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NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart Runs Over a Guy

Just like dirtbikes, on dirt if you want to change direction quickly you steer on the throttle not on the brakes.
 
Stewart and all of his colleagues have been involved in many life threatening crash situations while inside their cars during their careers.

I have a really hard time believing any of them would intentionally run down a fellow competitor standing defenseless outside their car.

A tragic event with too many "if's" and "but's" to reach any other conclusion than that it was a tragic accident caused by a competitor putting themselves in a potentially lethal situation by exiting their car when other cars were still at speed on the track.

Condolences to the family and friends of 20 year old Kevin Ward.

Simply awful.
 
Blankpage said:
The rear of the car slid to the inside away from the Ward but there's a limit to how quickly you can move off line on dirt.
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Ass ends step out, not in. I think you're talking about it pulling back in after it steps out when he lets off.
 
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Marcoose said:
Splitting hairs. Puppy dogs, race drivers, whatnot, all the same difference. Drama sells.
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Drama sells, indeed. But there's absolutely no correlation with humans and animals. If that were the case, you'd see people charged with murder for shooting a dog.
 
They're going to want to know why he blipped it. If he has nothing believable to say, things will get interesting.
 
NasCar won't let Tony race at the Glenn today

:dunno not sure the long term implications.

SHR's release is all pr
 
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Source? I read that *he* decided not to on CNN.
 
GAJ said:
I have a really hard time believing [Stewart] would intentionally run down a fellow competitor standing defenseless outside their car.
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Perhaps not intentionally, but for territorial/testosterone sake, something Stewart is known for. Heck, Senna and Schumacher crashed into competitors (albeit inside their cars) and Briatore/Piquet/Alonso concocted a serious safety car crash to win a race.
 
auntiebling said:
Isn't there some kind of rule of the track about staying in your car till emergency personnel arrive, unless its on fire?

A half way decent lawyer will point out that getting hit by a vehicle is a predictable consequence of walking into traffic.

I predict an acquittal in the criminal trial, and a large chunk of money awarded in the civil case
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+1 It's sad that he died but why would you endanger your life like that?

russ69 said:
The yellow is fresh, guys were just easing out of it and getting sorted out. Ward runs down the track and another car is blocking Stewart's forward view. Its tragic but I don't see any intentional contact.
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+1 it looks like the other vehicle was blocking the view of Stewart's vehicle. I don't understand how any of you hear a blipping of the throttle from Stewart's vehicle considering the video is picking up audio from half way across the track while the video is zoomed in. That blipping could have been any vehicle on the track between the zoomed in video and the camera man.
 
Tony has proven himself as a hot head after many incidents. He's gotten out, pointed fingers, thrown helmets, pushed and shoved. He crashed the guy, the other guy gets out and points him out as Tony himself has done in the past. I hope it's not the case, but looks like Tony gassed it to kick the back end out to kick dirt on him as he went by - not realizing how close he actually was. Intended to actually hit him, no. But spray with dirt by being an ass as he's proven himself time and time again, absolutely.
 
Entoptic said:
I don't understand how any of you hear a blipping of the throttle from Stewart's vehicle considering the video is picking up audio from half way across the track while the video is zoomed in.
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Turn it up. Everyone is off the gas. All you hear is Stewart's blip and it matches his loss of traction.

One thing I will say is that it looks like the lighting isn't great and the guy is wearing all black.
 
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Blankpage said:
I don't know anything about the other hicks involved in this form of racing but Tony Stewart is legit. We can't even pretend to be able to do what he can in a car. I believe his maneuver was trying to avoid the guy and not to hit him.
Dude should not have been standing on the track, he's dead because of his anger and stupidity.
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You are pretty tiresome with the constant bagging on dirt track racing. You do realize there is a board member who dirt track races cars and was cool enough to share his experiences with the board? Those were great threads.

Your comment about Stuart makes no logical sense. If his ability to drive is truly exceptional, if he has total control of his race car, if he "legit", then it follows that this was not just a unavoidable accident. Stuart made driving decision that effected the performance of his race car.

I think Stuart was trying to give a "fuck you" back to the kid who was flipping him off. I don't think he wanted to hit him. I'm sure he did not want to kill him. But, he probably wanted to scare him. He fucked up and the kid is dead. Was the kid being stupid? Sure. So was Stuart. Stuart escalated the situation and now has to deal with the driving decision he made.
 
Mike95060 said:
I think Stuart was trying to give a "fuck you" back to the kid who was flipping him off. I don't think he wanted to hit him. I'm sure he did not want to kill him. But, he probably wanted to scare him. He fucked up and the kid is dead. Was the kid being stupid? Sure. So was Stuart. Stuart escalated the situation and now has to deal with the driving decision he made.
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Ed Zachary, but what should come of it and what is likely to come of it? Seems like some sort of manslaughter to me, but I bet nothing criminal comes of it.
 
Cali said:
Tony has proven himself as a hot head after many incidents. He's gotten out, pointed fingers, thrown helmets, pushed and shoved. He crashed the guy, the other guy gets out and points him out as Tony himself has done in the past. I hope it's not the case, but looks like Tony gassed it to kick the back end out to kick dirt on him as he went by - not realizing how close he actually was. Intended to actually hit him, no. But spray with dirt by being an ass as he's proven himself time and time again, absolutely.
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these guys race on margins of millimeters so to say he didn't know "how close he actually was" is just wrong. Their perceptive ability and capability to determine where there car is in reference to multiple reference points on track are what make them so great. He knew where the disabled vehicle was on the the track, he put it there and he came in high... Tony dun fucked up.

Mike95060 said:
If his ability to drive is truly exceptional, if he has total control of his race car, if he "legit", then it follows that this was not just a unavoidable accident. Stuart made driving decision that effected the performance of his race car.

I think Stuart was trying to give a "fuck you" back to the kid who was flipping him off. I don't think he wanted to hit him. I'm sure he did not want to kill him. But, he probably wanted to scare him. He fucked up and the kid is dead. Was the kid being stupid? Sure. So was Stuart. Stuart escalated the situation and now has to deal with the driving decision he made.
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this

I don't think hitting him was intentional but he came in high and it appears he either made a steering input or a throttle input which adjusted the line of the vehicle...
 
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byke said:
Ed Zachary, but what should come of it and what is likely to come of it? Seems like some sort of manslaughter to me, but I bet nothing criminal comes of it.
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The sheriffs dept already said, almost immediately, that they had no plans to file charges.

"Stewart has fully cooperated" with an investigation, Povero said. "He acknowledges the collision with the driver."
Povero said it appeared to an on-track incident.
"But I want to make it very clear, there are no criminal charges pending at this time," he said.
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http://www.cnn.com/2014/08/10/justice/tony-stewart-hits-driver/index.html
 
Yeah, this story made the top of the New York Times. I bet a driver could Daytona 500 10x in a row and not make the front page.

The casual watcher, which I am one, "knows" that Tony Stewart is a hothead, so this could be intentional. I also wonder about running into the middle of a dirt track. I couldn't imagine doing it.
 
Yeah, I know. But he (Sheriff Povero) would be screwing himself down the road if they filed after the autopsy results since he's already called it a racing incident.
 
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