta love it. I thought DD put on a clinic with the restarts, and lap after lap hitting his marks for the win.

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Its easy to tear your stuff up if it aint yours or you got plenty to tear thru. I don't really care bout the hard driving or questionable passes, I do hate when the winner acts like a clown.
Back in the day there were fights all the time in the pits, at least where we were. They solve nothing although some were worth the price of admission. Thing was it was hardly ever the drivers fighting, it was the opposing pit crews. The guys that had to rebuild the cars. The only racing I know of now that you can self police without the real police or lawyers is at our speedway track, if your a dick it will get dealt with right in the pits.
It starts with this :20: and most times ends up like this :32: but sometimes looks like this :34:

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I saw a lot of questionable sliders at Lincoln Park. A lot of it was the track being black from top to bottom. I give the track a little break because there was threatening weather in the area, and they wanted to get the show in. I will always take side by side racing over slide jobs. With that said the talent level right now, and the intensity is pretty good right now. Really though we should be talking about A J Hopkins coming back with another strong USAC finish.

Hopkins hit everything but the track