OK, I couldn’t wait with this post so I’ll post my regular race review tonight instead of now. I hope you don’t mind.
Initially I took the stance that the incident between Kyle Busch and Dale Jr was nothing more than a racing incident and I thought I was perfectly right, well I don’t think it went down that way anymore.
I now think there was more malice in Kyle Busch’s actions than I originally thought.
After watching several replays of the incident there is one angle that I find the most condemning. All of the other angles originally support my earlier notion of this being nothing more than a racing incident, but this other angle has me re-thinking this whole thing.
Watch the video, especially at the 1:30 mark, and tell me if you see what I see.
I know what it looks like. It looks like Kyle is turning his wheels to save his car and he accidentally gets into Jr, even DW during the broadcast thought that too. Heck, that’s what I thought. But I’m now favouring Larry Mac’s initial hesitation about the contact between Busch and Earnhardt - Busch did try to hit Jr. Maybe not at first, but when opportunity knocks …
Let me justify it now before you go off the deep-end on me and once you’ve read what I’ve had to say go back and watch the video again (especially at the 1:30 mark as noted above) and tell me I’m wrong.
Here is how I think the whole saga went;
- Kyle goes into the corner a little too hot, but oh well at least he is the car underneath - 8 tires hold better than 4 you know - he is going for the win after all. - Kyle then thinks, “Crap, I’m loosing it and I’m not up beside Dale Jr far enough for him to hold me down.” - Next Kyle thinks, “Whoa, I’m saving it! Great, but now I won’t catch Jr and win the race! Hmm … if I just move up a little bit more I’ll take him out of it too and it’ll look like an accident! If I can’t win he’s not winning either!”
Now look at the video. Surely Kyle saves that car by sliding up the track a bit and turning his wheels to the right, but if you watch the video he gets that car pretty straight and then turns right again taking Jr out of it too. I had to watch it several times to make sure I saw what I thought I saw and its there. I also watched a better recording too, the one off my digital recorder.
Now you are going to say, “How can all of that go through his mind in such a short time?” Well it can. Ask any driver and he’ll tell you that when you are travelling at 200 mph you start thinking at 200 mph. Think about all of the stuff that goes through your mind when you are driving down the interstate. It is possible.
It will take a very long time before I take Kyle Busch’s smug-butt side again let me tell you. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Not again Kyle, not again.
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