Back in the day, race car drivers would be throwing punches at each other on the infield after an accident and nobody would blink at it. Today, times are completely different and when somebody says something that people may take offense too, the entire nation overreacts. We have now recently had incidents involving Jeff Burton and Kyle Busch along with another incident involving Joey Logano and Kevin Harvick. These are nothing more then bitch sessions from drivers who really are acting like little children.
In the case of Jeff Burton, Kyle Busch did nothing wrong and again let me say NOTHING wrong. Kyle was racing for position and attempted to make it three wide and Jeff couldn’t hold his line on the high side and ended up wrecking. Then after the race was over decided to come up to Kyle yelling and screaming about how he shouldn’t have tried to make it three wide, are you kidding me? Jeff Burton is the king of conservative and has been for some time just like another older driver Mark Martin. The days of riding around and not trying to push the issue until the end are pretty much done, and maybe he should get out of the sport if he can’t handle it.
The Harvick-Logano incident involved another situation where the so called “unwritten rules” of NASCAR apply. Harvick according to racing experts was suppose to let up and let Joey have his position back as he was running on the high side. Kevin didn’t let up and Joey ended up spinning out and finishing outside of the top 10 instead of being in the top 10. After the race was over, poor little Joey drove his car next to Harvick’s and got out and attempted to go after Kevin, however, his entire crew was in front of him not letting Joey get to him. The funniest part of this whole thing was that Joey’s dad was instructing him to go after Harvick by pointing at Kevin. I always thought wives and girlfriends of drivers created drama in the pits but welcome to 2010 where parents are causing problems like they do in youth baseball leagues. Then Joey got on TV and ripped Harvick with the famous “We know who wears the driver suit in that family” line. I must admit that it was funny and it made national headlines and it was good for the sport.
In 2010 drivers don’t fight anymore like in the good old days to resolve things or get payback on the track, drivers have decided that acting like women is the best way to resolve the problems. Too bad it kind of reflects on the way society is as well, where drama is KING.
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