I was just gonna sit here and spectate but what the heck...
I was in the stands and saw the contact. It was about as hard a hit as I've seen involving two guys going for the same piece of real estate with a transfer spot at stake. That being said, I can't imagine a guy of Brad Kuhn's experience going into somebody that hard intentionally, knowing full well that the consequences could be just as dire for the hitter as the hittee. He may have been trying a monster slider and mis-timed it, or he may have been trying to move Shane Cottle up the track, just not as forcefully, and didn't check up quite enough. Only Brad knows for sure what he had in mind, but my guess is that it didn't quite turn out the way he planned. The unfortunate thing is they didn't show a replay of the incident on the big screen; does anybody know if there is video (of the racing, not the fight)?