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11/18/20, 9:35 PM |
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Lets just face it, They all do it just some are more noticeable than others. Back in my day if you did some of these moves you got a black eye or a bloody nose from Mr. Bob Kinser or Mr. Jack Hewitt.
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11/18/20, 10:00 PM | #22 | |
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He is one of the (many) reasons I don’t care to go to races anymore. $$ has ruined this sport along with most of the other pastimes today. Call me old, old fashioned, intolerant or whatever you want.
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11/18/20, 10:41 PM | #23 | ||
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94, don’t be coming to races out here without notice! Back to the topic. Does anyone think this move was not intentional? Here’s where I need some help from some of my veteran race fans. As I’ve mentioned before, what I’ve been respectively told, in USAC, there’s no penalty for contact. Seems to me I remember Steve Butler getting penalized for contact. Different administration now, so maybe rules are different. To me, contact is different than a dump, but that’s just me
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11/19/20, 8:04 AM |
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I remember Jack Hewitt saving Butlers hide from a butt kickin back in the day due to contact on the track.
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11/19/20, 9:30 AM | #25 | ||
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Race Count This Year: 6 Race Count Last Year: 25 Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 9,220 |
Wasn't Ballou's first trip to the penalty box due to "Avoidable Contact"?
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11/19/20, 1:10 PM |
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Race Count This Year: 38 Race Count Last Year: 85 Join Date: Nov 2014 Posts: 9,821 |
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11/19/20, 1:35 PM |
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Just a bit of speculation from a bleacher jockey here, but, had Steve Buckwalter been allowed access to within arms distance of Windom last year at Williams Grove he (Windom) may well have developed a much different perspective on whether to make the type of move that he made on Stenhouse at Bakersfield.
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11/19/20, 3:03 PM | #28 | ||
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I am going to say this and may step on people's toes but it is what it is my family and I now have been in sprint car racing a very long time the whole atmosphere has even changed people used to want to do the right thing and be a racing family and help how ever is needed but it is so sad and will eventually kill the sport that teams with money come in and think they are the next super star and that goes all the way back to Gordon so I have been told the racing community used to have a few bad apples now it has a few good people and teams with big money are here one day and gone the next and bring all the bad piss poor attitude with them but it seems to linger even when they are gone and we as a team have been giggled at and some have said stuff like we dont belong there but the funny part we dont have to have someone to spoon feed the little guy he always manages to rise above and keep moving and when they miss the shows and the little guy cruises right on by it's worth every once of blood and sweat you pour into it and with that being said when all the big dollars dry up racing will come back and rise from the ashes and then racing will once be what it was once again
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11/19/20, 7:37 PM |
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You are a driver it's the last lap and you may have only this one chance in your career to join the USAC Triple Crown list of course you are going to do whatever you have to do to get there. I would say most in the field would do the same thing in that situation.
People may not like it but one thing history will say is Chris Windom USAC Triple Crown winner.
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