I think a suspension of the team will punish the sponsor and I don't believe that would be a good precident.
I think 200 points from the owner, 200 points, 2 races and $200,000 for Busch would send the message.
It does not matter who was at fault on the track, Busch made a huge and dangerous mistake.
beth
Okay, I am kinda leaning towards this one. I still feel that something needs to come down on Penske (sorry mrsmopar) because if not personally I don't feel that the owners are really gonna put a stop to this stuff. Has Roger Penske come out and apologized for what his driver did? Not that I have heard about yet. But in all seriousness, if there is no suspension at all I will lose all respect for NASCAR itself.
I'll be happy to reply once I see the replay. I had to work yesterday and only watched the first half of the race so far on my DVR. Give me another day to finish and you'll hear from me!
I also didn't see it. I saw a blurb on sports during the news but........
Is is on youtube???
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I think that a 2 year probation, loss of 100 driver and 50 owners points and a 2 race suspension plus a large monitery fine would be good. I also think Roger should be looking at replacing Kurt permanantly
That had to be one of the most senseless acts I have ever seen in all my years of watching NASCAR.
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I think that a 2 year probation, loss of 100 driver and 50 owners points and a 2 race suspension plus a large monitery fine would be good. I also think Roger should be looking at replacing Kurt permanantly
That had to be one of the most senseless acts I have ever seen in all my years of watching NASCAR.
I like the probation idea too! Had the pit crew member from the 20 not been paying attention he wouldn't be walking under his own power today, and that's if he were lucky.
Honestly for a guy to freak out that much when he drove up into another car... it just doesn't work in the real world. If anyone should have been mad it was Tony for being cut off and forced into the wall. He's chasing a championship too..and that means racing for positions every week, racing hard...not giving up a position to an idiot that isn't faster than him.
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By Duane Cross, NASCAR.COM
June 5, 2007
04:24 PM EDT
So, NASCAR, is safety a priority? If so, Kurt Busch should be suspended for a minimum of two races. His pit-road hissy fit (watch video) must be dealt with swiftly and leave no room for misinterpretation.
And a six-digit fine, the loss of owner and driver points and being placed on super-secret double probation citing Section 12-4-A (actions detrimental to stock car racing) of the series rule book ain't gonna to cut it.
These aren't the days of frontier justice; Nextel Cup is the pinnacle of stock-car racing. The days of Cale vs. Bobby are long gone, though I readily support the side that says drivers' passion cannot be neutered. It's a fine line -- and one that Busch obviously cannot walk.
Drivers shouldn't let their emotions put others in harm's way. To be blunt, Busch was borderline negligent: Failure to exercise the degree of care considered reasonable under the circumstances, resulting in an unintended injury to another party.
Busch and Tony Stewart have a history of denting each other's sheet metal, but ramming the other's car on pit road -- with crew members over the wall, no less -- is inexcusable. Drivers who retaliated on the track have been parked for potentially far less dangerous situations.
And neither driver gave an inch in their post-race comments:
Lip service, so says Wikipedia, is an idiom used to describe the situation in which someone complies with a certain obligation, or expectation, to the minimum possible extent. People paying lip service usually do so because they have no intention to comply any more than they are forced to, if at all.
Kurt's bush-league antics are reason enough for NASCAR to pin back his ears. But if NASCAR doesn't drop the hammer on Busch, its argument for safety being a driving force will be nothing more than lip service.
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I think a suspension of the team will punish the sponsor and I don't believe that would be a good precident.
I think 200 points from the owner, 200 points, 2 races and $200,000 for Busch would send the message.
It does not matter who was at fault on the track, Busch made a huge and dangerous mistake.
beth
I agree with this one... No driver wants to loose that many points and not be able to race for something he did on the track!!! Hmmm reminds me of when Roush suspended him!!!
I say suspend him but an even better option would make everytime he and stewert pit for the rest of their careers he has to get out and do Stewarts pit stop for the jack man or whoever he almost ran over
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I figured out the only way that I would be happy without a multiple race suspension. And that is if NASCAR docks Busch enough points that he has to look up to see Mike Waltrip
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