Remember the guy Tony Stewart killed on the last year?

[dafischer]

Just saw this today...

Report: Kevin Ward Jr. smoked marijuana within hours of final race | Autoweek

[speeder]

And?

[Amail]

Originally Posted by dafischer

Just saw this today...

Report: Kevin Ward Jr. smoked marijuana within hours of final race | Autoweek

That was widely publicized last year, you just never saw it. It's not news.

[dafischer]

My bad...

[HardDrive]

News to me.

[speeder]

He probably had some bacon fat and orange juice in him as well, about the same relevance to how he died.

[sammyg2]

IIRC At the time there were tony stewart lynch mobs all over the place.

The fact that this guy was stoned means IMO he had no business being a race car driver or being in a race car or being on a race track and I have a hard time dismissing that as at least a partially contributing cause.

Bacon fat not withstanding.

[Amail]

Originally Posted by dafischer

My bad...

I hope I didn't come off sounding condescending - it wasn't meant that way.

[GH85Carrera]

So a man gets stoned and then puts on a BLACK racing suit and gets into a race AT NIGHT and stands in FRONT of a fast moving RACE car in a poorly lighted area and gets run over but it is is not his own fault but the fault of the driver he stood in front of.

Go it.

[EMJ]

Watch the video. That pig Stewart tried to scare the kid and miscalculated. Sure, he shouldn't have been on the track but two cars in front of Stewart missed the kid. Stewart has been up to his old tricks since in the race car and hasn't learned a thing.

[javadog]

I'm not sure I agree that Stewart was at fault. I know the internet armchair judges are seldom wrong about anything, but he was cleared by people that investigated the incident firsthand. The suit will go forward, and he will pay some money, because that's how our ****ty legal system works.

The kid was stupid for getting out of the car. No reason to, and many reasons not to.

JR

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by EMJ

Watch the video. That pig Stewart tried to scare the kid and miscalculated. Sure, he shouldn't have been on the track but two cars in front of Stewart missed the kid. Stewart has been up to his old tricks since in the race car and hasn't learned a thing.

If you read the report in the first post is says two independent investigators both came to the same conclusion. Steward had just one second from the time he saw him to impact. He did not swerve until after impact.

[EMJ]

Yeah, I read it. But Stewart's hotheaded persona preceded this event, and has succeeded it. What occurred fits right in line with Stewart "teaching the punk a lesson." I've seen nothing since that shows Stewart has learned anything. There have in fact been a few incidences since of Stewart in on track and pit road rages where sheet metal got tore up by his car. I believe Stewart rammed a car on pit road in a fit of rage after a race just a month or two after the death.

[cashflyer]

Remember the guy Tony Stewart killed last year?

Not really... Isn't his 15 minutes up?

[flipper35]

Originally Posted by EMJ

Yeah, I read it. But Stewart's hotheaded persona preceded this event, and has succeeded it. What occurred fits right in line with Stewart "teaching the punk a lesson." I've seen nothing since that shows Stewart has learned anything. There have in fact been a few incidences since of Stewart in on track and pit road rages where sheet metal got tore up by his car. I believe Stewart rammed a car on pit road in a fit of rage after a race just a month or two after the death.

You sure that wasn't when Keselowski hit him and knocked him into the other car?

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by EMJ

Yeah, I read it. But Stewart's hotheaded persona preceded this event, and has succeeded it. What occurred fits right in line with Stewart "teaching the punk a lesson." I've seen nothing since that shows Stewart has learned anything. There have in fact been a few incidences since of Stewart in on track and pit road rages where sheet metal got tore up by his car. I believe Stewart rammed a car on pit road in a fit of rage after a race just a month or two after the death.

That my indicate Stewart is an a-hole but it's a far stretch from homicide.

[Racerbvd]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

If you read the report in the first post is says two independent investigators both came to the same conclusion. Steward had just one second from the time he saw him to impact. He did not swerve until after impact.

Just like driving down the highway, there is a "Road-Gator" in the road, 1st two cars miss it because the 1st sees it it time, the 2nd follows the lead figuring something is in the road, the 3rd car nails it because he didn't know why the other two swerved at the last minute.

[EMJ]

Originally Posted by flipper35

You sure that wasn't when Keselowski hit him and knocked him into the other car?

That's correct. BK slammed Stewart on pit road and Stewart retaliated by backing up and slamming into BK's car. This occurred just two months after the fatal accident.

NASCAR fines Brad Keselowski and Tony Stewart for postrace conduct

[EMJ]

Originally Posted by Racerbvd

Just like driving down the highway, there is a "Road-Gator" in the road, 1st two cars miss it because the 1st sees it it time, the 2nd follows the lead figuring something is in the road, the 3rd car nails it because he didn't know why the other two swerved at the last minute.

Video shows Stewart going up towards the kid where others maneuvered away. Theory is he wanted to spray mud on the kid to "teach him a lesson."

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by EMJ

Video shows Stewart going up towards the kid where others maneuvered away. Theory is he wanted to spray mud on the kid to "teach him a lesson."

No it does not!

Read the report on the first post. Two different professionals each concluded Stewart did not swerve.