And if he slammed the brakes, what control would he have had?
The speculation Stewart intentionally murdered the guy is nuts.
“The speculation Stewart intentionally murdered the guy is nuts.”
I don’t think he intended to hit the guy, maybe just intimidate him.
The fact that he throttled the engine just as the incident happened sure doesn’t look good.
Who said he intentionally killed the guy?
It was just Tony being Tony, only this time he made a “mistake”, a huge mistake
We fault liberals for making decisions based upon ignorance, but it's something you can see on FR all day.
I'd venture that before seeing the video, 99% of those faulting Stewart had never seen a sprint car before. I'd be surprised if any had ever been to a sprint car race, and I'd bet this week's lunch money none have ever driven one...and if you asked any what WoO was, they'd say it was a clandestine organization working toward one-world government.
Someone up the line said visibility was practically non existent, and that's true. The wing complicates things.
There's no point in trying to "steer" a sprint car. The steering wheel is used for loading it onto the trailer and for fine tuning the steering. The real steering is done with the throttle. Take a car that weighs as little as 1100 pounds, add an engine with somewhere between 600 and 1400 HP with no clutch or flywheel, with skinny tires on the front and wide, STAGGERED tires on the rear (meaning the outside tire is noticeably taller than the inside).
With any kind of hookup on the rear tires, many sprint cars will lift the inside front tire through turns. So no, the car does not "steer."
The kid was not run into the wall by Stewart...he was where he shouldn't have been. Skilled open wheel drivers can run side by side, at 90+ MPH, through turns...sideways. Stewart had position.