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Kevin

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    EII laying the hammer! Spot on here.

     

    Hopefully the next kid watching this will learn that lesson.

     

    Hopefully every race car driver or driver of a motor vehicle will watch and learn. It's truly a heartbreaking and avoidable scenario, and arguing for the sake of arguing is beyond disgusting.

     

    Nobody knows what happened other than a man, in an unsafe manner, exited his race car to confront another driver and was struck and killed. Intent or not on all parties involved MANY lives have been ruined, and one life lost.

     

    Mods, please lock this thread.

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    5 seconds is actually a heckuva a lot of time to get upset. Probably both more than needed and more than he was afforded by the situation. That it's a tight window probably doesn't hurt the argument that he might have been annoyed and done something rash without weighing the risk.

     

    A guy cuts you off and how long does it take you to hit the horn? That's the kind of response a rev could've been, without realizing how close it was.

     

    Ok. It still doesn't answer the question of why/what would piss him off enough to "brush back" Ward.

     

  3. For all of the "hot headed" theorists. What would Stewart be pissed about? At most one could (and some have) said that Stewart caused Ward to spin. There are conflicting accounts of that as well but let's say Stewart wrecked Ward. Why would Stewart get pissed? The one that should've been pissed was Ward, and obviously he was pissed.

     

    Stewart didn't have time to lose his temper. Even if Ward waving his finger at him pissed him off he had what 5 seconds to "retaliate" or "brush back" the guy? Five seconds to notice the guy, process what was happening, and act?

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    Well, being a former hot head, I can speak as an expert witness ;).

     

    Anger takes over certain people to the point of no control. I've been there, plenty. Stewart has seen his fair share of incidents where it's clear he has anger management issues. Someone like me or most likely TS, doesn't have the capability to rationalize what is happening in that moment. It's "I see red".

     

    Not saying that's what happened only that people can easily get to a place where all reasonable thought is vanquished.

     

    And Tony Stewart was pissed about what exactly?

  5. What a terrible situation. The young man died, a total shame. I've read several reports of eyewitnesses saying that Stewart "gunned it before the accident. If investigators believe that to be true, Stewart will be going to jail, right?

     

    In the main video I saw the camera was in the grandstands. The accident happened on the other side of the track. It's quite possible that the sound of the car "gunning" it was on the start/finish side of the track nearest the grandstands.

  6. So let's say there's a shooting competition at a shooting range.

     

    Someone "not all there" goes running out into the shooting range, near the targets.

     

    Would you ...

     

    a) Expect the shooters to stop shooting their guns because there would be a good chance they could accidentally shoot the person who foolishly entered the range.

     

    b) Expect the shooters to keep trying to hit their targets, because after all, it's "what they do." They're there to shoot their guns, dammit!

     

    So how does target practice relate to driving a race car, on a dirt surface, at a poorly lit track, at night hitting a guy wearing a black helmet, and black firesuit compare?

     

    It would probably be more like this.

     

    You're driving a race car, during a race, on a DIRT surface on a poorly lit track. You touch another car, that car wrecks. You drive back around the track at a slower pace (40-50mph). While coming to the point of the crash the car in front you swerves to the left and standing there is a man in a black fire suit and black helmet, what do you do?

     

    A. swer…….too late, you just hit him.

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