Tony Stewart Runs Over Driver During Confrontation, Killing Him

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137. Mechanics of driving Sprint cars.

If you hit the brake or back off the throttle, the car will drift to the outside (up towards the wall). Maintaining or increasing pressure on the throttle, to me, says he wanted to narrow his driving line into the turn. If this maneuver would have been successful, and the other dude wasn't moving, Stewart would likely have missed.

In this particular case, accelerating the throttle was probably the only chance of saving that dudes life. In any case, the dead guy is entirely at fault. He was out of his car, alive, and out of danger, and through his own actions, and against the rules of the race organizer, he put himself in the position of being struck by a car legally and actively participating in the race. There is ZERO fault here by Tony Stewart.

Intending to race the next day may have been an asshole thing to do, but there's no crime against being an asshole.