re: OT lawyers: is Tony Stewart going to go to jail?

Not unless he comes right out and says "Yeah, he pissed me off and I decided to run over the MF'er." or "Yeah, I thought I'd teach him a lesson and got carried away."

I like Dale Jr and don't have a dog in the hunt, but there is no way to know what his intent was, if any.

Contrary to many of the preceding posts, the only thing that there is truly no doubt about is that few of us on this board have a clue about driving a top level dirt track racer. From the little I do know, the car's steering is not designed for F1 levels of precision and the car is designed and set up to drift sideways through the corners balancing on the throttle and steering inputs. From the video evidence, he did not seem to be the highest car on the track or markedly faster than the other racers. Once committed to that corner, TS may not have had enough control to radically alter the line the car was taking and might not have been able to avoid hitting the guy in the few seconds available to react to the presence of the unexpected person jumping at his car in the middle of the track no matter how badly he wanted to or how skillfully he tried.

As for the "acceleration issue", half of the steering of these cars is accomplished with the throttle, making it just as likely that "gunning it" could be an attempt to avoid the guy.

Nobody but TS is ever going to know, so if you hate him, save the BS and just say so.

Lot of stupidity being thrown around in this thread.