I may have gotten the wrong impression about Darrell Waltrip The Driver.
It seems to me from reading RASN & other Racin' Media reports since '93,
that Ole DW moved a number of drivers out of the way for a win.

In this most recent DW article, it seems he never performed a BNR.
Bump-and-run fan polls disturbing to me
Darrell Waltrip / AllWaltrip.com
Posted: 4 hours ago 4/4/07
http://msn.foxsports.com/nascar/story/6640916

But I was shocked by polls on FOXSports.com and NASCAR.com, asking fans if
they thought Jeff Gordon should have knocked Jimmie Johnson out of the way
to win at Martinsville. What was disturbing to me was a majority of people
- almost 70 percent - said that Jeff should have knocked him out of the way.
I was shocked.

Let me tell you why. I am not a fan of the bump and run. I'm not a fan of
taking advantage of the leader and knocking somebody out of the way to
make a pass. That's not racing. Bump-and-running is wrecking, and that's
not what racing is meant to be. Drivers are meant to challenge each other.
It's a mental game; it's not a physical game. If you're going to get
physical with your race car, you need to find another profession.
You need to be a boxer or a football player.

I just cain't believe Ol DW has mellowed this far AND states the Ol--
do as I say not as I do(did). But maybe he was the cleanest driver
there ever was? Bottom line--DW is being paid to be entertaining,
not necessarily being truthful, eh?
--
Crusader

"Crusader" <cru357 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net> wrote in
news:57iklrF2dfobhU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net:

Well, let's just say I don't beleive Waltrip was called "the wild
child" at Nashville Speedway because of his partying habits :-)

John

In article <57iklrF2dfobhU1 (AT) mid (DOT) individual.net>, cru357 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net says...
Shocked! Really? Senior was one of the most popular drivers of all time and
his specialty was wrecking other drivers for the win. I guess who ever wrote
this article hasn't watched much racing.

To bump-n-run doesn't always equal wrecking, Cru. Remember JG &
Rusty? A bump to move him up the track - gently - no wreck. But it's
an expert-grade move that the young'uns usually get wrong. Was it
last year or the year before when Carl Edwards tried to bump-n-pass
everyone on the track, even in the corners, and wrecked them all.
(o.k., I exaggerated a little).

N.

On Apr 5, 4:01 pm, "Nancy2" <nancy-doo... (AT) uiowa (DOT) edu> wrote:

Nancy you are right it doesn't always result in a wreck, but its often
as much a factor of luck as driving skill when it does or doesn't.
Frankly the trend has gotten worse over the last several years. Lots
of the contact in days gone by would be door to door contact. Going
side by side into a corner and the inside car would push out. Yes
there was rubbing, but contact with the rear bumper would have ended
up in fight in the pits.

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 17:46:11 -0400, "Crusader" <cru357 (AT) sbcglobal (DOT) net>
wrote:

My opinion about this subject seems to be different than most
people. My concern is simply, I wish NASCAR would make a rule and
enforce it, make it either legal or illegal, one way or the other and
announce it loud and clear, then the rule should be enforced the same
in every case. Either a driver can bump and run, or not, but now it
is OK sometimes for some people some of the time, but not OK or not OK
for all the drivers all the times. CONSISTENCY is what I want!

Wayne Mann wrote:
do you remember the episode of Star Trek where Kirk, Spock, and Dr.
McCoy played cards with their 'captors'? the game was Fizzbin...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fizzbin

that's where NASCAR gets it direction...