Tony Stewart just killed a guy

Feeky Magee

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So Tony Stewart, 3x NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion and notorious dickhead, just ran over and killed a 20-year-old racer, Kevin Ward Jr., whilst Ward was angrily gesticulating at him on foot after a racing incident.

He seemed to gun the engine and tilt to the right before hitting Ward.

Old article about some of the controversies he's been in, last line is kind of chilling:

Tony Stewart was once again involved in controversy on Sunday and found himself invited to the "Oval Office" to speak with NASCAR officials after the race. This time he climbed in the window of Brian Vickers' car and grabbed him after the race at Sears Point Raceway.

There have been a long series of incidents where Tony Stewart let his temper get the best of him going all the way back to his 1999 rookie year when Tony tried to climb in Kenny Irwin's window under caution after an incident in Martinsville. Other incidents include post race run-ins with a number of drivers, a shoving incident in Daytona with Robby Gordon, multiple incidents with reporters... and the list goes on.

In fact, even during Tony's Championship winning season of 2002 Tony was involved in a few incidents on and off the track. These incidents lead to NASCAR forcing him to take anger management classes.

Fast forward to 2004 and it seems that the old Tony Stewart is back. After wrecking Brian Vickers during the race in Sonoma, Tony confronted Brian on pit road after the race, climbing in his window to get to him.

Vickers was confused saying "I've definitely never had anybody mad at me for hitting me. That just kind of baffled me."

This isn't the only problem that Tony has had this season. He bumped Scott Wimmer under caution at Bristol for a wreck that wasn't either of their faults. Stewart has blatantly caused accidents in Darlington and California this season and who knows what he was thinking when he charged backwards up pit road after the race in Talladega?

Tony Stewart is running on tilt in 2004. Maybe he thinks that his famous temper flare-ups in 2002 won him a Championship so he needs to get back to the "old Tony" in order to win another? Whatever the reasoning someone needs to sit him down and explain the limits of acceptable behavior to him. At the rate he is going in 2004, he is going to hurt someone.
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What the feck is the guy that was hit doing standing in the middle of the track and gesticulating at cars for?
 
NinjaFletch said:
What the feck is the guy that was hit doing standing in the middle of the track and gesticulating at cars for?
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Lost his head, though to be fair to him he probably didn't expect to be (allegedly) deliberately run over.
 
I'd imagine it'll be hard enough prove that it was deliberate. I haven't a clue how them cars operate but pressing the brakes at speed could cause a car to go all over the shop too especially if the surface was wet or greasy.
 
The Black Pearl said:
I'd imagine it'll be hard enough prove that it was deliberate. I haven't a clue how them cars operate but pressing the brakes at speed could cause a car to go all over the shop too especially if the surface was wet or greasy.
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It'll be hard alright, but listen to the sound right before the impact. Definitely seems to rev his engine.
 
I've removed the video, people can Google it if they want.
 
Just seen the video, holy shit. Why would this guy leave his car though, I understand he was pissed off and stuff but bloody hell.
 
Mind blowing how stupid it was to walk out into the middle of the track like that, but you definitely see the guy turn into him at the last minute.
 
Feeky Magee said:
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Wow, I was giving him the benefit of the doubt that it was an accident as from that video it's impossible to tell anything and then I heard he was incredibly upset about it when being interviewed by police...

...and now he's racing today. fecking hell, I doubt I could function for a month if I was driving a car that just killed a man.
 
Horrible thing to happen. He should at least be jailed for manslaughter if he doesn't get sent down for murder.

I don't know if he weaved to hit him though, it looked to me like the car went right after he hit the poor bloke, might've sent the car that way with the impact?
 
So he killed someone and he's free to go?

Even if it was an accident I wouldn't WANT to be driving my head would be all over the place.
 
Even if he didn't mean it I cannot believe e he is a racing again today? No remorse at all...Jesus Christ
 
How fecking stupid is the guy who got hit?
 
He should not even be allowed to race. There actually shouldn't be a race at all, ffs a driver of yours just died on track!!

Btw, those cars are ugly as hell.
 
Kinda off-topic but I'm not too well-versed on the inner-workings of NASCAR, can someone explain to me why Tony Stewart was racing in a sprint car race the night before a NASCAR race? From my understanding, sprint car races are a lower tier event with amateur drivers. It'd be like if somehow a Premier League footballer took part in a pub league the night before a Premier League match. Doesn't make any sense.
 
Man of Leisure said:
Kinda off-topic but I'm not too well-versed on the inner-workings of NASCAR, can someone explain to me why Tony Stewart was racing in a sprint car race the night before a NASCAR race? From my understanding, sprint car races are a lower tier event with amateur drivers. It'd be like if somehow a Premier League footballer took part in a pub league the night before a Premier League match. Doesn't make any sense.
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Lots of them dabble in all sorts of racing particularly in America. Like in F1 drivers tend to be under contract to not participate in other series unless its the offseason but in Nascar they just tend to do multiple things, often its just a side hobby more than anything serious.

Horrible incident though, they really should not be letting him race today.
 
It was just announced that he wont be racing todat.....as big of cnut Stewart can be at times tjere is no way he hit that kid on purpose. ...hard to tell from the vid but its possible he saw him at the last second and jumped on the gas trying to avoid the collision....track wasnt well lit in that section.
 
Mr Pigeon said:
Considering he's fecking dead I'd leave the insults for another time. For all we know he could have had a concussion.
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It's rednev. He's incapable of not being an insensitive bellend.
 
Watched the vid a few more times...looks to me that Stewart saw him at the moment and turned to the right but the back end of the car catches Ward.
 
Feeky Magee said:
Lost his head, though to be fair to him he probably didn't expect to be (allegedly) deliberately run over.
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Eh?

Totally idiotic action to exit the car. It's hard to adjust the car's trajectory in a split second at such speeds. What if he was hit by another unsuspecting third party driver? Again... totally idiotic. The family must be in the pits right now (no pun intended).
 
adexkola said:
Eh?

Totally idiotic action to exit the car. It's hard to adjust the car's trajectory in a split second at such speeds. What if he was hit by another unsuspecting third party driver? Again... totally idiotic. The family must be in the pits right now (no pun intended).
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I said he lost his head, I obviously wasn't saying it was smart. My point is that I doubt he expected to be (allegedly) deliberately run over. It wasn't like there was any near misses before Stewart hit him, he was in plain sight and there was easily enough room to get past him, I don't think he was in real danger before Stewart (allegedly) deliberately hit him.
 
I don't expect to get deliberately run over if I walk onto a major expressway either.

The incident should be investigated thoroughly for any chance the collision was deliberate, but that shouldn't detract from Ward's actions
 
Deliberately ran over him in my opinion. Suspect he will be jailed for a long time.
 
It was pitch black and Ward was on the track wearing a black suit and helmet, it is possible that he didn't see him until the last few seconds.
 
Just viewed the incident and the stewards/authorities are right to suggest that at this point there will be no criminal trial however his car should be impounded and the track should have been investigated afterward as thoroughly as a crime scene to check whether there is evidence of any type of unusual deviation in the path Tony Stewart took just before he hit the guy (kevin Ward JR.).

That evidence should then be looked at by a police specialist to see whether they concur with the findings. Tony Stewart in the meanwhile should not have been allowed to drive pending the outcome of a routine inquiry.

However that does not remove blame from Ward Jr. himself as he had no business going onto a track with live cars moving at high speeds as there was always high potential in that situation for injury or death to occur, sadly its been the later.

If I was however his next of kin and the situation was not investigated with clear evidence that the police had been allowed to view the evidence than I would launch my own legal action.

Sounds like a sad situation all around but it needs to be handled with care by the authorities.
 
It looks a bit dodgy, but I don't see how you can prove intent. I'd be surprised if he ever gets done for manslaughter, let alone murder.
 
Ward is just crazy walking into traffic. Only Stewart knows if he wanted to hit him so no charges.
 
I don't think it was deliberate, the twitch after the hit looks more like he was braking from speed which would cause a twitch like that and the victim was still walking into the track which was a dirt track as well. What the feck was he doing walking on to the track like he had to know he was putting his life at risk.
 
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