Who’s to blame for the problems at Talladega? The Drivers. Yeah I said it, and many people will disagree with that, but the facts are facts, people need to look at history before opening their mouths and sticking their shoes, sandals, boots, or whatever else they got on in it.
Today’s NASCAR media, and fans, and for that fact today’s NASCAR drivers “knee-jerk” reaction too much and NASCAR abides by them. The NASCAR media, fans, and drivers themselves have ruined NASCAR, at least the NASCAR I grew up watching.
As for the Talladega incidents, let’s start first by how they’re caused. BY THE DRIVERS. How so? Easy, you got 35 to 38 drivers who have it in their heads that they need to be infront of the pack to miss the “Big One” so what do you get, those 35 to 38 drivers going for the same piece of real estate at once, that real estate is the lead. When you’ve got 38 overly agressive drivers racing inches apart one will push the envelope to much and BAM the “Big One”
Don’t blame this on NASCAR, for one we’ve been racing at Talladega with the plate on for over 20 years, and we have had caution free plate races, when the DRIVERS learn to take their time and not go after the same real estate at once, it has happened 3 times since 1997.
Don’t blame this on the COT, because we had one race in 2007 with the COT at Talladega where everyone minded their p’s and q’s and everyone said it was BORING…the media called it BORING, the fans called it BORING, and oh yeah most of the DRIVERS called it BORING.
As for Edwards’ crash. WAH, WAH, WAH, my two year old niece doesn’t cry as much as you did. First of all Mr. Edwards you blocked Brad, which means you brought that crash upon yourself, no block, and no crash and a 2nd place finish. Instead YOU chose to block and YOU had to suffer the consequences of YOUR actions. As far as someone getting killed? Unless your car clears the catch fencing, I doubt that’ll happen. First off looking back in history you’ll see a crash similiar to yours in 1993, in the same spot, with eerily similiar results and the driver, just like you, walked away. If someone doesn’t know what I am talking about, then go to Youtube and type in Neil Bonnett 1993 DieHard 500 crash. Neil walked away from almost the same exact crash in a vastly less safe car.
As for those who want to change the racing or the race track. Hmmmm…..first off, the plates will NEVER come off the cars, and even if they do take them off they’ll reduce carberatour size which means you’ll still see pack racing. Change the track and you’ll see thousands of fans walk away from the sport. If you change something it’ll only be a few years before everyone adapts and we’re back to pack racing.
Bottom line is the DRIVERS, all 43 of them NEED TO USE THEIR HEADS, and when a day like Sunday happens, learn to SHUT YOUR MOUTH.
As for the 8 fans being injured, yeah they may sue, unfortunately that’s the kind of people we have in America now a days. But it hasn’t been the first time a wreck hurt fans, and the sport, and tracks have survived those previous incidents, I think they’ll survive this one. And on top of that, when was the last time a fan was hurt by debris from a car……..might be the 1997 Daytona 500 when Ernie Irvan’s hood cleared the catch fence on the back stretch during a wreck. So it’s been 12 years since that incident happened? I guess it’s safe to say they’re few and far between.
DRIVERS need to learn how to drive their cars, FANS need to choose a safe boring race, the MEDIA needs to learn from the writers of yester-year that sometimes when you think there is a problem there really isn’t, and you need to either write about something else or do something different. The DRIVERS ARE IN CONTROL, they want something to change, THEY NEED TO LEARN TO DO IT THEMSELVES, and quit being a bunch of cry-baby’s.
AND I LOVE Talladega, it has been my favorite track for 19 years now, and won’t change anytime soon unless they change the track.