Comments on: Did Kenseth Block Waltrip On Purpose?

By: Jerry B

Jerry B — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:43:07 +0000

I absolutely believe Waltrip intentially blocked Kenseth for the purpose of helping another Toyota get into the chase.

Kenseth was probably just trying to back into his pit so he could get a better angle for exit:-)

By: Kyle

Kyle — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 00:16:07 +0000

I’m just going to through this out there…what good would Kenseth sliding through Waltrip’s box and preventing him to pit do? Make him go all the way to the rear of the field. I love Waltrip to death, but there is not denying that he would have ended up there anyway. All it did was expedite the process of Waltrip finishing outside of the top-30 again.

However, Kenseth was having a bad race and was obviously very agitated at Waltrip, so it certainly is a possibility. Kenseth has gotten into scraps and has shown his anger before so it wouldn’t be totally unbelievable. And, Journo has a point in that Kenseth pretty much never slides through his pit still and doesn’t make mistakes on pit road hardly ever.

By: Bill B

Bill B — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 02:29:53 +0000

At the time he slid through he was still on the lead lap (I think) which means he still was in chase contention. Remember we are talking about Kenseth here not Kyle. I find it hard to believe that Kenseth would be ready to though in the towell on the chase as long as he had a chance. The man had bigger worries than Waltrip, he needed to get that car dialed in and get back in the race.

By: steven

steven — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:10:26 +0000

i’d like to know why kenseth had only 2 early season wins this year. he’s right, he doesn’t deserve to be in the chase.

By: Neon

Neon — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:47:28 +0000

I agree w/ Zieke’s asessment of MK being a nice guy and all, but he sure didn’t have any fire in him per his interviews pre or post race at Richmond. Kinda gave up….IMHO.

After winning Daytona, via silver platter compliments of Sadler, and then again in Fontana a week out he (and his team) did very little throughout the season performance wise. Yet they remained the top money winners until mid summer. This leads me to believe that a team that could just put all their eggs in the Daytona basket, win the super bowl at the beginning of the season and then just simply “park” could put together a nice business model.

Kind of the ultimate “Start-n-park”!

By: Wayne

Wayne — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:36:46 +0000

Whether it was on purpose or not, I laughed and thought it was great. Waltrip continues to get in the way and it would be different if he was competitive, but he is lucky to still have a ride. His TV skills and driving skills are pathetic and yet he is still around, hard to figure? Time for him to go, no more driving and no more TV. Can you tell I can’t stand the guy?

By: Lee Soto

Lee Soto — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:40:19 +0000

1) Reutimann had no chance of making the chase anyway, and i don’t think waltrip was trying to block kenseth for that purpose

2) why would kenseth PURPOSELY block waltrip in retaliation, if he was still trying to fight his way into the top 12. that seems like a suicidal mistake on his part.

By: windowlicker

windowlicker — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:03:23 +0000

Ross: Waltrip will run a minimum of 4-5 races next year according to jayski.

I know how much you love and can’t get enough of Peters.

But as far as I know, there has not been an announcement regarding his plans next year.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:04:14 +0000

I can’t honestly believe he did that on purpose, putting one more nail in his fleeting Chase chances. But, people do stupid things under pressure/anger.

Football players have gotten hurt fighting, Baseball players have gotten hurt throwing a tantrum- all during critical times in the season.

Now, if he had done this to Vickers- who he was fighting with for a Chase spot, I’d believe it more.

By: Ross

Ross — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:43:23 +0000

Licker: Haha, funny!! I think you forgot to mention Timothy Peters or Marcus Whatshisname in your post though.

Has Waltrip announced his retirement yet? Officially?