Forum Activity for @pete-banchoff

I can appreciate what you're saying, Billy, and you are right about wrecks & rivalries filling up more seats in the grandstands - and NASCAR certainly needs that, seeing as how those numbers have been declining the last 2-3 years. The one thing I do not ever want to see again, though, is a driver lose his life on the racetrack - and I've seen that more times than I care to talk about. Keselowski's car stopped sideways on the track & he got t-boned on the passenger side - I don't even want to think about what the result would have been if it had been on the driver's side. I don't have any problem with aggressive driving - after all, that's what racing is supposed to be about anyway - and I believe that when drivers have disagreements on the track, those should be settled off the track.....in whatever manner they choose to settle it. I realize the cars are a lot safer today than they were in the past, but I still can't agree with using them as weapons. And, of course, the other issue is all the equipment of innocent bystanders being torn up - some of those teams are big-money teams, but others are not & can't afford those kinds of losses. I'm all for the most aggressive racing they can put on the track & yes, racers do assume the risk when they strap themselves in, but I believe intentional wrecking is crossing the line of acceptability.