I have driven race cars. In my own mind I am sure Tony was trying to show the kid who the boss was. But of course he did not mean to kill him, just wanted to give him a scare.
Tony Stewart may have hit/ran over someone
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I have driven race cars. In my own mind I am sure Tony was trying to show the kid who the boss was. But of course he did not mean to kill him, just wanted to give him a scare.
What one of those posters. You want him banned for this and next year? It's a very sad, sad thing that happened. Lots of unconclusives so far and will probably always will be.
Just my thoughts - in real life, if I get in a minor argument with someone, they text someone saying we got in an argument, and then 5 minutes later I accidentally run over them because they jumped out in front of my car, it's going to be very hard to tell the cops there was no intent, they ran out in front of me, especially when they have someone else telling them that the person I killed and I were in an argument a few minutes before.
I feel like that's the same case here. You can't prove he did it with intent. But you also can't prove he did it without intent. Was he going to just try and scare him? Did he really NEVER see him the ENTIRE time the kid was outside of his car?
Do they not have spotters in sprint racing? Honest question, I don't know.
I feel like that's the same case here. You can't prove he did it with intent. But you also can't prove he did it without intent. Was he going to just try and scare him? Did he really NEVER see him the ENTIRE time the kid was outside of his car?
Do they not have spotters in sprint racing? Honest question, I don't know.
Well, it's the fact that we have hot heads like Tony Stewart who run over people, intentionally cause accidents like he did last year at this same place, and consistently gets away with his behavior.
Then we see guys like Denny Hamlin, who says he doesn't like the "Car of Tomorrow" and is docked a billion points for bashing Nascar.
Just like when a pedestrian gets hit on 610 or Beltway 8 down here. The first question everyone in the world ask is wtf are you doing out of the car?! Don't get out of the car.
Can't believe Tony is racing today. All eyes are gonna be on him which I'm sure is exactly what he wants
From seeing what some of the eyewitnesses have said, saying he was driving towards him and hit the throttle, and then swerved, this was my initial reaction.
I'm sorry but do you think TS wanted to kill the kid? I mean seriously...on a racetrack, where he makes his money in front of a bunch of people.............................
This sounds like it from the descriptions. Going to be to hard to prove but it was under caution and sounds deliberate even if the other guy put himself in danger.
No, I think he was trying to make a point. I don't think he ever intended to even hit the kid. I do think he intended to go towards the kid.
That's all just speculation at this point.
I don't give a **** about racing and I don't know Tony Stewart from Tony the Tiger but this kid walked into the middle of a race track into the path of oncoming cars, that's where the fault lies.
Did you see the video? There was a car in front of Tony, possibly blocking his view. Perhaps he didn't see the guy dressed in all black until too late. Perhaps he drifted up the track, saw the guy at the last minute and then gunned his car to get back down.
I don't know. But neither do you or any of these eye-witnesses. I have read quite a few of their comments and they seem to think they know what Stewart was thinking or trying to do. They don't.
I'm not even saying he needs to go to jail. I'm saying Nascar needs to ban him from racing for awhile to try and stop his hot headedness.
There's no possible way to know at this point, I don't think it'd be at all unlikely that you wouldn't notice someone out of their car, at least not until it's too late to do anything about it. He's wearing a dark uniform against a dirt track back drop at night, and it's not like a driver is driving around thinking they should be on the lookout for people on the track.
