Posted by Paul on August 10, 2014 at 19:56:25 from (66.44.132.180):
In Reply to: Re: Tony Stewart (OT) posted by JohnDeere720GA on August 10, 2014 at 19:01:24:
You understand this is a local type of sprint car, not the Sprint cup top end race cars?
There are no spotters. No radios.
The cars are designed with as little weight as possible, no transmission, no clutch, no starter, brakes are not that great. They are designed to go as fast as possible with as much hp, as little weight, no nothing extra.
You do not stop the car, you have no clutch. There is a simple disconnect, but then you need to be push started.
They are set up with different size tires on the left from the right so as to bite in and turn on the corners, and what little extra weight there is is placed to make them heavy on one side. They are designed and built to drift around the corners; when driving slowly* they handle very poorly! they do not steer or manuver well at all! you typically are using the throttle more than the steering wheel to drive them. The different sized wheels make them handle like a Mac truck, not a sports car, at slow* speeds. Often the easiest way to change direction is to gun the engine, not turn the steering wheel; the car turns left when you gun it so if Tony gunned it, was he trying to turn away from the fella? You presume a lot with your limited knowledge of sprint cars.....
*Remember, slow speed is a relative term. They have no clutch, only direct drive shaft, so at idle they still are moving pretty fast, there is no slowing down to 10mph when someone is running around on the track in front of you.
This sort of disagreement and driver vs car dance goes on 100s of times every weekend, there are accepted ways of showing your anger by running around and waving a finger or throwing a glove and getting over it. The approved response of the car driver going around is to gun your engine in reply and get on around the lap, let the track crew clear off the track and get on with the race. Every pit meeting the drivers are told to stay in the vehicle, get off the track as fast as you can if that is unsafe, and every driver knows the limitations of these cars, the kid, in a calmer moment, would have known playing chicken with a sprint car is not a game you will win......
What went wrong here is the guy on foot was in a dark area in a dark suit and ran around way too aggressively and Tony was following another car so couldn't see the kid until too late. Too close. Tony would be expecting the kid out on the track up by the wrecked car, the kid ran a fair ways along the track against traffic, then came down the track way too far into traffic from a blind angle to Tony.
So very sad, but the kid did this to himself.
Now any given day, Tony is just as much of a hothead, and could easily be the person trying to shake a finger as someone driving by, and he be the one ends up run over. He has that exact same temper. And then - it would be his fault for getting out of the car and go running around on the track on foot in harms way.
If you dislike Tony then probably global warming is his fault also, and I understand where you are coming from, it's just going to be his fault no matter what.
And yes, it looks like the lap before Tony did a botched slide job, tapped the kid and wrecked him. Happens all the time, but would be Tonys fault for the contact, you need to clear a guy on a slide job or it is your fault.
(This is dirt track. The rules of who's fault can be different than in NASCAR or Indy where the car in front is in the right.... It seems from your comments you are not quite in tune with dirt track rules - no spotters or radio, no stopping or really slowing, very poor car handling when idle speed, etc.)
The young guy just got too tied up in his emotions of the moment and it cost him his life, he made some very poor choices in a blind rage of the moment.
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