Quote Originally Posted by Ka$h25 View Post
Watch the row of cars behind the 8 and 44. The 44 comes out of turn two in the same grove as the outside car in the row behind. He pushed up quite a bit and initiated the contact. You can see the right rear swing out and touch the 8. After that they bounce off of each other a couple times and the 44 ends up getting turned.

It's a 20 lap race in a large competitive field. Don't chastise the kid for making an outside pass on lap one. I'd understand if he made a bad decision, maybe if he nose dived going into the turn, but he made a clean pass on the outside. Perhaps the 44 didn't like being passed out there and thought he'd run him up a bit. Either way if you ask me, racing incident.
He was not yet past the 44, just up to his right rear, and being that early in the race, probably should have backed off, especially in view of the previous pile up that occurred on the first try at getting that race going. It's the first time I remember the officials mandating a single file restart with NO laps complete..
Funny, that's exactly what he did when he was passed illegally later in the race (watch the video again).
Yes, it was a racing incident, but one that needn't have happened.
Let's see if the much touted 'sportsmanship' involves the #8 team helping the #44 guys work on getting the car ready to race again.