Original Message

I know Dale Sr. was not the first to wreck someone in NASCAR, but in the new era of TV and NASCAR, it sure seemed NASCAR turned their head to a lot that Dale did, because they saw the results in the popularity it gained after those incidents.  He's not all to blame of course, but the "bump and run" and the "rubbin's racing" stuff sure got rolling after his Bristol incidents in the height of NASCAR popularity.  Pointing him out was wrong on my part, but he was the first driver I thought of in this conversation.