Does it matter?
NASCAR usually works something like this:
Driver X runs into Driver Y.
Driver Y gets mad and rightly so.
Driver X pleads his case with the fans and the media.
And sometime between one Sunday and the next, Driver X calls Driver Y, apologizes and everything's cool.
Not so with Jeff Gordon and Matt Kenseth, apparently, at least not yet. As of Wednesday, three days after using his bumper to move the No. 17 out of his way, Gordon hasn't yet talked to Kenseth. (AP story is here; Scene Daily version is here. It seems to be more of a matter of timing rather than any lingering anger.
So here's my question: Does it matter if Gordon extends some sort of olive branch to Kenseth? What if Gordon had said, "Matt Kenseth can go take a long drive off a short track"?
Better yet, should he?
I'm leaning toward no because NASCAR really needs a good feud about now. Convince me otherwise in the comments.
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You won't get no convincin' out of me.
The whole thing has been blown way out of proportion. Check the tapes, neither car had a scratch on them. If they touched at all it was so slight it wouldn't have brusied an egg.
Both of them need to leave it lay, shut their yaps, quit feedin' the trolls... er I mean reporters, and get on with the season.
Posted on July 13, 2006 11:46 AM
Of course Jeff won't discuss the matter face to face with Matt now. The incident is over and he ain't got his helmet on.
Posted on July 13, 2006 1:23 PM