Reutimann in trouble with Nascar...

[dibbs7j]

It was all for danica and top 35. Tbr told blaney to park it so reut could stay out and catch him on laps down which would have given the 10 car one more spot and one more point. That would have kept the 10 in top 35. Reut was doing what his CAR OWNER/Crew cheif wanted him to do. The man is in a tuff spot due to this danica bull shizz so all you people hating on david sorry to break up your little hendrick 123 party but it was for your little princess and SHR. The man is taking a lot of shit just so DANICA MANIA can get a free spot on the grid. If jr. would gave won nothing would gave been said because nascar would have gotten whar they wanted.

[Winger]

David was called to the "Big Red Trailer" after today's race, for causing a needless caution with only a few laps to go.

Hey Jerry, I don't think the trailer is red any more. I just caught that. Guess it shows you I'm as old as you, cause I knew what you meant. LOL

[ALASKA54]

If the 24 and 48 had pitted, then about half of the ones on the lead lap wouldn't have and it would have been the same thing. Haven't heard from Mr. Nascar on this one. Has anyone called and checked to see if he's alright?

[92/84/86]

yeah o.j. the driver can make that call, dale jr said in his interview on sirrius radio, you're told when you are a rookie if there is something wrong with the car and you think it's unsafe YOU make the call on bringing the car in, thats from nascar. don't think jr would make that up...

[Osmosis Jones]

Wow.

At first I thought you were just trying to be humorous with the the whole "NASCAR drivers make their own decisions regardless of crew chiefs and owners" business......

Now I see you're really one of the flock, aren't you. (insert long, slow whistle sound)

Now I feel a little bad for my earlier post. Mainly because I didn't know you had already taken your drink of the purple koolaid and have been sitting with the rest of the group waiting on the starship ride to Planet France.

It's a trusting soul that you are to repeat the media spewage from Little E's radio show and then to back it up with, "I don't think Junior would make that up".

Really?

I'll bet he and his entire family have been Nationwide customers since Grandpa Ralph was a teenager, too.....I'll bet he used to gather Big Dale and the kids around the old oil heater and tell em' insurance stories til they fell asleep.

Ah....the good old days of wine and roses.


Makes me a little misty.

[HGFHTR]

it is amazing!

[92/84/86]

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Neither one of us are Nascar drivers so neither one of us can actually prove our statements. Having said that, he couldn't keep up minimum speed for many laps and was a danger to other drivers on a track where split second decisions are made 20 times per lap, the last thing you need is is a wounded car drifting high and low trying to stay out of everyone's way, bottom line, he should have pitted.

[rad dad 12]

things we do for women drivers wow really

[92/84/86]

can't go there,wife might be watching!

[Osmosis Jones]

Actually....

....I wish I could agree with you.

Nothing I'd like to see more than NASCAR make a triumphant return to honest-to-good, actual RACING....and not the boring, scripted, marketed for television imposter that it packages and sells today.

I feel pretty confident, if it were his choice, that David would have pulled off the track and removed any chance of him being the cause for anyone else's accident OR race-changing scenario. It's probably eating him up that people would think he did something like that on purpose. Because that's what happens to a guy with morals and a true love for a sport that he has grown up in and shared together with generations of his own family. He isn't sitting in a race car today because his daddy went out and bought him a "driver-development deal from one of the big names who have sold their souls to NASCAR. He didn't show up at East Bay when he was a teenager, driving around the pits in a jacked-up golf cart while 10 payroll employees (plus the local chassis shop/former racing champon/current "teacher" for hire) worked on his car.

Nope.

He "built" his racing career. He had help and support from his family but it wasn't in the form of a suitcase full of cash when he was 13 years old. It was in teaching and advising him on how to build, drive and conduct himself as an adult first, and a racer second. And then how to weld the two together.

That's why I imagine having to do things, like that embarassing situation at Martinsville, based on decisions generated by TV ratings and market shares is probably going to give him an ulcer.

He just wasn't assembled that way at the shop.



OJ on the box


BTW....if they run around Martinsville at about 19.5 seconds per lap......and if they have to make split-second decisions....then I'd say they're making at least 38-39 decisions per lap......just sayin'.......lol

[Frasson118]

Thanks OJ for backing my original opinion.... David wasn't raised, nor conducted himself, in the way it appeared on Sunday. It was the political strings being pulled, and David was elected to take the fall for all of it.

The system is eff-ed up badly, all this crap hurt the he'll out of a RACER, all to protect a marketing machine. Danica.

All of the trading of points, scripting certain drivers actions, and all the other shit that has been pulled, will ALL go to waste if she misses the field at Darlington. Far too much was invested in her for anyone to give a crap about Reutimanns career and reputation.

[MW68SS]

And that is all she is a MARKETING MACHINE. David deserves so much better and hopefully next year he will find it.

[dibbs7j]

....I wish I could agree with you.

Nothing I'd like to see more than NASCAR make a triumphant return to honest-to-good, actual RACING....and not the boring, scripted, marketed for television imposter that it packages and sells today.

I feel pretty confident, if it were his choice, that David would have pulled off the track and removed any chance of him being the cause for anyone else's accident OR race-changing scenario. It's probably eating him up that people would think he did something like that on purpose. Because that's what happens to a guy with morals and a true love for a sport that he has grown up in and shared together with generations of his own family. He isn't sitting in a race car today because his daddy went out and bought him a "driver-development deal from one of the big names who have sold their souls to NASCAR. He didn't show up at East Bay when he was a teenager, driving around the pits in a jacked-up golf cart while 10 payroll employees (plus the local chassis shop/former racing champon/current "teacher" for hire) worked on his car.

Nope.

He "built" his racing career. He had help and support from his family but it wasn't in the form of a suitcase full of cash when he was 13 years old. It was in teaching and advising him on how to build, drive and conduct himself as an adult first, and a racer second. And then how to weld the two together.

That's why I imagine having to do things, like that embarassing situation at Martinsville, based on decisions generated by TV ratings and market shares is probably going to give him an ulcer.

He just wasn't assembled that way at the shop.



OJ on the box


BTW....if they run around Martinsville at about 19.5 seconds per lap......and if they have to make split-second decisions....then I'd say they're making at least 38-39 decisions per lap......just sayin'.......lol

VERY WELL SAID!!!!!!!!! HE IS IN A BAD SPOT WITH THIS DEAL.

[Winger]

I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. Neither one of us are Nascar drivers so neither one of us can actually prove our statements. Having said that, he couldn't keep up minimum speed for many laps and was a danger to other drivers on a track where split second decisions are made 20 times per lap, the last thing you need is is a wounded car drifting high and low trying to stay out of everyone's way, bottom line, he should have pitted.

If you listen to the interviews and look for the facts on the internet, you will see he lost his brakes early. He went many laps down. However, he wasn't in the way and was able to maintain minimum speed until the tie rod broke. He was told to get all he could so he could stay in the top 35 in points. When that broke, he wasn't able to maintain minimum speed and was black flagged. He couldn't get the car to pit lane the first lap by because he was in the outside lane and couldn't get down. On the second time around he was down on the inside and when he went to turn into pit lane he missed it because of the steering issue. The engine had been acting up for about 20 laps and it chose that time to just quit. It wouldn't coast to the pits because the front wheels were pointed in opposite directions. He was doing what he had to do. All day long he made sure to get out of the way of others. For as long as I can remember in Nascar, drivers have brought totally trashed cars back onto the track because of the point system. It was for the year end points money. In more recent years, cars have the extra burden of maintaining the top 35 position to be guaranteed a starting position in the next race if something goes wrong or there is rain. That's why you see cars out on the track that shouldn't be at times. David had a set of "circumstances" happen at the same time that caused this. I'm pretty sure he would have rather parked the car when the brakes first went out and he was several laps down. But that isn't the way Nascar works.

[Trash Inturn4]

Winger, It's nice to see a post based on the facts of the events of the day involving David. Unfortunatly some people like to make a judgement of the situation based on their own interpretation of what happened, and say this is what he should of done. Unless someone is walking in David's shoes, they don't have a right say what he should or shouldn't do in the situation, only he knows all of the factors influencing what he should of done, and only he can make that decision.