People hate Kurt Busch
I'm a little surprised that NASCAR hasn't done something to Kurt Busch for nearly running over one of Tony Stewart's crew members Monday at Dover.
The editorial reaction has been pretty predictable: Sit him. There's not much to disagree with here.
Remember that NASCAR parked Kevin Harvick for one Cup race in 2002 for a road-rage incident at a truck race. I figured the two incidents were roughly the same and that NASCAR would tell Busch not to bother coming to Pocono this weekend.
Apparently NASCAR Nation feels one (or even two) races aren't enough. With the online poll just having cracked the 130K mark, 47 percent think Busch should be suspended either for five races or the rest of the season. Considering that (a) Busch didn't take out Junior, and (b) this isn't a poll about Jeff Gordon, that's well into the we-hate-your-guts territory.
Yeah, yeah, I know it's not scientific. And it's possible that Greg Zipadelli coded up a bot or two that keeps hitting the "rest of the season" button. What it suggests to me is that maybe Kurt Busch should go race something that most Americans don't care about.
Or maybe it suggests NASCAR needs a good villain, and he's just the guy to do it? What do you think?
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Well, the Bush brothers are arrogant enough that they would both fit in with F-1.
The "Captain" must have a little pull here to keep Kurt from being sent to the showers.
Posted on June 8, 2007 12:03 PM
At least the ghost of Bill Jr made him go to a backup this weekend.
Posted on June 8, 2007 6:11 PM