This week I am throwing out all the debris cautions, (thats another story) and commenting on the only "Incident" of the Atlanta race. With 96 laps to go, its seemed to me that good ol' Jack Roush called on the headhunter again. After viewing the replay about 10 times its my humble opinion that once again Mr. Biffle managed to get not only 1 but 2 Toyotas this week. From all appearances he moved up the track and into the 00, taking him out, and managing to knock the 83 into the wall as well. Poor Kasey got caught up in the mess as well.
There have only been four races this year, and Biffle has managed to hit Dave Reutimann in half of them. At what point does Nascar open its eyes and realize that Roush has taken his "WAR" with Toyota onto the race track. Or will Biffle have to serious injure another driver before someone steps up and says enough is enough. In reading Biffle's comments on the incident he placed the blame on the 00 saying that he was "right reared into the wall" and it was " maybe payback for California" For his part Reutimann said he was just following behind Vickers (83) on the high line. In my opinion it looked like Biffle came up the track, not the 00 moving down. Also Reutimann is a rookie with a new team and manufacturer, I think he just wants to finish a race in one piece, not payback anyone for an obvious punt two weeks ago.
Anyway thats just my opinion I could be wrong. BUT probably not!!
I think i am going to keep track of how many times a Roush car that is not in contention, takes out a Toyota for no apparent reason. This weekend was the first. Biffle, with no regard for David Reutiman, dumpd the 00 . It clearly looked intentional to me. I watched the replay on my dvr about 20 times, including the in car from the 00. The 00 took a very hard hit and Reutiman spent atleast 30 minutes in the infield care center. I can see these incidents taking place up front, or even for a top ten, but these guys were running back in the pack.
In hearing all of Roush's hypocritical hate rhetoric earlier in the season, i trruly believe that this incident was not a "racing incident". With 5 drivers I am sure he will always have an opportunity to have a back marker Roush car "fence" one of these hated toyotas.
Not only was this dangerous and costly for the 00, this incident also collected Ricky Rudd and Bobby Labonte. As the races pile up this season I will be keeping my own score card with regards to any incident that involve a Roush car and a toyota.
In fact i am going to log every incident this season. I post these so that we can all see with cars are a danger, not only to themselves but every other driver on the track.
Hello sports fans, this year i plan to write a daily sports blog. This will be an all sport, all level blog encompassing what is right and wrong in todays sports world. Mainly I chose this forum in a effort to recieve feedback from sports fans, who are hopefully an knowledgable as I think I am. Over the last year or so i have tuned in to a great many sports radio shows and found that they would rather let an ignorant inflammatory #### on the radio, instead of an intelligent sports fan. So this will be my forum for all things athletic. You may agree, or maybe not, please feel free to let me know either way.
I still play soccer and follow Nascar, College b-ball and f-ball, mlb, all soccer, nfl and some nba. I am a married father of one.