Childress Punches Kyle Busch?
General
I am not defending either Kyle or Richard in this situation - not taking sides, as I believe both of them are very good at what they do. I do not believe the slight contact between Kyle and Coulter on the track after the truck race is what caused the situation - I believe it goes back further than that and involves more than justthat single incident. Regardless of what caused it or what the final outcome is, this is another example of the type of publicity that NASCAR needs in order to put more warm bodies in the grandstand seats. Since we now live in the "information technology" age, this is a whole different environment compared to the early - and even middle - years of stock car racing. A good example is the fact that someone had already "twittered", "tweeted", or whatever they call it, to someone regarding the confrontation before either Kyle or Richard even got back to their motorhomes. The fact is that this type of situation actually occurred all too frequently "back in the day". I guess there aren't that many of us still around who remember drivers like Lee Petty, Curtis Turner, and more recently the "Man in Black", plusseveral others who weren't shy at all when it came to contact with other drivers on the track..........and I suspect that many disagreements were settled behind the garages or out of view of the cameras. I have personally witnessed similar situations at NASCAR-sanctioned dirt tracks (several years ago)......theneveryone would go onto the next track the next weekend and resume their competition. It was just a part of the environment . Today, it gets blown all out of proportion and becomes a huge deal. I'm certainly not advocating that disagreementsbe settled by physically fighting with each other...........but it might benefit NASCAR to go back and take a look at a simpler bygone era of the sport - back when most NASCAR races were sellouts - and figure outsome of the things that attracted fans to the race tracks.
