In case you haven't heard yet, NASCAR announced that they will not suspend Carl Edwards after intentionally wrecking Brad Keselowski at Atlanta Motor Speedway this past weekend.
It's like I've been saying folks, I just don't see how you can begin the season saying, "We are going to let the drivers be drivers, go out there and have at it boys" and then the first time something controversial comes up suspend a guy, slap a fine on him or whatever.
I've said it from the first time I heard NASCAR make that announcement at the media tour. It would have been better off for them to have not said anything and just reacted that way, just said, "Let boys be boys," but when you tell kids, "There's the candy store, go on in there and help yourself," somebody is going to take more than they should.
Now, they have no choice. This is a defining moment in "Boys, have at it." This is going to set a precedent for in the future, this is a little more have at it than we intended.
The obvious question now is "What does NASCAR tell Brad Keselowski?"
You don't live on, and you don't race on "what ifs." The bottom line is two cars were involved, two drivers were involved and nobody got hurt. It set a precedent. NASCAR says this is a little bit more than what we intended for.
They don't have to tell Brad anything. If you are going to tell Brad the same thing these other competitors have told Brad: You're becoming known as Bad Brad, and sometimes if you are known as Bad Brad something bad might happen to you and it did. So, lesson learned.
We'd all love for Edwards and Keselowski to go to Bristol and qualify side by side and carry a little bit of this on at a short track, but who knows if it will or not.
You would expect that. Normally, when something this severe in nature, when something like this happens, those two guys will probably stay as far away from each other as they possibly can.
NASCAR has a way of getting your attention. I don't think these two guys are going to want to be the center of NASCAR's attention again.
