Tony Stewart may have hit/ran over someone
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Except they were on a track. The kid should expect there to be cars coming, while drivers should not expect there to be someone standing in their way.
In the end the majority of the blame will fall on the kid. He shouldn't have wandered out on the track and that's why the bigger circuits fine drivers for that crap. Tony's actions will be questioned but unless he comes out and admits he was trying to punk the kid by spraying mud on him Smoke will just say he didn't see him and was trying to avoid him.
This is a VERY common occurrence. The race was under yellow, so the cars were not at high speed. Did he get too close? Probably, but nothing uncommon with it. He didn't jump in front of the car, he was off to the side. No one knows if TS saw him the entire time or at the last minute. But to lay 100% blame on the deceased is short sighted.
watching the video makes it much more complicated than "Tony ran the guy over, free pass to jail". Kid was darting up and down the track and that blue car has to dodge out of the way. There was a sprint car caller on a show last night who said you cannot see out the right side of those cars which is why the safety workers will always approach from the left. Said you also will keep revving the engine under caution because it'll die or something otherwise. I still think Tony didn't do all he could to avoid the driver - but in more of a holding his line way instead of swerving at him. It would have been incredibly stupid for Tony to race today, so I'm glad he's not doing that.
I saw someone say they should start suspending drivers who charge at the cars like that (happened in the Nationwide race yesterday as well) and I think that's a good idea.
Don't think Tony will be suspended or charged, but I could foresee a civil suit in which Tony would probably just settle, but after seeing the video, Ward played stupid games and won a stupid prize.
Though if Tony ever steps foot in another local track race, he's a moron. In the past year he's been involved in an accident that broke a girl's back, destroyed his own leg, and now this.
If racers walking into the paths of oncoming cars during races is common occurrence then maybe there need to be some changes made. Or maybe it'll just work itself out eventually.
If the blue car hits him this goes from OMG TONY STEWART IS A MONSTER to wow that is an unfortunate accident, and it looks like that was very close to happening from the video.
exactly, and we can't see where Ward goes after the blue car dodges him - and that car had more lead time than Stewart's.
I still don't see from the video where the other driver walked into the path of an oncoming car. He is off to the side.
Oh I've seen it, watched a handful of times. The reason he gets hit with the RR tire is because he is off to the side and TS's car tail whips. Hence, he is not in the path of an oncoming car, he is off to the side.
From Fox Sports article "The video showed Ward to the right of Stewart's car, which seemed to kick out from the rear and hit Ward. "
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And why does the car kick out? I'm going with he was attempting to turn out of the way as much as you can on a dirt track because he was in front of him.
In the video Tony's car doesn't swerve until after he hits him, and even then Tony's car veers towards the wall and the back end moves left because of the human being wrapped around his right rear tire.
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from what I saw, it fishtailed after Ward was hit and had resistance on the back tires.
