If there is one thing you can always be sure of, it’s that no matter what changes with the cars and drivers, the short tracks will always provide a good show. Saturday night’s race at Richmond was no exception, and it gave us everything we’ve come to love about short track racing: beating and banging, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘retaliation’
Richmond Keeps The Drama Rolling
May 2nd, 2011 
T.C. David Reutimann And The Art Of Overreaction
October 3rd, 2010 T.C. To anyone not sitting in the #00 pit, what initially transpired between Kyle Busch and David Reutimann was nothing more then a racin’ deal. Reutimann slipped up in the center of the corner, and Busch couldn’t check up fast enough. It was an accident, pure and simple. What followed was a classic overreaction. (In case [...]
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Tags: Chase, David Reutimann, Kansas, Kyle Busch, payback, retaliation, wreck 
78 Comments »A Serious Test For ‘Boys, Have At It’?
July 19th, 2010 Journo “Boys, have at it” may have finally reached its limit. In the final lap of the Nationwide race at Gateway this weekend, familiar foes Brad Keselowski and Carl Edwards went at it…again. Each driver took a shot at the other, beginning with Keselowski into Edwards, and ending with Edwards into Keselowski (and Keselowski into the [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: Bob Keselowski, Boys have at it, Brad Keselowski, Carl Edwards, Gateway, NASCAR, penalties, penalty, retaliation 53 Comments »Self-Policing…I Guess We See How That Worked
March 8th, 2010 Journo NASCAR policies often ebb and flow in their enforcement. In the past we’ve seen a sanctioning body that really likes to loosen things up when people start complaining; but when that inevitable watershed event occurs enforcement gets ramped up again. In true NASCAR form, this season brought us one of those promises of lighter enforcement. [...]
Posted in NASCAR News, Racing Observations Tags: Carl Edwards, NASCAR, payback, retaliation, Robin Pemberton, rules, self-policing 49 Comments »Keselowski Continues To Make Enemies
November 16th, 2009 T.C. Following another run-in with Brad Keselowski during Saturday’s Nationwide Series race at Phoenix, Dave Burns of ESPN asked Denny Hamlin if NASCAR needed to get involved. Hamlin responded: “No, no, I’ll take care of him. It’s no biggy. I got him.” Anybody else looking forward to this situation heading to Homestead? In his ascension to the Cup [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: banging, Brad Keselowski, Brian France, bumping, Dave Burns, Denny Hamlin, homestead, incident, John Darby, phoenix, retaliation 24 Comments »On Track Retaliation: How Much Is Too Much?
August 9th, 2009 T.C. We’ve all seen it happen. From the Friday night local short track race all the way to the Daytona 500. One driver gets wrecked; then he gets mad; then he gets even. But when does one driver retaliating against another driver go too far? I know I’m going to get blasted by the Robby Gordon [...]
Posted in Racing Observations Tags: anger, David Stremme, Driver, Joey Logano, Pocono, retaliation, robby gordon, Watkins Glen, wreck 35 Comments »