Tony Stewart hits, kills driver Kevin Ward Jr. in Sprint Car Race

[No Sleep]

 

[tremonthustler1]

whether you fukk with them or not, they're still the largest sports network and you expect them to have coverage of something like this because they have the resources to do so while those other small time networks you mentioned might not.

NONE OF THEM are small time.

 

[cook]

NONE OF THEM are small time.

ESPN alone is worth near 50 billion. Fox in its entirety is worth 10 billion.

 

[tremonthustler1]

What are you taking about ? Reporters who follow off road racing were there and reporting shyt . If ESPN used this discretion consistently it would be whatever but they don't . They didn't want to cover big bens rape allegation and barely touched on the shady shyt with how he didn't get charged but Kaep and Jameis they ran with less or even amounts of information. Either use discretion or don't but spare me the excuses .

and those guys aren't ESPN guys. They were reporting on their own. Obviously they weren't seeking out ESPN, CNN, or any other network.

But again, you're condemning a network that apparently most don't even fukk with. It's fake outrage and given the seriousness of the situation, misdirected outrage. If you wanna get mad at a network, get mad at the networks y'all claim y'all are rooting for to take ESPN down. They coulda risen to the occassion and looked great by having their shyt down pat. Did they? Guess not, but had they done so, would you have been tuning in? We know the answer to this already and that is a resounding NOPE!

 

[jaydolf spitler]

nah, the criticism of espn is valid here. if lebron had instagrammed his diet recipe they would have sent that fat fukk windhorst on the next plane to bron's kitchen to cover it live. a kid gets run over and killed by one of the biggest names in nascar and they're nowhere to be found

They can be gun-ho about a story as small-scale as a lebron diet cuz accountability doesn't play a huge role in it. A dude getting hit by a car on a track is a little more sensitive an issue. I don't see anything wrong with ESPN taking their time with the story. What is reporting it immediately in real time going to change? It's not gonna bring any more justice to the situation. I'd rather get my news later with full accuracy than reactionary speculation. You had dudes in here talking like dude wasn't dead at first, like Tony Stewart was in his car ready to race the next day, both of which didn't happen. What's wrong with taking time to accurately cover a story? People are so spoiled these days and want things immediately

 

[tremonthustler1]

ESPN alone is worth near 50 billion. Fox in its entirety is worth 10 billion.

and CBS and NBC?

and CN fukking N?

 

[Brofato]

This has actually happened to a black driver before

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_T._Ribbs

n 1990, Ribbs joined the CART circuit in a car funded in-part by comedian Bill Cosby.[3] Ribbs had one top-10 event that season. Also in 1990, Ribbs was involved in an unfortunate incident during the Molson Indy Vancouver where a track marshal was killed. The track worker, Jean Patrick Hein, was pushing another car off the track when he darted in front of Ribbs' car, was run over, and killed.

In 1991, he became the first African-American to qualify for the Indianapolis 500.[4] He raced there a second time in 1993.[5] In 1994, he continued in the CART series with the team, finishing in the top 10 at the Michigan International Speedway[6] and New Hampshire International Speedway[7] races.

So that's where the name of the school on the proud family comes from.


Anyway, after watching it a lot of times, it looked like he tried to scare him but wasn't trying to hit him. I can't really tell to be honest. Either way, in the gif, the kid looks stupid. In the video, he still looks kinda stupid for running into the middle of the track. I don't get that but you can clearly hear the car accelerate which makes me think he either intended to hit him or intended to scare him. I don't know enough about Tony Stewart or those cars to know really. Either way, that's a charge.

And this joke was on Deadspin:

Big deal, people get run over during altercations all the time.

 

[tremonthustler1]

They can be gun-ho about a story as small-scale as a lebron diet cuz accountability doesn't play a huge role in it. A dude getting hit by a car on a track is a little more sensitive an issue. I don't see anything wrong with ESPN taking their time with the story. What is reporting it immediately in real time going to change? It's not gonna bring any more justice to the situation. I'd rather get my news later with full accuracy than reactionary speculation. You had dudes in here talking like dude wasn't dead at first, like Tony Stewart was in his car ready to race the next day, both of which didn't happen. What's wrong with taking time to accurately cover a story? People are so spoiled these days and want things immediately

If I could dap this 10 times over I would.

 

[Sleepy Walker]

I'll say this since people are getting hung up on him getting out of the car. IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! On a oval track Tony could see him the same way the driver who went around him did. Tony Stewart being the hot headed arrogant b*stard he is blipped his throttle at the right time to sling the back of the car around to hit him. It's very obvious and you can't see or understand that you will never understand it.

 

[THEANGEL&THEGAMBLER]

FWIW here is the perspective of former Bloomington, Indiana sprint car driver Kevin Briscoe per his Facebook page:

"Thoughts and prayers are with the Kevin Ward family. Last night’s accident from a driver’s perspective: Tony did not do this on purpose and was only trying to avoid Kevin when he saw him at the last moment. You have to look at the whole situation not just that moment. Tony did nothing wrong in the incident the lap before just made a pass like drivers do a 1000 times. Kevin got over the cushion hit the wall and spun. Yes Tony took a lot of track but never hit Kevin a pass that happens every night in a sprint car. Tony has no clue that Kevin had even crashed when he is coming back around the track and has no reason to even be upset because he is unaware who the yellow is even for. Kevin is the very upset because he thinks Tony had crashed him, he gets out of his car with a black uniform and a black helmet. The track is black and not well lit Tony is not expecting someone to be in the middle of the track and sees him at the last moment gases to turn the car to avoid him and accidently hits him. You have to hit the throttle to turn a sprint car quickly. It was an unfortunate accident and was not on purpose. Thoughts and prayers for Tony, his family and friends."

So Stewart may have not even been aware that there was an issue with Ward

 

[pickles]

http://deadspin.com/tony-stewarts-temper-often-resulted-in-conflict-with-ot-1618964477

This cac ratchet as fukk, scrapping with other racers . Talking about he would "run over" Kenseth "every chance [he] got."




Mannn this cac a thug for real. Straight goon behavior.

 

[LurkMoar]

Just threw his life away

 

[LurkMoar]

http://deadspin.com/tony-stewarts-temper-often-resulted-in-conflict-with-ot-1618964477

This cac ratchet as fukk, scrapping with other racers . Talking about he would "run over" Kenseth "every chance [he] got."




Mannn this cac a thug for real. Straight goon behavior.

Welp

 

[No Sleep]

Just threw his life away

Yeah, he should have stayed in the car. Although, I think Stewart was trying to show out as well and fukked around and hit the kid.

 

[LastManStanding]

I'll say this since people are getting hung up on him getting out of the car. IT DOESN'T MATTER!!! On a oval track Tony could see him the same way the driver who went around him did. Tony Stewart being the hot headed arrogant b*stard he is blipped his throttle at the right time to sling the back of the car around to hit him. It's very obvious and you can't see or understand that you will never understand it.

you seem to already have your mind made up to crucify Stewart regardless of the facts.

so it doesn't matter that the dude was dancing around in the middle of a track with dozens of giant cars riding around at a high speed? (they are still moving very fast even when under caution). did you not see the car that was directly in front of Stewart who almost hit the dude? he was literally inches away from getting hit by that car as well and then struck by Stewart's car immediately after. do some research on those type of cars and you'll find out that the moment you hit the throttle to turn or to try and avoid hitting something the back end of the vehicle immediately shifts to the right.

it's a fukked up situation regardless of how ANYONE spins it, but I think you can look at the tape and see that he didn't intentionally try and run over the dude. scare him? maybe. freak accident? likely.