re: So Tony Stewart ran over and killed another driver at a race last night

Severely disabled or dead seems most likely from what I saw

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WOW. Looks like Stewart tries to scare him a bit, the kid gets close and most of the other cars aren't going as fast as him. Stewart hits the throttle to throw a little dirt on him I guess and the guy gets caught up.

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If you watch the video on Deadspin and pause it at the 00:35 mark.........the rear of Stewart's car is not slipped out to the right like most of the articles are claiming. At least not after contact with the victim.

It's the opposite.

After impact, the nose of the car is clearly pointing to the right as the body is under the right rear tire.

If the car just rolled over the man, would this happen?

It appears like Stewart gunned it so hard when he hit him that right rear tire loses traction because it is spinning the victims body and throwing it backwards while the left rear tire still has traction on the track............resulting in the nose of the car turning sharply to the right.



Kid shouldn't have ran down track. But it definitely looks very much like Stewart road-raged out probably trying to scare him.


Worst part of the video to me are the sounds of the panicked crowd yelling that Tony ran him over. I'll be hearing that all day now. Very sad.