Fans Turning Against Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Are NASCAR Fans Turning Against Dale Jr?
Brian Vickers has managed to do something no one else has been able to do – until now. With one little block he has turned the news media and half of NASCAR Nation against Dale Earnhardt Jr.
“We were racing, he had a run and I tried to block,” said Brian Vickers.” I think I was doing want I had to do.”
That’s some pretty big talk from a driver with a total of one career win in Sprint Cup – and he had to wreck the leaders on the last lap to get that one.
One fan, who was obviously not a Dale Earnhardt Jr. fan, had this to say:
Jr fans are pathetic. Why can’t you admit that maybe your boy was at least partially to blame? I’m not saying that Vickers is innocent, it was as much his fault as anyone, but this whole Jr is infallible business is out of hand. They were BOTH a lap down, and they are BOTH to blame for turning a
battle for the free pass into a race changing big one.BV should have realized that Jr had that much of a run. Jr. had plenty of room and should have gotten out of the gas for a fraction of a second to slide back in line, not shove his way back in. The result was a lot of wrecked cars for no reason. As they say, that’s racin’. It happens.
This incident had nothing to do with Talladega a few years ago. It is kinda ironic that Vickers only win came off a block gone wrong where Jr and JJ ended up in the grass (a dream come true). For all the people that are trashing Vickers for getting his win by wrecking someone, probably never watched Sr. race. It was pretty much guaranteed that if Sr. was running second in the closing laps, the guy in the lead was gonna get “moved.” Everyone loved him for it.
I’m sure this isn’t going away anytime soon. The media is gonna play it up all week going into Cali. And I’m sure all the Jr. fans are gonna praise his innocence and rip on Vickers. Whatever, Jr. fans aren’t all that bright anyways from all that I have seen.
Junior has been getting beat up in the media following the incident. “There are no excuses for Dale Earnhardt Jr.” said David Poole with the Charlotte Observer.
Larry McReynolds said what Earnhardt did was “Totally uncalled for,” while his Fox TV partner Darrell Waltrip said “I don’t care who you are that’s totally wrong.”
Earnhardt didn’t see it the same way. “I got a run — Vickers drove me below the line. He ran into me and sent me below the line,” said Junior. “I just tried not to drive into the grass and tried to get my car under control, and get above the line so I don’t get penalized. I ran into his quarter panel and spun him out. He shouldn’t have started that and that would have never happened. At that point in the race that was pretty reckless.”
Internet message boards are lighting up with comments from 88 haters like “Dale Jr is an absolute idiot,” and “what is the deal with Jr. any way?”
If things keep going like this do you think Junior will get booed at Talladega — and will all his fans switch over to Kyle Busch?
I doubt it, but Vickers has caused quite a stir.
If Junior could have gotten his hands on Brian Vickers after the race there would have been a brawl. “Tell Vickers if he wants to meet me in the garage to get his ass beat I’m willing” said Dale Jr.
So what did you think? Did Junior intentionally wreck Vickers, or is Vickers to blame for the Big One?
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