So Joe – What Happened to Good Hard Racing?

“I think at the last lap there was a lot of hard racing going on,” Joe Balash said. “There was some movement on the racetrack. It was a tough finish for a really great race.   We’ve chatted about this evening, yes. We don’t talk about any of those conversations (that we have) in the hauler.”

So Joe, what happened to there being a lot of hard racing?  Plain and simple, NASCAR made a call on Saturday night and pretty much said that there would be no penalty.  And then a review board decides to hand out a 60 point, $25000 penalty to Carl Edwards?  And gives the punk Brad Keselowski a probation that will last for the remainder of the season?  Yeah sounds fair doesn’t it?  I don’t think so, but if you are a fan of BK you probably do, or part of the ESPN, Fox Sports, or TNT crew. 

I listened to drivers Jeff Gordon and Kevin Harvick, then Dale Jarrett say this was over the line.  Kevin Harvick should know really well what over the line is, and Jeff Gordon should as well since he is on quite a few drivers hit lists this season after wrecking them.   Keselowski has shown he likes to rattle people’s cages and his has been rattled twice by one driver, and both times he couldn’t handle the heat inside the kitchen.  I think that there are still quite a few people that realize the facts in this situation. 

• 1 – Keselowski started this mess, and it didn’t start back at Talladega.  It started back at Memphis last year when Brad Keselowski wrecked Edwards and the No. 60 still came back to finish 6th at Memphis. 
• 2 – You rub fenders with another driver on the final lap of a race, you better expect to get hit back and sometimes there are major consequences when you do get tapped.
• 3 – NASCAR proved how biased they can be, they let Keselowski wreck anyone he pleases and get a sloppy five month probation. 

So Joe?  What really happened to that race on Saturday being Good Hard Racing?  I have listened to probably 100 Dale Earnhardt Sr., fans that sat and told me “You don’t compare what Sr did to Edwards, and when you are a seven time champ you can do what you want.”  Well I am to this point with any fan that thinks what Carl did was dirty on Saturday, and what Dale Earnhardt did on August 28, 1999 was not you are so out on a loop, you need to go into a mental institution.  Dale Earnhardt said in victory lane “I just wanted to rattle his cage.”  Referring to when he put the bumper to Terry Labonte down the FRONT STRETCH at Bristol.  No people not in the corner like everyone has griped about for these past four days, but on the straightaway and probably at the same high speed because at Bristol you carry speed.

It wasn’t the only time I have seen that, but people back then thought it was good hard racing.  Now it is dirty racing?  And this coming from fans that supported the Intimidator?  Well I am sorry but this makes NASCAR look bad when they tell these guy’s to ‘have at it.’  While your most legendary and liked driver was the dirtiest of them all.

NASCAR before you decide to make a rule, put your review board on it first.