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7/21/09, 5:57 PM   #16
Re: Let's Not forget What Happened...
Jerry Shaw
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Originally Posted by Fisher79 View Post
Not trying to rain on the parade here, but I never did understand why all the fans out there liked to cheer for a guy who, a lot of the time, appeared to not really care whether or not he ran over you or turned you around, as long as he got around you.

He won a ton of races and the statistics make his greatness pretty evident, but there are more than a handful of guys who won a bunch as well and won them in a much cleaner fashion, overall.

Fire away.
Of course there was controversy surrounding Rich Vogler. Like Scott said, Rich was a polarizing figure in racing. IMO, it is a bit out of place to try to drag a deceased driver through the mud, on a thread where fans of his are just memorializing him, on the anniversary of his death. There's a time and a place for everything.

Jerry
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