Carl Edwards is a moron

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155 laps down...and you decide to end Brad Keselowski's day with five laps to go by spinning him around, which makes his car go airborne and flip?

Stop being an idiot. Good thing NASCAR parked him immediately after this.
 
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govols120 said:
155 laps down...and you decide to end Brad Keselowski's day with five laps to go by spinning him around, which makes his car go airborne and flip?

Stop being an idiot. Good thing NASCAR parked him immediately after this.
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Carl didn't deny that he did it intentionally. What an asshat.
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govols120 said:
Carl didn't deny that he did it intentionally. What an asshat.
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I am confused though as to what Nascar wants. When they say the gloves are off do they just mean verbal jabs or only wrecking each other at half mile tracks?
 
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What do you expect? It's a Roush driver. They all do stupid stuff like this and cry about not getting their way.
 
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615 Vol said:
I am confused though as to what Nascar wants. When they say the gloves are off do they just mean verbal jabs or only wrecking each other at half mile tracks?
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I was thinking this same thing, when they parked him..
 
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Edwards absolutely should be parked for Bristol. I still think the wreck early in the race was as much his fault as it was Krashlotski's. I mean, he DID come down on him.

Then Edwards pulls out a huge bonehead move. I am all for NASCAR letting the drivers race hard and police themselves and beat and bang and retaliate. But there is a time and place for retaliation. Like, maybe, just maybe Edwards could have taken out Brad on the cool down lap when they weren't going nearly 200 MPH.

Carl is the biggest faker in NASCAR with his "aw shucks" personality on camera and shining those big white teeth. Then he continually does stupid things inside of a car and outside of the car when his temper gets out of control. If this was an isolated incident and the first time he's done something like this it could "almost" be forgiven. I tend to give drivers a pass or two for doing something stupid before I label them stupid period. I have classified Carl into the stupid period category after today's crap.

No Carl maybe you didn't realize that he would blow over and flip due to the contact but you still don't take someone out at a track like Atlanta going that fast. And especially not at one of the fastest parts of the track. What made it even worse is where they showed the replay of the lap before when Edwards tried to take him out then and just missed. Edwards thought he'd just spin down into the grass. Well, I've seen many bad accidents occur when cars hit the grass and dig in and roll over. Or, he could have spun to the inside pit wall and hit it or even spun back into the groove and been T-Boned in the drivers door by another car going 195. That would have been real lovely wouldn't it?

Look, if Edwards felt the need to take out Bad Brad and he done it at BMS in two weeks I wouldn't have a gripe with it except still thinking he was an idiot because I think the wreck of his today's was just as much his fault. But at least he would have done it on a bullring where beating, banging, and spinning out is the norm.

After he jerked his car around and came up pit road backwards today I honestly think THAT was the last straw for NASCAR. Right now they just about have to park him and not allow him to run Nationwide or Cup at BMS in two weeks and place him on probation. I really like Harvick and always have but at one time he pulled some of that same stuff in a truck race at Martinsville and NASCAR parked him for a race and he has settled down quite a bit since then.

NASCAR can let drivers go "gloves off" to a certain extent but they can't allow anyone to turn a driver at Atlanta, Charlotte, Texas, Dega, Daytona, etc on purpose with the speeds they are going. Back in the day guys would patiently wait until they went to Richmond, Bristol, Martinsville, Wilkesboro, or one of the road courses to finish unfinished business. That's the way it needs to be unless they want to go at one another on pit road after the race or in the garage. You can't use a car as a weapon going 200 mph or someone is liable to get killed.

In conclusion, Edwards, you sir are an idiot.
 
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NASCAR can't let the drivers go "gloves off" because there are too many idiots out there that don't know when you hit someone and when you don't.
 
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Best part of it was Edwards trying to wreck him a lap or two before, missing, and driving into the wall himself. LOL.

He alluded to the history between himself and Keselowski, which I guess means he blames Brad for the incident at Talladega last year where Edwards decided to chop off Brad's nose, except that Brad held his line and didn't let Edwards push him around.

That first incident today was pretty harmless I thought, seemed pretty clear that Edwards was coming down the track and Keselowski was just there... and Keselowski doesn't give anyone an inch, which I love about him. Edwards so much as said in his interview following that incident that he was probably as much to blame as Brad was for that one.
 
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Good call, Down n Dirty. Edwards has a history of being a hot-headed, react first, think later kind of guy. Remember when he tried to go after Kenseth (his own teammate!!) during an interview? This guy needs to take a seat and think about it for awhile. Carl and Brad are the type of guys who won't stop until one of them gets seriously hurt or killed.
 
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NASCAR has given mixed signals as to what is to be allowed which is all some "think with their foot" drivers need to rationalize their actions. Not an excuse for Carl, he was totally incorrect in pulling an idiotic move like that. I will be surprised if he is sat down, but he should be.
 
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I suspect all that will come of it is NASCAR's silly "probation" until the end of the season. Maybe a fine.
 
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I'm not an Edwards fan. I like Brad since he was a JR Development driver. Brad has a very rough driving style and should be raced hard, I won't deny that.

That said, I have 2 problems with what Edwards did. The first is that he is 155 laps down and Brad is on his way to a top 5 finish. He should have let it go a lap earlier. It was a 50/50 deal at the beginning of the race and no retaliation was necessary. The second is that Edwards isn't a clean driver either. He obviously wanted to harmlessly spin Brad, but instead it was a very scary accident. Nascar should suspend the #99 for Bristol. That way Carl will be suspended and that team will have to qualify on time for the rest of the season.

I know Nascar wanted drivers to take their gloves off, but not at tracks this fast.
 
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Maybe it was just me and the way I interpreted it, but I was under the impression that the "have at it/take your gloves off" thing they mentioned before the season pertained just to the restrictor plate races in regards to bump drafting following that last race at Talladega when they pretty much told them not to even touch the next car in the draft.
 
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tidwell said:
Maybe it was just me and the way I interpreted it, but I was under the impression that the "have at it/take your gloves off" thing they mentioned before the season pertained just to the restrictor plate races in regards to bump drafting following that last race at Talladega when they pretty much told them not to even touch the next car in the draft.
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It was to retaliation in general.
 
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It would have been fine if he would have just loosened him up, but Brad had a top 5 in the bag and he was 155+ laps down. I'm not denying that Brad K doesn't deserve stuff from other drivers, but in this case, he didn't deserve anything from Edwards.
 
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615 Vol said:
I am confused though as to what Nascar wants. When they say the gloves are off do they just mean verbal jabs or only wrecking each other at half mile tracks?
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I don't theink they ment wrecking another driver on purpose at 195 mph. Be a man, go toe to toe in the garage or in the hauler parking lot after the race.
 
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