Chris A wrote:
I don't think Larson's move was dirty. But he pushed too hard and his mistake cost Busch the lead unfairly. There's no doubt in my mind that Busch dove into turn three fully intending to move Larson, but given how he lost the lead, I don't blame him.
This is literally what happened.
There's a difference between trying really hard to pass cleanly and making contact accidentally and realising the move was done and the only way to reclaim the win is to dump the guy in front.
But if Larson had got by cleanly and Kyle had still bumped him out (Hell, I wouldn't put it past him either) then we'd probably had some justification in being furious.
But since Larson initiated the contact, albiet accidentally, I guess he has no leg to stand on.
Very reminiscent of Daytona this year in that regard tho, "Move is done, I've lost. Oh well, around he goes"
So Earnheardt too.
But NASCAR is held to a different standard than any other motorsport.
Any other series, I'd be calling for DSQ and season bans. (Yes, Even BTCC
)NASCAR, all the fun of the fair eh?
NASCAR is built on this stuff, hell, NASCAR itself has been loading about 500 separate takes of the finish to their youtube feed in an attempt to capture the outrage (which is hurting their numbers compared to if they'd just uploaded one or 2 seperate videos with it all edited together, but whatever)
Of course, what's most important is not the incident itself, but what Dale JR thinks of the Incident
Hell, it couldn't have happened at a better time for NBC. Their first race in and they have some controversy to milk, AND they probably will add a million viewers onto their Daytona viewership as a result of all the buzz off that one moment.
AND it's Daytona, which will probably generate about 5 more of these over that race.
Win win.