{"id":86,"date":"2010-07-24T03:10:12","date_gmt":"2010-07-24T03:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-07-24T03:10:12","modified_gmt":"2010-07-24T03:10:12","slug":"carl-and-brad-part-three","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/2010\/07\/24\/carl-and-brad-part-three","title":{"rendered":"Carl and Brad part three"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Carl at Talladega<\/p><\/div>\n

Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski have been at it again.\u00c2\u00a0 It all began in April of 2009 when Bradley K. gave Carl a great push at<\/p>\n

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Carl at talladega finish line<\/p><\/div>\n

Talladega to take the lead and dumped Carl to take the win.\u00c2\u00a0 Brad held his line, Carl tried to block sending his car into Brad’s then into Ryan Newman’s car.\u00c2\u00a0 From the hood of Newman’s car Carl’s car went airborne into the fence.\u00c2\u00a0 A feud was born.\u00c2\u00a0 Bradley K.\u00c2\u00a0 got the win and Carl, got out of his car and ran across the finish line.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah,he ran.\u00c2\u00a0 At the end of last year’s season Denny Hamlin made a statement about Bradley K. and his overly aggressive style of racing saying that Brad would find out when he got to the Sprint cup level his style wouldn’t be tolerated.<\/p>\n

Also that he, Denny Hamlin would be the first at the pay window handing out Brad’s comeuppance.\u00c2\u00a0 Flash forward a year and sure enough Bradley K. has been in the mix a lot in cup races.\u00c2\u00a0 True, Denny has had his own issues this season with knee surgery and an inspiring string of wins post surgery but he’s been quiet about Brad.\u00c2\u00a0 Too busy winning.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl seems to have taken Denny’s spot at that window.<\/p>\n

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Brad in Atlanta<\/p><\/div>\n

Witness Atlanta in March when Carl hit Brad and sent Bradley K’s car into a flip and subsequently into a wall at Atlanta Motor speedway.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl said that he would race Brad the way he raced him.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl also admitted that he intentionally put Brad into the wall he just didn’t think Brad’s car would go airborne.\u00c2\u00a0 NASCAR’s response to this incident was that it was good hard racing.\u00c2\u00a0 Enough said. \u00c2\u00a0 Last weekend it happened again at Gateway International Raceway.\u00c2\u00a0 This time after several laps of hard, tight, aggressive racing Bradley K. bumped Carl, after racing a little while longer Carl bumped him back sending Bradley K. into the inside wall subsequently wrecking or causing 9 other cars to wreck.\u00c2\u00a0 These are the facts and history of this feud between these two talented and competitive drivers.\u00c2\u00a0 Now for my opinion.<\/p>\n

I waited a few days before beginning to write about this subject.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’ve read this blog at all you know that Carl is my driver.\u00c2\u00a0 I love his style of racing, yes he is aggressive and he’s come up with some really crazy and sometimes inspired bits of driving.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl has good car control granted he’ s not Jimmie Johnson, who has supernatural car control most of the time, but it is good.\u00c2\u00a0 What I saw at Gateway was proof of the difference in Carl’s control and experience and Brad’s car control and experience.\u00c2\u00a0 The bump Brad put on Carl was hard but Carl could handle it.\u00c2\u00a0 He regained control and continued forcing Brad down to the bottom of the race track.\u00c2\u00a0 When Carl hit Brad, yeah it was a hard hit, but I believe a more experienced driver could have handled that bump and maybe gone up but not hit the wall or cars behind him.\u00c2\u00a0 I think about the bumps and runs Denny Hamlin and Jimmie Johnson exchanged earlier in this season.\u00c2\u00a0 That was payback but they both held on and didn’t wreck each other, it was short track, ” I’m gonna move you out of my way” racing.<\/p>\n

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brad and carl bristol 2010<\/p><\/div>\n

“Considering that Brad wrecks me with no regard for anyones safety or hard work, should I: A-Keep letting him wreck me? B-Confront him after the race? C-Wait til bristol and collect other cars? or D-Take care of it now? I want to be clear that I was surprised at his flight and very relieved when he walked away. Every person has to decide what code they want to live by and hopefully this explains mine.” <\/strong>Carl Edwards after the Atlanta race.
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Was Bradley K. the victim much of NASCAR nation seems to accept him as being, not hardly.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl is not the playground bully and Brad is not the innocent kid, I think they are 2 competitors who are too much alike.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl has the advantage of age and more racing experience but they are well matched in guts and in your face style racing maneuvers.\u00c2\u00a0 I do not agree with NASCAR’s fining Carl money and points without doing the same for Bradley K.\u00c2\u00a0 Putting them both on suspension would have been fine if that was the entire penalty.\u00c2\u00a0 It took 2 to cause that wreck.\u00c2\u00a0 I don’t think Denny was carrying on about nothing when he voiced his frustration about Brad’s racing habits.\u00c2\u00a0 Now that Carl has been fined and gotten the collective finger wag he’ll probably calm down when it comes to Brad but I guarantee there will be someone else who will pick this up with Brad for the simple fact that he hasn’t changed what he does on the race track.\u00c2\u00a0 Eventually it will be your fault Brad.\u00c2\u00a0 Don’t misunderstand me, I think Brad is immensely talented but he is also extremely aggressive and sometimes those ideas he has on the track are not good ones.\u00c2\u00a0 Bradley K. get some better car control since you’re gonna race like that.<\/p>\n

I also agree with an on air personality I heard Monday night who said that Carl’s biggest problem is that he doesn’t know how to pay back appropriately.\u00c2\u00a0 He pays back too hard.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s true.\u00c2\u00a0 Carl, I don’t want you to change, race your guts out and stand your ground but please, get better and a bit less obvious with your payback.\u00c2\u00a0 Let’s be real every driver on that track pays back somebody at some point best to worst, that’s just the way it goes.\u00c2\u00a0 NASCAR said “have at it boys” so have at it.<\/p>\n

Again, if you think for one second that this is over I have a bridge in Florida I wanna sell you.\u00c2\u00a0 It will flare up again.\u00c2\u00a0 Maybe by then Carl will be smoother, just like Jimmie and Kurt Busch are not done with each other and who knows Denny and Jimmie might not be over as well. Oh yeah and before I forget Kevin Harvick and lots of people, Carl being one, Joey Logano another.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m sure there is a line in front of your hauler as well K. Harv and I’m sure you’re still smiling.\u00c2\u00a0 That’s all I’m gonna say about this latest installment of Carl vs. Brad.\u00c2\u00a0 What will happen next I can’t say but it will be interesting I’m sure.\u00c2\u00a0 So good luck on Sunday Carl at my favorite racetrack, Indy. I hope my boy Clint Bowyer makes a good showing as well.\u00c2\u00a0 Clint keeps coming close but the win is eluding him.\u00c2\u00a0 I’m cheering for ya.<\/p>\n

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Dale Jr. in the 3<\/p><\/div>\n

Oh yeah, I almost forgot 2 weeks ago Dale Earnhardt Jr. did a very cool thing running the #3 wrangler car at the Daytona Nationwide race to honor of his father, the late Dale Earnhardt Sr.,\u00c2\u00a0 also known as the intimidator.\u00c2\u00a0 Dale Sr. incidentally was the master of the bump and run.\u00c2\u00a0 It was a wonderful thing for Dale Jr. to do and Jr. sealed that deal by winning the race.\u00c2\u00a0 I was relieved when Jr. said he would never run the 3 again, done and dusted.\u00c2\u00a0 Hopefully that statement will stop future questions about him running the 3 again.\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 Let Jr. be Jr. and leave him be.\u00c2\u00a0 Now if you’ve gotten to this part and you’re exhausted that’s ok so am I.\u00c2\u00a0 Rant complete.<\/p>\n

Ta luvs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Carl Edwards and Brad Keselowski have been at it again.\u00c2\u00a0 It all began in April of 2009 when Bradley K. gave Carl a great push at Talladega to take the lead and dumped Carl to take the win.\u00c2\u00a0 Brad held his line, Carl tried to block sending his car into Brad’s then into Ryan Newman’s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily_blog","category-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realityunseen.com\/realityblog1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}