Quote Originally Posted by IC2 View Post
As far as the Vickers/Earnhart crash - not an unusual thing for a couple of, IMHO, mediocre drivers.
I'm certainly not going to contend that Jr is one of the best drivers out there, and for sure, I think he's his own worst enemy in some of the choices he makes, but putting him in the same category as Vickers is inappropriate too. Jr is 7th on the active driver win list with 18, Vickers has 1 (in Hendrick equipment yet).................and he got that by knocking out Johnson and Earnhardt (who was leading) in the last lap at 'dega. Like I said earlier, I doubt he thinks a 5 lap penalty would have been an appropriate response then. In fact I recall his comment when asked if he thought he won unfairly was something like "that's racin'!". Jr will probably drop on that list as Kyle Busch and Carl Edwards continue to win regularly, maybe even Kenseth and Biffle will pass him by, but that would still have him in the upper 25-30% record wise. It might be interesting to see if all the criticism he's taking this week will make him stronger or beat him down.................that'll tell us what kind of man he is.