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Hamilton upset after tangling with Harvick

By HANK KURZ Jr.

AP Sports Writer

October 15, 2001

 

 

MARTINSVILLE, Va. (AP) -- Bobby Hamilton has won at Martinsville Speedway before and seemed poised to do it again when he caught Kevin Harvick with 28 laps to go and nudged him aside in the Old Dominion 500.

 

It didn't last, though, as Harvick returned the favor in the third and fourth turns, spinning Hamilton out and relegating him to 13th place.

 

``He's just trying to be (Dale) Earnhardt. Earnhardt knows how to do it. He don't,'' Hamilton said about Harvick, who took over Earnhardt's car after The Intimidator died in a crash in the Daytona 500 in February.

 

``If he came over here and said something, me and him would have a fight right about now.''

 

Harvick, who finished 22nd, was called into the pits and penalized one lap by NASCAR for what the governing body said was rough driving.

 

``Bobby got into us a little bit and we just kind of returned the favor,'' he said. ``I guess that's not what they wanted to see.''

 

He also thought his status as a rookie isn't helping.

 

``I watched several guys go out there today and spin people out,'' he said. ``I think it might have something to do with the rookie stripes on the back of the car. But hey, it's their call and they do what they want to do. They didn't feel it was right, but I didn't feel it was right that Bobby Hamilton knocked us out of the lead.

 

``It's an eye for and eye, and that's the way we race.''

 

 

Is NASCAR picking on him?

 

Hard for me to say.  Harvick has been a few altercations this year, which may have contributed to the decision.  But knowing how NASCAR is, they do sometimes like to take one person and pick on them and make an example out of them.  Thay did it to Dale at one time, they've done it to Rusty before, and to Tony Stewart.  Could this be their new example?  Maybe it is because he's a rookie.  Maybe they don't like it that a rookie, who didn't even start the season in the car, is so high in the points and doing so well.  It's hard for me to decide.  What do you guys think?

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I'm having a real hard time accepting any ruling that NASCAR passes down anymore.  Everything is up to the officials judgement, and is never consistant.  I do not understand how you can not penalize one driver, and penalize another the next lap for the same thing.  Lets not kid ourselves here, the 55 car knocked the crude out of the 29 in the middle of the turn.  Ya think Jeff Gordon would have got penalized if it was him instead of the 29?

 

I think alot of this revolves around the fact that Kevin Harvick, Dale Jr, Tony Stewart are out there speaking there mind, not holding back on their feelings.  Nascar loves the likes of Jeff Gordon, Dale Jarrett, etc that never say anything to contradict them.  They are going to make and example of these young drivers, which is wrong.  If a veteran like Ricky Rudd knocks Kurt Busch out of the way for a top 10 position (in the middle of the race none the less) and doesn't get penalized, I see no way that Harvick can get penalized for bumping a guy out of the way for the lead with 20laps to go.

Jpshostr Senior Enthusiast

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Last night in chat (that more of you could have attended   :D  ) Kyle and I mentioned this.  I saw the whole ordeal and my thoughts are that while neither one of them is free of any blame, they sure went plenty overboard with the penalty.  I honestly couldn't figure out what Harvick was doing in his pit until Benny told me.  I think the fact that 29 has that rookie strip on the bumper played a large deal in this.  I was really pissed off with Hamilton's comments when he was interviewed after the race.  I have not had much of an opinion of him before this, better after hearing what he had to say its safe to say I'll not be cheering for him any time soon.

Elwood Senior Enthusiast

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I think the rookie stripe had a little to do with it.  But I think that more of it is the speaking his mind part.  Ricky Craven admitted he ran Jarret high and got into him, and said Dale should be a little mad at him, he won and nothing was said.  If it had been Harvick they probably would've stripped him of the win.

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