Originally Posted by sc96:
Are we putting kids in the public eye way to soon ? Are we asking them to carry the family future up the ladder of success at an age when they should be worrying about the science test on Friday . I have been wondering you put a kid that's 13-15 yrs old in a sprint car because he or she has had so much early success that people say man that kid is good you gotta move them to Indiana right now if they want a shot at the big time. Then things don't work out like you had planed the 13-15 yr old is now 18-20 still running sprint cars and old news cause well now there is a new hot shoe and she is only 13. Then 18-20 yr old kid feels like man I let my whole family down mom and dad spent thousands of dollars and I'm a nobody cause I'm still in sprint cars!!!!! Then he or she cracks under the pressure and does something stupid and everyone says how could they do that they have the world by ass !!!!! How many of these kids are out there and turn to drugs,alcohol, domestic violence???? It's going to give our sport a very bad reputation and we all pay the price
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I think that will only happen if we fail to see the errors we are making in pushing kids to hard to get into this car or that race and we have more incidents then we have already had. Putting that kind of pressure on anyone isn't right. We have had drug incidents before : Tyler Walker, Shane Hmiel, and Aaron Fike. Those incidents have been our wake up call to stop putting so much pressure on young drivers to succeed as it only caused them to look for an "out" that allows them an escape from the pressure. That's doing them no good and it only hurts them in the moment and potentially for the rest of their lives. Yes I want to see people achieve their dreams but not at the expense of their childhood, future or (God forbid) their life.