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Posted By: Sprinter 79 on July 22 2013 at 01:10:24 PM
Your right, I must not attend very many races! (lmao). Entry into turn one at this track is pretty tight. Not only have I heard this personally from people who have been there, but I also see that someone here posted it on this thread. Cars going three wide at a track that is sufficiently wide enough for this to happen is more than acceptable. Knoxville is a huge track, so to use this as an example is weak. Three wide racing for the lead happens frequently, yes it does. However, I suspect that Tony knew that he should not have been where he was or he would not have apologized. For as much as I dislike him on a personal level, I respect him as a driver. If he apologized then I am sure that he knew that he should not have been there. He is not a decent enough guy on a personal level to have accepted the blame had it not been his fault. There are aspects that bench racers are going to see in a video that may not be so clear on track. There is a very good possibility that the guy on the bottom never saw Tony. That would be Tony's fault regardless of the circumstances. Not necessarily in a deliberate way, I am not saying that this was on purpose or Tony wrecked anyone deliberately, but he feels that he was in the wrong. I would agree here.
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So what do you consider a tight entry to turn #1. Burlington (I've seen 3 wide for the lead in turn #1 there too), Oskaloosa (seen 3 wide for the lead winged and non-winged), DesMoines (back when the WoO raced there durin the State Fair guys would go 3 wide and the track was so dusty you couldn't see 5 inches in front of your face).
So, the guy BESIDE Tony (he sure as he## wasn't in front of him) has no fault at all in this wreck (not the car on the outside, only Tony??). That's the same argument I hear Mike Moore make everytime he crashes, it's always the other guys fault, never his (ALL the cars have 2 pedals in them). It's as much the car on the inside, car on the outside, and Tony in the middle's fault (they all share the blame, therfore, it's just a racing accident). It's not like Tony intentionally put a wheel in a guy to flip them out of the park, where was he supposed to go? Stab on the brakes and have the car behind him jump his LR or RR and really go for a ride? Jerk the wheel to the left so he and the guy on the inside crashed hard on the guy on the outside drive away? Jerk the wheel to the right and crash himself on the guy on the outside into the fence?
It was a racing deal, my guess is Tony took the blame because it was gonna be put on him by the media and the fans anyway (everything is his fault according to all the message boards).
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