screwing is putting it mildly
Posted on 09/15/2015 7:57:46 PM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
screwing is putting it mildly
I trying to show my “lighter side” (choke, gag)
heh heh heh... i hear ya
Whoa. I can’t believe you said that.
good on Jeff... the end of an era
is that the phrase of the evening??? 8^)
:)
Just randomly peppering threads. :)
yeah, a Roman Candle...
LOL, yeah i saw that 8^)
LOL!!!
Randomly. Peppering.
I can’t believe you said that ;-)
Kyle Busch says drivers involved impacts NASCAR penalties: Does the name of a driver or drivers involved have an impact on penalties issued by NASCAR? #18-Kyle Busch says it does. Busch believes NASCAR concerns itself more with the driver involved than the violation that occurred. Busch, who has had plenty of run-ins with NASCAR over on-track incidents in his career, was asked Sunday his opinion about Kenseth's actions toward Logano. "Did he do anything wrong? I don't know. Did he do anything right? I don't know," Busch said. "I think it all depends on whose name's above the door on whether or not you're allowed to do it." Busch said he wasn't sure NASCAR needed to necessarily curtail any of the actions taking place in recent races, but needed to enforce its rules consistently. "It's boys being boys right now. You got to be consistent. I definitely feel NASCAR is very consistent in being inconsistent on calls," he said. "I think it's 'BS.' "They better - I say 'They better', but they don't have to listen to me for squat. Really doesn't matter what I say." Asked on pit road after the race if he would be racing next week at Texas if he had done the same thing as Kenseth on Sunday, Busch simply said, "Nope."(Motorsport)(11-2-2015)
Contact between Kenseth and Logano at Martinsville; NASCAR will consider penalties for Kenseth: Two weeks after #20-Matt Kenseth was taken out by #22-Joey Logano, Kenseth returned the favor, wrecking him when Logano was leading the Sprint Cup Series race with 47 laps remaining Sunday at Martinsville Speedway. Kenseth, who himself was vying for the lead a handful of laps earlier, was involved in a wreck that he felt was triggered by Logano’s Penske Racing teammate #2-Brad Keselowski. But Sunday’s wreck appeared to be in response to an incident two weeks earlier, when Logano turned Kenseth for the win with five laps remaining at Kansas Speedway, a move that eventually kept Kenseth from advancing to the third round of the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
“What happened at Kansas was a completely different deal,” Logano said. “We were racing for the win, and he blocks you a few times, and we raced hard, and he blocked me and spun out. That’s what happened there. Here, he was a complete coward. ... It’s a chicken-you-know-what move to completely take out the leader when your race is over. ... He’ll have his.”
Although Kenseth’s car was heavily damaged, NASCAR told his team not to repair it and that he couldn’t return to the race.
“I had two chances to win in the last three weeks and got wrecked out of both of them going for the lead, one from him and one from Brad,” Kenseth said. “That’s disappointing.” Kenseth didn’t directly answer whether he turned Logano intentionally. “The right front was dragging down there and probably should’ve went to the garage area and went into the corner there and, man, couldn’t get it to turn and collected him,” Kenseth said. “I know it’s got to be disappointing for him, you know? It’s a tough sport. Some days you’re the bat, and some days you’re the ball. I was the ball a few weeks ago, and I was the ball again today, so that part is never fun.”
Kenseth and team owner Joe Gibbs met with NASCAR officials after the race. They both declined to comment after the meeting.
Keselowski said he lost control of his car after getting hit from behind.
NASCAR executive vice president Steve O’Donnell said after the race that he was disappointed in Kenseth’s actions and that NASCAR will make any decisions of additional discipline by Tuesday. He wouldn’t rule out a suspension. “There’s still a lot to digest from what happened tonight,” O’Donnell said. “We’ll do that and have some additional conversations. ... What was disappointing today was in the incident, [it was] a driver not competing for a win [and] was in fact many laps down when that happened. In our minds, that’s a little bit different than two drivers really going after it coming out of Turn 4 for a win.”
Bob Pockrass â€@bobpockrass 12h12 hours ago
For reference, Gordon was fined $100,000 and docked 25 points for turning Bowyer in 2012. #nascar
it's entertainment, not racing
After Joey Logano and Matt Kenseth tangled while racing for the lead two weekends ago at Kansas Speedway, NASCAR chairman and CEO Brian France called the incident “a great example of everybody doing probably exactly what they should be doing.”
But after Sunday’s Chase race at Martinsville Speedway, where Kenseth dumped Logano in what appeared to be obvious payback for their Kansas dust-up, NASCAR may have a different perspective.
Unlike the Kansas wreck in which Logano knocked Kenseth out of the way as the two battled hard for an all-important win in the closing laps, Sunday’s collision came as Logano led and Kenseth nursed a slow and badly damaged car around the track after being involved in a separate wreck a few laps earlier.
As long as Jeff Gordon wins the championship NASCAR will be happy.
nutscar
Contact while competing for a position (including first or the win) is incidental to the sport. Deliberately seeking revenge while running at least 7 laps down (thus, out of contention)and pile driving the leading car into the wall, taking him out of contention for the race, is not racing. It is unsportsmanlike conduct, and an action detrimental to racing, not to mention dangerous, and should be heavily punished by NASCAR. Sitting out the remaining races for 2015 will have an impact on Kenseth and will be noticed by all other drivers, thus changing their actions in future races.
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