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His movements on the track indidcate to me that adrenaline was the main substance moving him. He looked plenty agile. The other driver Kinney said: 'I saw him just fine. No one else hit him.' Stewart gunned his engine and targeted the kid. Unmistakeable. I don't need no gawddammed racing experience to see that. This did not happen at full out racing speed. I am a former professional driver. I drove nearly one million miles on the streets of Seattle, Oakland, San Francisco, and Marin county often with passengers in the car. The conditions ran the range: dry, wet, dark, snowy. This was higher speed than the 35 at which Stewart struck Ward. And often in heavy traffick. My only chargeable accident was a 5 mph rear ender in freeway stop and go. Looked aside at the wrong moment. Never even in a serious accident that wasn't my fault. And never with passengers aboard. This macho crap about 'you don't understand racing' is tiresome and seriously so. I'm not some virgin in the world. I saw what Stewart did. |
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We can see what his car did. He changed course to go upfield towards Ward. Careful examination of the slo-mo reveals that. You can see his car fishtailing as he approaches Ward. Clearly he goosed the throttle. I suspect he was trying to intimidate him. Not smart.
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I don't believe racing will die either way. Not cutting into my paycheck so I don't care. What is you next theory? I did. Several times. I still didn't see where it showed his thoughts. You have been conjuring up all kinds of excuses for Ward. |
OK, explain the physics if the wing of a dirt track car has the weight of a human being hanging on it? Car going as said 30 mph.
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Again, what's your point? Who cares if Stewart and others have done it? Lots of people have driven drunk. Doesn't make it a good idea. Stupid is stupid. Stupid deserves what it gets. And you can prove that he intended to hit Ward? What new theory? Last time it was because some young punk beat him (a has been). Good thing there is you to keep us on the straight and narrow. What a thankless job, Larry. |
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Have you forwarded it to the DA? I'll bet he will take you seriously when he sees the calculations and proof you have. Again, I am not an accident investigator. |
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Good thing because I suspect you don't have any. The other drive is more credible than you will ever be. My father has been flying in and out of countries for over 40 years. He has been to places I have never heard of and has logged more airline miles than I know of. I wouldn't call him an expert to investigate a crash. You were a Taxi Driver. No offense but that doesn't strike me as an accident investigator. We aren't talking Taxi driving here. I might consider asking for your help if I wanted to learn how to drive a Taxi but calling yourself an accident investigator? Seriously? I suppose you would call a nurse in a hospital a neuro surgeon too? |
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He is already going upfield before he strikes Ward. Look at the slo mo. He is moving away from the pole quite a bit just in the two or so lengths while he is in the frame. He was close to the pole just before entering the frame so clearly he veered towards Ward. You can hear the gunning of the engine in the real time and you can very clearly see his front wheels turn to the right and back to the left quickly. The car obeys those wheel commands. It is so obvious. Stewart aimed his car at that boy whether he meant to hit him or not. |
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I weep for our species. You are an embarrassment to thinking people. Your brain works like a jerking knee. |
Speaking of the DA:
Here is an account of what the DA presented to the GJ: Quote:
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"into a hot track in the middle of other cars that still were racing" Yellow flag speeds of about 35 to 40 mph are way less than racing speeds. Ward knew the yellow flag would be in effect until his car was taken off the track. One can see the firetruck looking thing show up seconds after he was hit. His behavior was dumb but not suicdically dumb as running into the track during a hot track when racing was going on would be. The most egregious example of poor thinking was shown here: "The videos did not demonstrate any aberrational driving by Tony Stewart until the point of impact with Kevin Ward, at which point his vehicle veered to the right up the track as a result of the collision. Prior to that, his course was pretty straight." - Tantillo The DA has demonstrated that he has approximately no understanding of physics or any ability to examine evidence of this sort. No "aberrational driving," his "course was straight?" If by straight he means that Stewart was following the curve of the track down in the sweet spot, following behing #45, the video evidence indicates he was doing that until shortly before he came into the frame. At that point he is still quite close to the pole (the inside edge of the track) but is clearly moving away from it. In the car length or two before he reaches Ward and Ward disappears from view, he clearly has traveled a good bit upfield. Contrast to #45 and the difference is what you call obivous. I can tell he must have been near the pole before he enters the frame because the angle he's on in the frame would have had him in the wall if begun sooner or in the middle of the track. You can see Ward begin to backpedal about the time Stewart would have veered towards him. I've already described how the fishtailing indicates that he gunned the engine and how the movements of the car while Ward is hanging onto it indicate that Ward's weight had a neglible effect. There is no new evidence of any kind that can over-rule the clear fact that Stewart's driving was, in fact, aberrational. If the DA is clueless enough not to see it, one wonders what sort of guidance he gave the GJ. It is really, really hard to figure how people can be this wrong. Several possibilities come to mind. 1. He's an idiot. 2. He's a hardcore NASCAR fan or has family who is and they tainted his thinking with repitition of the standard BS lines about can't see to the right, too dark, etc. 3. He thinks pot is evil, dirty, sinful. 4. Or he's a corrupt som-***** who knows that a Tony Stewart trial would be a headache and ultimate black eye for his community. Whatever, the DA is utterly wrong and the GJ also, whether he influenced them or not. Gentlepersons of the Bimmerfest informal investigative unit: if you can't find the stones to tell me why I'm wrong here I'm going to lose respect for you. The hooting mockery chorus doesn't get it done, mucho muy perdonnes. Tantillo: http://s20.postimg.org/m24v7gpr1/Tantillo.jpg http://s20.postimg.org/d5u33iz4t/Tantillo_2.jpg |
The key phrase from the grand jury follows: the grand jury has determined there is no basis to charge Tony Stewart with any crimes.
They do not say that Tony did nothing at all wrong. They simply say that there was no crime they could charge him with. They are not mind readers either. |
I saw both videos. I saw the first one the day after on a friends smart phone. The video was played 3-4 times. The angle to me blocked any view of Wards actions behind the car. I do think TS drive a bit higher line than the proceeding car, but not way up the race track. I did hear the car rev, but from my view/perspective, Ward was behind the car at that time.
One of ESPN's stories one of the commenters posted the video (Slo-mo) of the second video. His statement was Ward grabbed the wing of TS car. I'm like what!!. I watched the video. I did not see Ward back off. He made a bee line to TS car. Jumped over the front wheel, grabbed the wing, was torqued into a cartwheel. Yes, I know how much HP these cars have. Know people who own, raced and work on them. I do work in the auto industry. Some of the parts I have made or had a hand in the making of have run around Indy 500. Not an expert though. So, I will make my own judgement. |
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In thinking of top race drivers there are many who make a very excellent impression of being polite gentlemen. I think though if you scratch the surface of Al Unser senior, or Rick mears or Johnny Rutherford you will find a very tough individual who will take nothing from anybody when push comes to shove. Does Tony act like a dick? Sometimes, but that sort of bad boy image is encouraged by Nascar. |
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