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Originally Posted by m1a1mg
I agree. NASCAR screws up by getting things slide until someone does something really stupid. The Bubba/Bowman thing could have been much worse.
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I was sitting here thinking.. How much worse could that really be?
that being said.. I will agree with you because it's not uncommon on the cool down lap, especially for the race winner, to be unhooking their belts and/or removing their helmet.. So.. Now, let's be honest.. that's still something of a long shot. I couldn't tell how far past the end of the race the contact was.. I don't really think there was enough time for that to have happened, but.. It could have.
That being said. The reaction there more should be that you can't unhook your belts or remove your helmet on the cool down lap. And.. If we're being honest here.. I think it was SVG a few weeks back that was doing burnouts while cars were still on track during the cool down lap.. Which.. THAT.. And the way it was done, I saw as a bigger concern than this.
whoever it was, it was on a road course. And he was doing burnouts with cars going by.. Certainly looked far more unsafe than running someone into a wall via side contact. I wouldn't say that if we were talking about a 'hook' into the wall, as we saw Bubba do to Larson at speed last year. THAT.. Certainly an issue.
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