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Q. Well I still have a bit of old school in me. I been watchin NASCAR long enough to be excited when I could hear "It's a beautiful day for a motorcar race." knowing that the race was about to start. In those days drivers handled rough driving themselves. It was a simple but effective code. If you hit me on purpose, you won't finish. It was really fairly simple. If a driver was particularly rough and a jerk, it was simple. Mr. Jerk, meet Mr. Wall. Something was practiced back then. Though they drove hard, they were professional. Rub yes, but hit anyone intentionally to make a pass and the next race you were shunned if you didn't make them mad enough to introduce you to Mr. Wall. NASCAR stayed out of it then. Fights happened. It wasn't that rare. In fact it was just part of the competitive juices that ran high back then. I remember a number of years ago, Rusty Wallace got into a modern fight and threw a water bottle at another competitor. The announcer commented that a fight was breaking out with a Rusty throwing a water bottle and that NASCAR was going to have to clean that up. I never will forget what the expert commentator said and wonder how many people know who Im talking about. He cautioned, "Don't clean it up too much." At that point he told some of the old school stories where fights involved tire tools and occasionally worse than that. Still largely NASCAR stayed out of it. Drivers handled their own problems. As cars became more aero dependant, passing became harder. Someone found that they could knock a fellow competitor out of the way and make the pass he could not make on his own. Yet with TV on at ever race a driver dealing with the situation got both public and bad for the sponsors, but NASCAR stayed out of it. Drivers had to as well leaving a few young kids that had top flight equipment handed to them right out of the box with the impression that it was both a good and accepted practice, and that nothing would happen to them if you did just that. Professionalism disappeared. Now if a driver can't rail in a hot shoe kid with a lead foot, (a function that drivers like Richard Petty used to do) then NASCAR has to. If you are going to suspend a driver for a fight in the pits, then you need to suspend a driver for rough driving on the track. With this history between the two, stepping in sooner would have stopped long this long ago. As far as whose fault at this race, the one contact I saw KB was passing JS and let his car drift up into JS when there was plenty of room. Instead he let it drift up into JS and it was the contact that helped KB make the pass. He didn't have to hit Jimmy to make that pass. If NASCAR stepped in with this type of driving, then the after race activities would have been prevented. Do I condone Jimmy's actions? No but I certainly understand them. In the old days KB would not have finished. If he had, one of the veterans would have "paid him a visit" and the problem would have been solved.Oh for the good old days.What do you know about Mr Js Driving School?

A. If NASCAR isn't going to allow drivers to police it themselves then yes. Its already been done before. The yellow line passes at Daytona an Dega are times when drivers get penalized over sometimes very questionable calls. Sometimes I agree with them. Sometimes I don't. One thing is for sure, when cars get down below that line usually there is a big mess to clean up. Rather have one or two ticked off drivers than a whole field of cars out of the race because one guy won't use his or her head. What I would be looking for is "INTENTIONAL" contact with another car as a dividing line. When both cars enter a corner side by side, you can usually see the full truth. The front end of one car does not turn or the back end breaks loose at another time, but clearly in those cases the intent was not to wreck the other car. That's racing. Id actually favor a video camera and audio feed be required in EVERY car out there. Then check the video. Does the car slip? Do you see the guys hands turn into the other car? That video camera alone might do more to stop it than anything. In F1 it caught Michael Schumacher a few years ago once passed by a championship rival turn directly into that rivals car in an attempt to take them both out of the race so he could keep the points lead. The in car video made it as plain as day to anyone that watched it. From then on Michael Schmacher may be a race car driver, but in my opinion he will never be a champion no matter how many world driving titles he wins.

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