re: So Tony Stewart may have just killed a guy

Aw.... Didn't proofread. Good catch!

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Off-topic and grossly insensitive and inappropriate, but at last we now know the root source of the lose/loose idiocy.

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ESPN showed that same tweet earlier today, but they fixed his grammar.

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Usually when you kill people, you become a murder.

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How does that work, exactly?

No way this goes criminal. Probably a case there for negligence but that too wouldn't be an easy conviction.

Civil settlement for sure. Pay it and make the story go away as quickly as possible.

Sorry but I don't blame TS even a little bit for this. You don't leave your car on a racetrack. All of your protection is in that car. If you are stupid enough to leave your car you don't walk toward other racecars that are zooming by and try to play chicken and talk mess to them. The way he was on that track between himself and his car he left less than half the track that was safe to drive on while on a curve on a dirt track.

I know it is difficult for his family but the guy was a complete idiot and had no business racing. IMO any race driver that gets out of his car during a race (outside of a fire or other dangerous situation) should be banned from the sport. They spend all this money on making the cars as safe as possible and protecting the drivers but if you get out of the car so you can point your finger at other drivers you have no business in that sport. If the sport will tolerate that behavior then it is also to blame.

I'm sure TS will settle with the guys family but honestly he shouldn't have to and I seriously doubt any jury would find for the defendant.

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You don't leave your car on a racetrack.

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Stewart has been known to get out of his car and he once threw his helmet at Matt Kenseth's windshield on the track. I blame him for establishing the current bravado culture in NASCAR.

I agree that this shite has to end. Banning would be appropriate for what has now proven to be a potentially deadly act. I doubt that anyone would do it for a while but over time I can see it coming back because the customers love it.

Whether it is Stewart or anyone that gets out of their car they should be banned or severely punished to the point where they don't ever think of doing it again. My comments to TS are strictly to this event.

I watched the video again and when he hits the guy it was insane how far down the track he had gone and made the space the drivers had to work with far too small. This isn't baseball where you can run out on the field and argue with an umpire, the umpire isn't driving a few thousand pounds of metal at high speed.

There is just no excuse for leaving your car on a race track outside of a fire or personal safety issue. Period. You can't stop stupid people from being stupid but you can damn sure penalize the behavior.

The moment that guy left his car to yell at TS he took his life in his own hands. As to whether or not TS could have missed him or not that is something between him and God at this point.

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you can clearly hear Tony's engine rev up as he's approaching

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Which still is supported by the theory that he is focused on throwing dirt on his car and not realizing the idiot actually jumped out of the car and is on th dark track.

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that is something between him and God at this point.

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I agree. It'll be interesting to see how this incident affects Stewart going forward. Will it change his overly-aggressive behavior on the track?

I don't think there's enough evidence to say that Stewart deliberately hit him. Did he mean to buzz Ward and "teach him a lesson?" I can see that based on Stewart's past behavior.