Quote:This could be a criminal investigation, it looks as if Stewart hit the throttle and hit him on purpose.

 

 

Quote:He obviously hit the throttle but I highly doubt he meant to hit him on purpose.  As I said, it looks as if he was attempting to taunt the angry driver and misjudged the distance.

 

I agree with homebiscuit. I find it hard to believe that he would essentially hit a pedestrian intentionally with his motor vehicle, I mean he's not an idiot....or at least not to that level of idiot....I think its likely something very close to what the above summized - Tony probably tried to get as close as possible to spray the guy with dirt or something, and on a dirt track the back end can get loose in full throttle starts and it unintentionally swerved too much and clipped the guy fatally. 

 

Either way, Terrible judgment from Stewart and he deserves all he gets from this outcome, and the other driver wasn't exactly doing a smart thing either walking towards the car....I guess being under a yellow flag he "assumed" he'd be safe with the mandatory slow speed of the cars at that point. 

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