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July 30, 2013 at
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See on the MSN homepage sports news there was a story about Smoke flipping his sprinter 5 times up in Canada Monday night. The story made it sound like a miracle he was o.k Gotta love the mainstream media when it comes to dirt track racing don't ya !
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July 31, 2013 at
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Posted By: veteranracer on July 30 2013 at 06:57:22 PM
See on the MSN homepage sports news there was a story about Smoke flipping his sprinter 5 times up in Canada Monday night. The story made it sound like a miracle he was o.k Gotta love the mainstream media when it comes to dirt track racing don't ya !
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Although I did not see the MSN article I did see the crash...and ya, it was a nasty tumble. It is pretty remarkable he did not get hurt. Not sure if you have personally crashed a sprint car before, but it can be pretty violent and people have died in and been horribly maimed in these types of cars before. Don't get me wrong, I love the chaos of and spectacle of sprinters, but I hate to see the crashes and possible resulting injuries.
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July 31, 2013 at
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Posted By: veteranracer on July 30 2013 at 06:57:22 PM
See on the MSN homepage sports news there was a story about Smoke flipping his sprinter 5 times up in Canada Monday night. The story made it sound like a miracle he was o.k Gotta love the mainstream media when it comes to dirt track racing don't ya !
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Oh yeah, they just showed that on D/FW channel 5 news this morning. They questioned how wise his team owner could be for letting him do that and suggested he should be removed dirt track racing!
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July 31, 2013 at
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I noticed this as well. Seems since the Leffler incident the media is focusing on our "dangerous sport" a lot more now. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say that crash was a 6.5. It's not a national media level. I crashed harder than that plenty of times, but my name isn't Tony Stewart so it didn't even make a youtube highlight reel for thrills and spills
do it in the dirt
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July 31, 2013 at
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Posted By: meatbag on July 31 2013 at 07:06:32 AM
I noticed this as well. Seems since the Leffler incident the media is focusing on our "dangerous sport" a lot more now. On a scale of 1 to 10, I'd say that crash was a 6.5. It's not a national media level. I crashed harder than that plenty of times, but my name isn't Tony Stewart so it didn't even make a youtube highlight reel for thrills and spills
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Thats what I was getting at about the media coverage since Leffler's accident. In no way was I minimalizing the danger of Sprinters. ..iceracer46 , I drove Sprinters for 28 years in all divisions and believe me I have been on my head plenty of times unfortunantly.
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July 31, 2013 at
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The ESPN print story notated that he flipped after hitting debris on the track.......Maybe we need "Debris Cautions" now... :/
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July 31, 2013 at
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debris...I guess it'll be referred to as 'debris' if it a driver jumps the cushion and junks a car...unless of course what I read on Twitter Monday night was incorrect....nah, Twitter is a reliable source...right? 
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July 31, 2013 at
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Yeah I have definitely seen worse crashes (for some reason the Kim Mock wreck at Knoxville keeps popping in my head). But I have also seen crashes that are not even close to being this bad and having terrible driver results. The car did its part in this case and kept Smoke safe.
Real race cars don't have fenders...
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July 31, 2013 at
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oh great more excuses for drivers now, "debris". Sammy, what happened out there? "rghmgggh I hooked a peice of debris and it just flipped"
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July 31, 2013 at
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Looks to me like he tangled with the cushion. When they say that "his bosses may not want him to race dirt anymore" I think thats exactly one of the reasons he wanted to start his own team, so he wouldn't be told what he could and couldn't do. I know there are more owners than just him, but I have a feeling their not going to tell him what he's gonna do on his free time.
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July 31, 2013 at
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Posted By: Dryslick Willie on July 31 2013 at 06:45:11 AM
Oh yeah, they just showed that on D/FW channel 5 news this morning. They questioned how wise his team owner could be for letting him do that and suggested he should be removed dirt track racing!
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That's worth an e-mail to the station to do fact-checking first.
Maybe they'll get an exclusive interview with Tony before the next race @ TMS and ask him what his car owner thinks of all his extra-curricular racing activities and make themselves sound stupid on the air for everyone to notice, not just racefans...
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July 31, 2013 at
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it didn't look like debris . . . . didn't his RR catch a rut? You can see a chunk off the track shoot off behind him. Looks like it made the car turn right and jump the cush, tripping the car. Happens all the time . . . .
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July 31, 2013 at
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Posted By: Speedkills on July 31 2013 at 08:51:52 AM
Looks to me like he tangled with the cushion. When they say that "his bosses may not want him to race dirt anymore" I think thats exactly one of the reasons he wanted to start his own team, so he wouldn't be told what he could and couldn't do. I know there are more owners than just him, but I have a feeling their not going to tell him what he's gonna do on his free time.
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Yeah Im with you----he is the boss last I knew.....but then again it used to be a free country until ding bat got into the oval office.
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July 31, 2013 at
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This is good for the sport. There's no such thing as bad publicity.
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