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Posted By: hondo500 on August 21 2014 at 12:42:47 AM
Correct. After the incident, the phone call to #14 was either you choose to sit out while you are under investigation for your involvement that resulted in a death on a race track, or we suspend you. Which is it going to be? If a sanctioning body allows him to race in their event and anything goes wrong in that event, and then later on the investigation in to this incident goes bad, you then drag that sanctioning body into a liability situation. If #14 is found responsible, how could any sanctioning body take on that kind of liability? The longer that #14 chooses not defend himself, the more he allows the outside world to define him, so much so that if it ever goes to trial, he could end up losing in the court of public opinion. A likely jury would not be stacked with people that look on sprint car racing favorably. No, that jury could actually look at the sport as barbaric, if this is the kind of result we get. He needs to get out in front of the story and stop allowing the narrative to run wild. Right now his choice of silence speaks volumes. If he tells the truth, he risks incrimination. If he doesn't tell the truth, he risks perjury. Either choice invites more problems. Not a good position to be in, especially if you are #14.
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NASCAR would have ZERO liability, all teams and drivers are "independent contractors" not employees.
Tony's silence is exactly what is needed right now IMO (what good will it do if he talks?). By him talking it just gives the media that has no idea about racing (much less sprint car racing) a way to pull "soundbites" and make him look bad and take cerain snippets out of context for articles and such (which will later be used in a civil case against him and drag this entire situation back out into the public for the family of Kevin Ward, Jr. to have to go through all over again).
And do you know how Tony feels? It's impossible unless you are him.
I know I certainly don't (I'M NOT HIM, ONLY HE KNOWS HOW HE FEELS), I only know how I would feel (which would be "horrible") and I'm sure I'd be running scenario after scenario in my brain thinking "what if" (Actually I have been for about 4 weeks as my neighbor had a heart attack in his yard (I was outside mowing) and I never even saw him until his wife was outdoors later on after calling 911. If I had been paying closer attention while mowing could his life have been saved? If I'd gotten there even 5 minutes sooner to do CPR would he still be alive? Etc. Etc..)
If you have ever talked to a lawyer you'd know the WORST thing you can do is talk publicly. Every little snippet ever spoke (especially to the media) will be manipulated to make it sound as though you don't care (or worse) in court.
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