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Originally Posted by Steve Dallas
To some of the previous posts...there a difference between bump to pass/rubbing and wrecking your car, then waiting for that person to come around again to wreck him in retaliation after the fact...thereby almost taking out other racers.
Not that that hasn't happened before, but anyone that did do it was an idiot. I don't recall Earnhart ever doing anything like that. He bumped and rubbed and sent quite a few people into the wall, and I don't think he ever did what Kyle did in this case. He took his lumps when it happened to him and pretty much said "that's racin'".
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Correct Earnhardt never waited in anyone to come around and obviously take them out. But I do recall several times when people took shots at Earnhardt AFTER the race or
caution came out like Bill Elliot did in 1987 after the Winston. The incidents with Terry Labonte and Rusty Wallace were all hard racing, in the first incident with Terry at bristol Earnhardt was catching him and on the last turn of the last lap Terry got held up by a slower car and earnhardt got into him turning him into the wall, but he still won the race, the second bristol incident with terry most people fail to recall that he had 40 lap fresher tires than Earnhardt, and when he passed earnhardt on the white flag lap he bumped Earnhardt 3 times to do it, then something that should have been impossible for him to do with old tires Earnhardt caught back up in turn 1 and returned the favor, this was hard racing. The Talladega incident with Rusty was a case of Rusty trying to block Earnhardt from passing on the last lap. People also fail to recall incidents where Earnhardt got wrecked and did nothing to retalliate, such as Jeremy Mayfield when he
took dale out on the last lap to win his first race, or Kyle Petty putting Dale in the wall at the winston one year then Kyle wrecked Davey Allison as they crossed the finish line, all hard racing. Kyle Busch seems to not know the difference between hard racing and retaliation. For which he is good for doing.