Tony Stewart Strikes driver during race after he gets out of car

Finally unbanned. It's basically negligence on both sides. Ward should've known better than to come up on the outside of a sprint car on a dirt track. All them ***** do is slide and kick out. Tony also should've known better than to hit the throttle like that knowing he's in a sprint car!!

He was just trying to spook the kid but it took an ugly turn. I don't think he should go to jail. I chalk it up as racers being racers. I grew up watching my dad drag race and I also spent time at many small tracks around the south. This is the culture

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Dudes is just wild like that
 
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Lol were going to the he couodnt see defense again? Guess he didnt see the other half dozen cars breaking and gettin inside either. guess he thought they werevtryna give him the W and the car against the wall was decoration. He didnt like some young punk calling him out and gunned it at him plain and simple. Otherwise show me footage of tonys car at 9k rpms in a corner where he doesnt murder someone. Idc idc. He killed that kid. Hope he never sleeps again
 
Nelson999 said:
Yall gotta calm down with the "obviously it was intentional" thing.  I grew up around this type of racing as my dad raced dirt track cars and his good friend raced sprint cars. i also have a buddy that still does.  The wing comes down on the right side and blocks most of the view out of the right side of the car. It's very possible he couldn't really see him. Also, there is no way Stewart would have even seen the guy crash, so when he came back around, he had no idea what was going on, no idea the guy had crashed and was pissed off at him. 

It is also crazy to assume that Stewart would just purposely run over a guy on a damn racetrack in front of fans and cameras and throw away his life and career

Finally, to those saying "You can hear him hit the gas, he was obviously trying to hit him". The easiest and fastest way to make these cars turn left, is to hit to gas. He was probably just trying to get down to the bottom of the track, away from the kid.


Very sad though. RIP to Kevin Ward
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Right, and I guess his pit crew/race team wouldn't have been telling him what happened or that dude was on the track in his headset either right? :\
 
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intentional or not, I don't see how you can let someone who killed another driver race for NASCAR again. Too much ambiguity to say he's completely innocent imo
 
JEWSEEJAY said:
Lol were going to the he couodnt see defense again? Guess he didnt see the other half dozen cars breaking and gettin inside either. guess he thought they werevtryna give him the W and the car against the wall was decoration. He didnt like some young punk calling him out and gunned it at him plain and simple. Otherwise show me footage of tonys car at 9k rpms in a corner where he doesnt murder someone. Idc idc. He killed that kid. Hope he never sleeps again
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A few ppl suggest that it's possible he didn't see him is crazy, but you're flat out saying Tony murdered him. Ok.
 
Yeah on the limited evidence at this point and one grainy video I'm not ready to give someone the label of murderer. Seems like an overreaction at this point. I'm sure the investigation will review pit conversations, other videos, interviews with drivers, spectators, etc and a clearer understanding will emerge (either good or bad)
 
The fact that this isn't a murder investigation is beyond me. There was no point where this looked like an accident. Plus, fresh off an argument, there's motive. Even if they bump it down to some form of manslaughter, dude has to do some time. This can't be a slap on the wrist, dude completely altered the man's family. Foul man.
 
ISU 42 said:
A few ppl suggest that it's possible he didn't see him is crazy, but you're flat out saying Tony murdered him. Ok.
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bruh... He caused the contact that made the victims car crash... Then the caution comes out... He does a full lap under caution and then accelerates when he sees...or doesnt see dude.

Why wws he on the gas? Why wasnt he inside?
 
JEWSEEJAY said:
bruh... He caused the contact that made the victims car crash... Then the caution comes out... He does a full lap under caution and then accelerates when he sees...or doesnt see dude.

Why wws he on the gas? Why wasnt he inside?
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It doesn't look like they actually made contact on the initial wreck.  Ward ran out of room and clipped the fence.  

I don't know if Tony saw him or not.  I am merely suggesting that it could be a possibility.  

I'm not a racer so I'm not going to pretend why he hit the gas.  

As far as your last question.  Watch the last three cars ahead of Tony's car.  One went high (right by Ward and his car), one went low, and the car directly ahead of Tony was in the middle of the track and swerved down low to miss him.  How much time did Tony have to react when he may have saw him?  

But continue making crazy assumptions that someone was intentionally ran over.

This thread is pretty much par for the course for NT.  Make crazy judgments before the facts come out and lose all common sense.  Whether it's the Steve McNair case, Chris Dorner, or the Boston Marathon NT comes up with crazy theories of what happened or doesn't wait until actual facts come out.   
 
I just saw this... my opinion is that Tony was out to scare him. Should he have been out there out of his car? No. But for it to be a caution and Tony leaves the pack to go near the other driver is clear to me Tony knew what he was doing. And that's to scare him not hit him. Very sad situation.
 
I can't speak for American racing (though I assume the practice is the same), but in other racing categories, after a crash it's standard procedure to get out of the car... and for good reason... the driver may be injured or the car might be in danger of catching fire and whatnot.  Of course, the marshals have to move the car so they can continue the race. It'd be pretty dangerous to move the car with the driver still inside it and on-coming traffic.  The bottom line is, if you can get out of the car, you do it.  

Having said that, when you get of the car, the normal practice would be to leave the track, not run back on to the racing line.  
 
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Thank you for your informed and sensible post.  Like I mentioned before, it's just way too early to make any assumptions on what really happened.  We're basing all of this on 1 shaky fan-footage!  

Until the investigation is complete, I think we should all refrain from making any sort of judgement.  
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You could at least use your own understanding and analysis about what transpired, as well as READ the alleged reports by 'eye witnesses'.  There's no way out of it.  The motives and intentions were just there, though it's tough to place it all on Stewart.

Again, why did other cars seemingly avoid Ward, and Ward doing the same, but when it was Stewart's turn at the corner, he steered his car in that direction?  Even if it was unintentional as his defense will be, he killed the kid.
 
This is so crazy

I just assumed Stewart hit him by accident

But the talk about Tony trying to spook him could be true

This probably will go to court and take forever to sort out
 
I don't understand people that refuse to watch the video of it. It's not like kid is getting decapitated....the view from the camera is so far away you don't really even get that great of a look at him getting tossed from under it.
 
Not everyone is comfortable watching someone lose their life. It's a personal preference and not a weird one IMO

It does however make it easier to comment on the situation if you did watch
 
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At best, Stewart is a classless crass individual. At worst, he is a cold-blooded murderer.

Ward was dumb but of course didn't deserve what happened. All around a tragic situation.
 
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Nelson999 said:
Yall gotta calm down with the "obviously it was intentional" thing.  I grew up around this type of racing as my dad raced dirt track cars and his good friend raced sprint cars. i also have a buddy that still does.  The wing comes down on the right side and blocks most of the view out of the right side of the car. It's very possible he couldn't really see him. Also, there is no way Stewart would have even seen the guy crash, so when he came back around, he had no idea what was going on, no idea the guy had crashed and was pissed off at him. 

It is also crazy to assume that Stewart would just purposely run over a guy on a damn racetrack in front of fans and cameras and throw away his life and career

Finally, to those saying "You can hear him hit the gas, he was obviously trying to hit him". The easiest and fastest way to make these cars turn left, is to hit to gas. He was probably just trying to get down to the bottom of the track, away from the kid.


Very sad though. RIP to Kevin Ward
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Right, and I guess his pit crew/race team wouldn't have been telling him what happened or that dude was on the track in his headset either right?
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Lol bro, this isn't nascar. They don't have that **** in Sprint Car racing
 
JEWSEEJAY said:
bruh... He caused the contact that made the victims car crash... Then the caution comes out... He does a full lap under caution and then accelerates when he sees...or doesnt see dude.

Why wws he on the gas? Why wasnt he inside?
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1) the cars did NOT make contact when Kevin Ward crashed. Watch the video closely. Ward just got up into the loose dirt and lost control. There was really no way for Tony to know the dude even crashed

2) There is no proof that Stewart hit the gas, you can't even see his car in the picture when you hear a car hit the gas. it could have been any car on the track.

    - And, let's say it was Stewarts car, the fastest way to turn a sprint car left, is to hit the gas real quick, so it could be said that he was trying to avoid him
 
Or he is just providing some insight on a sport and culture that is foreign to many of us. I appreciate the view point and it makes for a well rounded discussion
 
he hit the gas trying to spook the kid.....there was no ill intent 

racers being racers 
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