Nascar Tempers

Did anybody else catch the NASCAR hot heads running in circles this past weekend at the flat track in Loudon? Robby Gordon will definately be fined $10,000 and docked 25 points for his use of "colorful" language when describing his friend, Michael Waltrip. NASCAR will also put him on probation for the rest of the year. I doubt they will park him for a race.

Kasey Kahne, however, maybe a different story. After he was wrecked by Kyle Busch, the driver of the Kellogg's Chevy, Kasey intentionally drove his Dodge into the front end of Kyle's car. That is the kind of behavior NASCAR has said it will not tolerate. NASCAR likes to send messages a little louder each time that they punish somone. For example, at Bristol a couple weeks ago, Tony Raines was parked for 5 laps for rough driving. Earlier in the race, a couple drivers were parked for 2 laps.

Kasey Kahne is one of NASCAR's "young guns", and he is pretty and very popular with the teenage girls. They have "only" docked him 25 points and fined him. I thought that NASCAR would have sat him out for a race, like they did with Kevin Harvick at Martinsville back in 2002. These boys drive around at > 150 MPH. Somebody is going to get hurt unless NASCAR does something. The ONLY way to get the driver's attention is to sit their butts in time out and take away their keys for a weekend.