Posted on 04/12/2006 3:51:57 PM PDT by NormsRevenge
CONCORD, N.C. - Greg Biffle's girlfriend faces a reprimand from NASCAR about her pit-road confrontation with Kurt Busch's fiance after the two drivers wrecked at Texas Motor Speedway.
Busch hit the back of Biffle's car early in Sunday's race, causing an accident that ended Biffle's day. Biffle, the defending race winner, had led 49 of the first 82 laps before the crash and wound up 42nd.
Moments after the wreck, TV cameras caught girlfriend Nicole Lunders slamming a water bottle on Biffle's pit box. She then marched down pit road and climbed halfway up Busch's box and had a heated exchange with Eva Bryan. The brief confrontation created a buzz in NASCAR, and the sanctioning body wants to cool down the emotions.
"There will be some conversations that will be had with the people that participated, and we'll make sure that this doesn't carry on and into the garage or anywhere else," Robin Pemberton, vice president of competition, said Wednesday. "You've got to remember, most everybody in the garage area is friends, and those two girls in particular have a close relationship. Tempers flare, and we'll look at that and we'll make sure it doesn't carry on any further than that."
Biffle and Busch spent three seasons as Cup teammates at Roush Racing and had a friendly relationship that often put their girlfriends in the same social settings. Both drivers were testing at Richmond International Raceway on Wednesday and not immediately available for comment.
NASCAR does not have a steadfast rule against team members entering other pit boxes, but generally frowns upon it if the reason for approaching the area stems from something that happened in race.
"When altercations and things like that happen, we recommend that you stay in your own area," Pemberton said. "You can go have a conversation, but it can't be heated per se."
Family members are typically given entrance to the track on a "license" that recognizes them as a team member, meaning their actions can be policed by NASCAR and the sanctioning body reserves the right to revoke their pass at any time.
Lowe's Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler said wives and girlfriends had a stormy history during NASCAR's early days and many have been thrown out of tracks because of their behavior.
"That kind of stuff was common back in the old days, everybody was fighting back then, especially the women," Wheeler said. "But there wasn't the TV coverage we have today, so it wasn't that big of a deal."
who cares what greg dibble looks like?
LOLOL
LOL!!
Cat fight!
Was there jello involved, at least?
I vote Nicole
Nicole, but I'll let them fight it out first.
Normally I'd go with the bigger rack, but Eva looks high-mileage.
How about PB and GG in a cage death-match? My $$ would be on PB.
LMAO!!
Oh for cripes sake did Nascar reprimand Kurt Busch when he went down to Riggs crewchief after he thought he had been wronged on the track.
Here is Steve Byrnes report I posted on the Nascar thread.
On Sunday at Texas, I was standing right behind Kurt Busch's pit area when Greg Biffle's girlfriend, Nicole Lunders, walked over to speak with Busch's fiancee Eva Bryan.
When Lunders climbed off of the pit box, she walked right toward me, grabbed my wrist and looked me in the eye.
"I'm mad because he could have hurt Greg," she said.
She wasn't upset that her boyfriend crashed out of the race. She was concerned about his health and his safety. She's taken a lot of kidding and criticism, and it's really a big deal about nothing......
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/5496680
I forgot we only have Busch racing this week-end.
AARRGGHH!!!!
Yep Jr's in the dirt at his new venture in Paducah with Schrader on the 14th and the Busch boys are in Nashville on Saturday.
The following Saturday is night racing at Phoenix. My favorite, I love the cars under the lights.
Here's Delana Harvicks take on the Nicole/Eva incident. I was kind of thinking she wouldn't be one to mess with but she comes off pretty smart about all of it unlike Happy sometimes.
People have emailed me tons of questions about the confrontation between Greg Biffle's girlfriend and Kurt Busch's fiance. Stuff like that definitely happens more often than you see on tv. I have been confronted in the past myself. It's a double-edge sword. You (as a wife) are so emotionally attached to everything that goes on and you always want the best for your husband (or in her case boyfriend). Plus, there are things that go on behind the scenes that the public never, ever hears about. So sometimes we as wives see things play out in a different light. It's a dangerous sport and nobody wants to see another driver hurt (I don't care if you totally can't stand them). But, in my opinion, it's completely inappropriate to involve someone's wife or girlfriend when it relates to an on-track incident. They aren't behind the wheel of the car. They have no involvement whatsoever. I think she made a bad decision and would imagine she regrets it by now. (That's not to say there hasn't been a few times I have wanted to tell another driver to get his head out of his rear end. But I want to tell Kevin that sometimes too.)
Best crack of the day.
Hey now, Larry, we'll have no digs against older, well-racked women!! Okay, so my deal finally went down in flames, but for years, it was sweeeet..... ; )
Delana Harvick is a car owner. Joe Nemechecks wife is, too.
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