I doubt very many here watched the NHRA finals at Pomona this past weekend (motorized bowling) but there was lots of drama. Some of it was staged, some real.
A young man by the name of Cameron was running his top fuel dragster and even though he didn't make it into the playoffs, he was up against Steve Torrence.
Cameron runs a small budget self-funded car and can't afford to make many races but he's a so cal boy and this is his home race. His team is made up of volunteers, not pros like in steevie's pit.
He's also a really nice kid. I know him and I doubt he's ever had an enemy.
Torrence on the other hand has unlimited money from daddy's biddness. Whatever little steevie wants he gets. And yesterday all that money was gonna buy little steevie another championship, two in a row.
So they both line up at the starting line. Evidently Cameron took a little too long, and then deep-staged a little. Everything he did was legal, but steevie took exception.
Cameron is too small-time to do that to someone as big and important as steevie.
So steevie wins the race, and down at the other end Cameron shakes hands with his idol, the guy he's looked up to and wanted to be just like.
And little stevie punks out. He sucker punches Cameron with an open-hand shove to the face. Total low-class punk move.
On the way back to the pits, Cameron got a standing O and stevie got the middle finger and boos from thousands of fans.
I'll probably see if I can help Cameron at the winternationals assuming he raises the $$$$.
And after all the new friends he made, steevie better keep an eye on his valve stems
But in torrence's defense, he's still not as low-rent as Cruz Pedregon.