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We have two NASCAR drivers that earned whine of the week or a dishonorable mention.
Road rage is a dramatic name we’ve given to people who lose it on the highways, usually after being thwarted from doing something idiotic by someone doing something equally but oppositely idiotic. But when you cut through the psychobabble, all road rage comes down to is whining. It may be violent whining, but it’s still whining.
And so it is that our choice for Whiner of the Week is Robby Gordon, who took road rage off the highway and onto the race track, the one place where you’d think that drivers would know what they’re doing.
Gordon thought he was on his way to victory in a Busch Series race in Montreal. But NASCAR officials were not amused by the way Gordon took control, which was by running Marcus Ambrose off the track and out of the race. NASCAR felt he did it on purpose and ordered Gordon off the track.
But, like your garden-variety idiot driving 55 in the left lane of the Interstate with his left turn signal on, Gordon refused to relinquish the track. He even celebrated his "victory" even as Kevin Harvick was being declared the winner.
Gordon’s defense was that Ambrose hit him first, which made him very angry.
""I did the most laps, I was the first car to complete them, I won the race," he whined afterwards.
On Sunday, the drivers went to Pocono for a Nextel Cup race. Gordon did not repeat his behavior, principally because NASCAR officials sent him to the time-out chair, ordering him not to come out until the race was over.
Dishonorable mentions
Tony Stewart
We’re not sure what it is with NASCAR – maybe something in the oil. But this last refuge of good old boys has been getting awfully whiney lately. Besides Robby Gordon’s childish display, we also had Stewart last week whining that ESPN, the network that kisses the behinds of athletes better than anyone, has missed a kiss somewhere along the line. He used the NSFW version of “cow poo” after winning at Indy, then whined that ESPN stabs him in the back.
Road rage is a dramatic name we’ve given to people who lose it on the highways, usually after being thwarted from doing something idiotic by someone doing something equally but oppositely idiotic. But when you cut through the psychobabble, all road rage comes down to is whining. It may be violent whining, but it’s still whining.
And so it is that our choice for Whiner of the Week is Robby Gordon, who took road rage off the highway and onto the race track, the one place where you’d think that drivers would know what they’re doing.
Gordon thought he was on his way to victory in a Busch Series race in Montreal. But NASCAR officials were not amused by the way Gordon took control, which was by running Marcus Ambrose off the track and out of the race. NASCAR felt he did it on purpose and ordered Gordon off the track.
But, like your garden-variety idiot driving 55 in the left lane of the Interstate with his left turn signal on, Gordon refused to relinquish the track. He even celebrated his "victory" even as Kevin Harvick was being declared the winner.
Gordon’s defense was that Ambrose hit him first, which made him very angry.
""I did the most laps, I was the first car to complete them, I won the race," he whined afterwards.
On Sunday, the drivers went to Pocono for a Nextel Cup race. Gordon did not repeat his behavior, principally because NASCAR officials sent him to the time-out chair, ordering him not to come out until the race was over.
Dishonorable mentions
Tony Stewart
We’re not sure what it is with NASCAR – maybe something in the oil. But this last refuge of good old boys has been getting awfully whiney lately. Besides Robby Gordon’s childish display, we also had Stewart last week whining that ESPN, the network that kisses the behinds of athletes better than anyone, has missed a kiss somewhere along the line. He used the NSFW version of “cow poo” after winning at Indy, then whined that ESPN stabs him in the back.
