Kenseth still think too highly of himself

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Fan arrested after going on the track: The sports marketing folks will tell you NASCAR has become a Big Four sport in the country because easy access to drivers makes them seem like ordinary people. Very easy access, one fan proved on Sunday afternoon when he simply walked onto the track for an autograph. During a late-race, red-flag period, a man ran up to Matt Kenseth's #17 Ford, reached through the passenger window and asked the driver to sign his hat. "He just said, 'Will you sign this?'" Kenseth was heard saying to his crew over the driver radio. "I'm like, 'I'm a little busy right now.'" The man, half inside the car window, asked again but Kenseth refused. The man finally gave up and ran — in a far from straight line — back toward the fans' area. He was soon arrested. The man apparently gained access to the track by climbing over the large wire fence, ran across the grass, then stepped over the blue barrier at trackside.(Rochester Democrat and Chronicle)(8-13-2007)
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Come on!! Busy doing what?? Sitting your Arse on the track under a red flag. At least he could have given the guy an autograph knowing he was gonna get pinched by cops.
 
I disagree. Giving an autograph would only encourage future dumb stunts. He may have just been sitting there but his mind needed to be focused on the race.
 
Agreed. Not to mention that he can't see all of the guy, not knowing if he has a gun in the back of his shorts. Anyone remember what happened to Monica Seles? No one ever imagined that would ever happen.
 
Come on, Are we being a little apranoid here?? I mean he carried a conversation on with the guy and if he was afraid of what he might do then the worst thing he could do is rrfuse to sign it. He was doing nothing but sitting in his car and it is not like there was a whole lot of fucusing needed for that.
 
I'm with the other guys on this one.

Don't encourage bad behavior. Ignore the idiot and maybe that will keep others from pulling the same stupid stunt.
 
At least the guy wasn't going to the woods like the guy who ran across the track in front of Kyle Petty and others in Pocono.


June 13, 1993

A bizarre day at Pocono, thanks to a wacky race fan.

"That race has become almost legendary," Petty says, recalling it years later. "It's amazing to me how many people will bring up that race, and they don't remember I won it. All they remember is that guy climbing the fence in the infield, running across the racetrack, climbing the wall and then disappearing.

"I tell you, I've seen a lot of things in racing, a lot of things that are pretty strange. But that might have been the strangest thing that's ever happened."
 
wolfcub said:
Come on, Are we being a little apranoid here?? I mean he carried a conversation on with the guy and if he was afraid of what he might do then the worst thing he could do is rrfuse to sign it. He was doing nothing but sitting in his car and it is not like there was a whole lot of fucusing needed for that.
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Paranoid? No. No one thought a star tennis player would be stabbed on the court during a match. Anything is possible these days, too many crazy people out there that don't care what happens to them.
 
I cracked a joke about the situation in the race thread but never thought for a second that Kenseth would somehow come out of this as the bad guy.

Wow!
 
Being strapped in a racecar and seeing someone run at you like that, had to be a bit disconcerting, at the very least. In this day and age of people just shooting randomly at people, you just don't know.

I don't blame Matt one little bit for not signing the autograph. You can't give people a reward for doing something stupid.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Being strapped in a racecar and seeing someone run at you like that, had to be a bit disconcerting, at the very least. In this day and age of people just shooting randomly at people, you just don't know.

I don't blame Matt one little bit for not signing the autograph. You can't give people a reward for doing something stupid.
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i doubt he even saw him coming..remmeber the hans restricts them to a roughly 90 degree viewing angle, if that. They can't move their heads too much, let alone look out the right side window.
 
TexasRaceLady said:
Being strapped in a racecar and seeing someone run at you like that, had to be a bit disconcerting, at the very least. In this day and age of people just shooting randomly at people, you just don't know.

I don't blame Matt one little bit for not signing the autograph. You can't give people a reward for doing something stupid.
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Exactly. You already gotta figure the furball doesn't have a full deck if he's going to ignore the obvious and hop the fence at a racetrack.
 
It makes complete sense that a driver would ignore the fan under these circumstances. Really the only place this would happen is the road courses. Most of the ovals prohibit the ability to just walk up to a car.
 
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