I'll preface this by saying that I like watching Robert Ballou race. He is exciting to watch, and is what a good, successful sprint car driver should be, brave and a hard nosed competitor. But I cringe every time some one sticks a microphone in front of him.

For at least the last two years he has publicly complained about track prep, officiating, other drivers...pretty much everything but the man in the mirror. He has complained on Twitter, Facebook and in interviews at tracks at MSCS and USAC sanctioned races. We all make choices in life. Robert made a choice to be critical of the organizations that provide him a track to race on, the organization responsible for organizing the races and the other competitors (not Saturday night, but in previous posts and interviews). Robert made a CHOICE. He was betting there would be no consequences for his actions. He was wrong.

Now...personally, I would have preferred to see USAC levy a LARGE fine on him (my thoughts are take his average 2018 finish payout times the number of races remaining) put him on probation, freeze his points where they are for 2018, but still allow him to race. That way, if he does better than average, he makes some money. If not, well then maybe he needs to do makes changes to his program.

We have all made bad choices in life. We have all faced consequences for those choices. We (hopefully) have learned from those choices. Hopefully Robert Ballou will learn from his choices.