I used to watch it some time ago; right now I’m only “glancing” at it. I can rather assume that you have never watched, because BTCC doesn’t allow this kind of intentional pushing off the track. In fact, they sometimes even hand out penalties for that. This, on the other hand, is not rubbin, it’s a desperate and…

I guess that’s ideally what I’m advocating: if a move or contact is seen as too aggressive/intentional/what-have-you, then the stewards of the race series negate the result of such actions of the offender. I imagine if such things are enforced in a uniform manner, these sort of things will drop off sharply as drivers…

Rallycross allows for a lot of contact, yes, but they (the World RX at least) do not allow drivers to push their competitors out of the way in the last corner like that.
Case in point - Timmy Hanses getting penalized for pushing Mattias Ekstrom wide in Sweden this year.

BTCC is a high-contact series, but they will NOT stand for somebody pushing another driver out of the corner like that, not without establishing his line beforehand. Case in point - Jason Plato getting penalized at Donington in 2012 for pushing Shedden wide in the last corner on the last lap. There was never any…

I’ve got a better idea. How about racing as a sportsman and a gentleman and not bumping at all. Bump & run is a cowardly move for drivers that aren’t skilled enough to pull off a clean pass. The sooner NASCAR cracks down this kind of bullshit the better. Smith should have given the position back to Tagliani…

With such mentality, NASCAR should stay away from the road courses. You don’t hit other cars in the middle of a corner.

He made contact because he COULDN’T pass him. Otherwise he would have. That’s still no excuse for his actions, and there frankly isn’t one.

If you are driving hard and you hit the guy in front of you, you drove too fucking hard. The failure is yours, not the guy in front of you driving at a sensible speed. You figure out a way around him, not INTO him. This was a pure cowards move. Charlie Whiting would have someones head on a stick for that shit.

Is it legal to marry a cousin in this place you live where it's acceptable to push racers out of the way?

If the car in the second position was faster they wouldn’t be in the second position.

Tagliani said in his post race interview that if he knew that Smith was going to pass him like that for the lead that he (Tagliani) wouldn’t have passed Smith so cleanly earlier for the lead. As we all know in most any other form of road racing that catching someone and passing them are two different things. Except in…

Yeah, and punching the leader of a marathon in the back of the head should totally be allowed—but only for those who ‘race hard’. It’s all about the fans and sponsors, yo!

Within NASCAR? It’s perfectly acceptable. Just like hitting your opponent with a handily placed folding chair is in its equivalent physical sport.

I call foul on that one. If he had got to the inside and was clearly going for the lead, that would be OK. He blatantly pushed him from behind to spin him out. That was a dick, NASCAR move.

The leader wasn’t “driving like a pussy” though. So no, it’s not awesome if you have enough brain cells to generate body heat without concentrating.

I would say that blatantly hitting the other guy IS ruining their race. You race clean, end of story. It’s not sportsmanship to blatantly hit another driver to pass them because you aren’t fast enough to do it without causing contact. You hit me to get by me and I might just hit you to loosen a few of your teeth. You…

You’re the one who is new. The bump and run = dq in road racing.

No moonshine required. Keep that one on your fairytale nascar stories.

I know these types of rules don’t typically apply to oval racing, but with road courses the tailing racer typically has to establish the corner as “theirs” to get away unpunished with contact. If you can run into the back of another racer to gain position with impunity then nothing at all separates us from the greater…

I’ll just leave this here:

Why? Because I’m smart enough to abide by my company’s media policy?