Nascars Road Rage

Here is a post I found from a blog About Nascar Road Rage I thought was Very Good.

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Tragedy at today's Talladega race has left 3 drivers dead and injured 3 others, with only 7 laps to go LeMoyne Crawford spun Sara Casey out, just as she was coming out of turn 4. It was reported that Crawford was heard to say on the radio "that will teach her to bump and run on me." Mired in a tangle of 15 other cars, Casey's car careened into Carl Edwards and the cars began to pile up. It appeared that Earnhardt Jr.'s car struck the car of Tony Stewart right behind the fuel filler spout causing it to explode, showering the whole pileup of cars in burning fuel. Killed in the pileup and fire were Dale EarnhardtJr., Tony Stewart, and Carl Edwards. The injured include Kasey Kane, Jeff Gordon, and Dale Jarrett. Ladies and gentlemen, Dale Jarrett was set to retire at the end of today's race.

Folks, This is a made-up story, but it could happen on any given Sunday because of road rage on the racetracks of our country. Road rage is not something that only happens on the L.A. freeways. Nascar must take steps today to force drivers to alter their thinking.

In my opinion, Nascar has to establish and publish some very extreme penalties for this type of action. The penalties have to be enforced equally across the board for all drivers who intentionally wreck or try to wreck another driver.

I feel that those penalties should include parking the car and the driver if the incident takes place during a race. If the incident takes place after the checkered flag the driver should be parked for the next week's race. In either case, the penalty should also include the forfeiting of the day's winnings and points. If a driver is involved in a second incident during one season, the penalty should be doubled and if there is a third incident involving the same driver , he should be suspended for 1 season (36 races). When a driver decides to throw caution and safety to the wind, they need to be slapped and slapped hard enough to get the driver or the owner's attention. These types of severe penalities will get the owner's attention even if it doesn't get the driver's and they (the owners) will step in and say, "enough is enough." By and far, Nascar has been extremely lucky in the small number of severe injuries and deaths that have taken place on the tracks of NASCAR and none of them, to my knowledge, have been caused by road rage. But something needs to be done before tragedy ensues. If not, NASCAR will have regrets and some drivers will live the rest of their life in torment. Because of one minutes' worth of childlike foolishness. That's all it takes.

THAT'S MY OPINION - WHAT'S YOURS

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