Richard Childress’ assault on Kyle Busch after a NASCAR Truck race Saturday will cost Childress $150,000.
But the powerful team owner was not suspended and only has been put on probation until the end of the season.
"We feel this action is appropriate and are confident all parties involved understand our position on this matter and will move forward appropriately," NASCAR said in a statement released Monday morning.
Big frickin’ deal.
The fine is not much more than a slap on the wrist for the 65-year-old owner of Sprint Cup cars driven by Kevin Harvick, Jeff Burton, Clint Bowyer and Paul Menard, and a couple in the truck series.
Childress accepted blame for the heavy-fisted assault on Busch. Here’s his entire statement:
“First of all, I'm responsible for my actions, plain and simple. As you know, I am a very principled person and have a passion for what we do at Richard Childress Racing. I believe passionately in defending my race teams and my sponsor partners. In this instance, I let that passion and my emotions get the best of me. I accept the penalty NASCAR announced today and, as a company, we will now focus on this week's races at Pocono Raceway and Texas Motor Speedway.”
Notice anything missing?
How about an apology, if not to Busch at least to NASCAR.
Comments posted on various major websites indicate the majority back Childress.
That’s just wrong.
I’m sick and tired of folks defending Childress’ actions as being “old school.” I thought the old-school days of fighting and corporal punishment ended a few decades ago.
If the Childress backers want to return to the “good old days” then media should quit covering the sport and major networks should ignore it like they did in those good old days.
I’m a little tired of defending how a simple, premeditated assault by an owner on an owner/driver belongs in a major-league sport.
For those who want to go back to the old days, fine.
Pull out the confederate flags and settle differences with fists.
That’s not my America today, and I don’t believe it’s yours. It’s not what I want to see in motor sports.
If that’s how you like it then you take racing back to being a bush league and not a major league.
I hope to defend my position early Tuesday morning on The Morning Drive on Sirius XM satellite radio (Station 90).
19, predominantly southern, U.S. states legally allow school employees to hit students with wooden paddles to inflict pain as punishment, known as corporal/physical punishment/paddling.
If school employees hit students with wooden paddles to deliberately inflict Pain as Punishment in view of the public rather than within the walls of a tax-payer funded school building it would be criminal felony assault, they'd be arrested and imprisoned as any other person be they a Parent, Babysitter, Police Officer, Lawmaker or U.S. Supreme Court Justice!
Get the disturbing facts, search "A Violent Education".
Spanking and Paddling are heavily associated with the pornography industry.
Corporal/Physical Punishment is already Illegal in Schools in 31 U.S. States and Prohibited by Federal Law for use against convicted felons, murderers and child molesters, in U.S. Prisons.
Recently, the National Lt. Governors' Association adopted a Resolution to Encourage the Elimination of Corporal/Physical Punishment in Public Schools.
In 2007, Montel Williams said, "The United States Supreme Court, the organization that is supposed to protect all of our civil rights and civil liberties has decided that children are so insignificant in this country that they will give the authority to a state administrator to abuse our children. So, right now, the highest court in the land in the United States of America is tantamount to complicity in child abuse. They say it's ok to beat a child."
Please add your voice at Unlimited Justice dot com National Campaign to End School Paddling of Children. Demand Equal Rights!
Thank you Richard.
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