Edwards Keselowski Accident

[Riley]

OK, so I'm not a NASCAR fan, but I just caught the accident between Edwards and Keselowski. I have to say I'm totally disgusted by this kind of driving. It seems that this is acceptable in this branch of motor sport and I'm at a total loss to understand why. How long do we have to wait before a driver is killed, or even worse spectators? If this behavior is allowed to continue then I'm afraid it is just a matter of time. Making the excuse that one driver did this or that to justify wrecking another car is never acceptable.

What is equally worrying to me is that this crass driving is making its way down to the lower levels, and young kids starting out in, for example Legends cars start to believe that the front bumper is a substitute for talent.

This is one of the reasons why this series is 'entertainment' and not motor sport. Very Sad.

[gloomyDAY]

[Scotty G.]

That's how you take care of things on a racetrack in a stock car. As Carl said in his interview, that should be the end of it between those two and that will be that.

Certainly nobody wanted to see him take flight, but I betcha Ole' Brad learned a lesson today. Sometimes a real hard wallop into a wall, will give you a new apprecation for your actions on a racetrack.

Kid is bad fast, but he is a jerk on the track and he has pissed off almost everyone in Nationwide and Cup in the past few years.

You continue to mess with the same guy and someday, he's gonna get you.

[DanicaFan]

What a wild finish. I was so hoping Juan Montoya would of won though.

Im glad Brad K is alright but what comes around goes around. He got his payback from flipping Carl last year at Talladega.

[slorydn1]

We already have a thread for this:
http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...=137269&page=2

That said, I agree with Scotty G

And Gloomy day, it took me three looks at your post before I got it...
LMAO!!!!!!

We don't usually lock threads in the Nascar Forum...feelings don't get hurt quite as easily here as in other racing series...

[gloomyDAY]

And Gloomy day, it took me three looks at your post before I got it...
LMAO!!!!!!

We don't usually lock threads in the Nascar Forum...feelings don't get hurt quite as easily here as in other racing series...

[Riley]

That's how you take care of things on a racetrack in a stock car. As Carl said in his interview, that should be the end of it between those two and that will be that.

Certainly nobody wanted to see him take flight, but I betcha Ole' Brad learned a lesson today. Sometimes a real hard wallop into a wall, will give you a new apprecation for your actions on a racetrack.

Kid is bad fast, but he is a jerk on the track and he has pissed off almost everyone in Nationwide and Cup in the past few years.

You continue to mess with the same guy and someday, he's gonna get you.

So when a car gets into the crowd because of some stupid on track rivalry - what then? Seriously, if Keselowski's car had made it into the crowd would that still have been an acceptable move on Edwards' part? I just don't get it I'm afraid. In my old fasioned book, teaching a lesson would involve being faster than the other driver. What a quaint notion. I know I don't have to watch (and I don't generally, except the road races) but do you guys really think this is the way to go motor racing? It's so sad that a NASCAR drivers' skill set has to include bumping drivers out of the way. Anyone can do that. I'd rather finish second in fair fight that first by pushing my way to a win. Sportsmanship is not in the NASCAR vocabulary. How's that for a thread locker? - NASCAR want this kind of behaviour as it improves the 'show'. It's a soap opera every weekend. That's all it is.

[The instant classic]

What a wild finish. I was so hoping Juan Montoya would of won though.

Im glad Brad K is alright but what comes around goes around. He got his payback from flipping Carl last year at Talladega.

i agree
every week i see Keselowski wreck someone i always say he will learn, and maybe now he has learned

[call_me_andrew]

So when a car gets into the crowd because of some stupid on track rivalry - what then? Seriously, if Keselowski's car had made it into the crowd would that still have been an acceptable move on Edwards' part? I just don't get it I'm afraid. In my old fasioned book, teaching a lesson would involve being faster than the other driver. What a quaint notion. I know I don't have to watch (and I don't generally, except the road races) but do you guys really think this is the way to go motor racing? It's so sad that a NASCAR drivers' skill set has to include bumping drivers out of the way. Anyone can do that. I'd rather finish second in fair fight that first by pushing my way to a win. Sportsmanship is not in the NASCAR vocabulary. How's that for a thread locker? - NASCAR want this kind of behaviour as it improves the 'show'. It's a soap opera every weekend. That's all it is.

I'll agree that on track retaliation is wrong, but NASCAR has their way of keeping things "clean". NASCAR will just let the drivers hit each other all they want, while raising the catch fences and making the cars less prone to getting airborne. It's similar to the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon" in which to factions in a war no longer fight battles, but simulate battles via computer and then execute the "casualites". It takes all the emotional and physical trauma out of war so that it's no longer a thing to be avoided.

[harvick#1]

We already have a thread for this:
http://www.motorsportforums.com/foru...=137269&page=2

That said, I agree with Scotty G

And Gloomy day, it took me three looks at your post before I got it...
LMAO!!!!!!

We don't usually lock threads in the Nascar Forum...feelings don't get hurt quite as easily here as in other racing series...

because we dont have a moderator that checks the forums from time to time