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Kevin Ward dies after being run over by Tony Stewart's car during sprint race [update]


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#1251 eibyyz

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Posted 08 May 2023 - 20:14

 

Not even close to the worst you can see on the internet, not even within racing. Lorenzo Bandini or Tom Pryce crashes come to mind

 

I refuse to look for those two--what's the point?  What insight is to be had?

 

I have this idea flitting in my brain, though--ISTR seeing Bandini's deal on ABC's Wide World Of Sports at the time (I would have been five).  Does this seem plausible to any of the Ussians?  Was Monaco 1967 live?  Would ABC have shown it?



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#1252 Rob G

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Posted 09 May 2023 - 00:34

Was Monaco 1967 live?  Would ABC have shown it?

 

No, Monaco wasn't shown live in the US until sometime in the 1990s. I believe ABC showed the Monaco GP starting in at least the early '60s, but it was probably chopped up for broadcast on "Wide World of Sports" among something like boxing or gymnastics or log rolling or lord knows what else.



#1253 TecnoRacing

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Posted 09 May 2023 - 18:44

New documentary is released on various "sites": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20253856/

So is there anything worth watching in this, or is it tabloid junk?

 

Tony's image has certainly been rehabilitated in recent years, this but incident has always left me ambivalent, and I found the slating of Ward by many of his (Tony's) fans very off-putting.


Edited by TecnoRacing, 10 May 2023 - 01:27.


#1254 YamahaV10

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Posted 10 May 2023 - 00:24

Plain stupidity, sorry to say. Drivers should never ever do that (come across the racing line and confront other moving cars) after a crash
 

 

 

 

 

Thats exactly what Stewart did many times in his career



#1255 Dmitriy_Guller

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Posted 10 May 2023 - 05:55

It may have been stupid to run on the track to confront another driver, but this has been done probably hundreds of times.  The one time it did lead to a death happened to involve a driver with a long track record of using his car as a weapon in a fit of rage.



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Posted 10 May 2023 - 19:52

No, Monaco wasn't shown live in the US until sometime in the 1990s. I believe ABC showed the Monaco GP starting in at least the early '60s, but it was probably chopped up for broadcast on "Wide World of Sports" among something like boxing or gymnastics or log rolling or lord knows what else.

I think Wide World of Sports actually did carry it live that year.  I was pretty small but seem to remember it, and later when I was in my teens recall my dad mentioning how disturbing it was to see the smoke rising above the circuit on the WWoS broadcast.  Maybe same day delay, with different editing standards than would be in use today?  I think this came up around the time of the Ricardo Palletti accident in Montreal in '82.

 

I also clearly recall watching the '69 race on Wide World.  I would have been 5, and honestly Rindt's charge defined one of those beauties of the sport, the "pursuit over time".  It remains one of the great elements of road racing in particular, even as recently as MV's win last weekend.  I spent the rest of the afternoon on my Schwinn Stingray racing around the neighborhood imagining it was a track.

 

Wide World of Sports (the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat) seemed to reliably carry Monaco, an was probably a gateway drug for many a youngster in the USA at the time.  By the late 70's the Long Beach GP was also a "TV event".  And by the mid-80's it seems like most F1 races were available.  Thanks Bernie...

 

But I digress, this was about sprint car racing...



#1257 Jim Thurman

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 16:39

I defintely recall seeing footage of Bandini's accident on TV, and I think "Wide World of Sports." I got curious and looked up TV listings from that period at newspaper archives and found no mention of WWoS televising the Monaco GP, but the week after the accident, the scheduled event was listed as "tentative."

 

I was involved in a recent discussion elsewhere on gratuitous usage of crash footage. If ABC and Wide World of Sports only had that on for that reason, that pretty much defines gratuitous.



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Posted 19 May 2023 - 18:23

I don't follow NASCAR, let alone lower series, but what I remember reading of that crash did suggest to met that Stewart bore some (maybe a lot) of the guilt for Kevin's death. Pretty sure there was at least an intent to intimidate with how Tony drove towards him.

 

This has likely already been linked (haven't read the full thread): https://www.theguard...r-still-lingers



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Posted 19 May 2023 - 22:33

I think Wide World of Sports actually did carry it live that year.  I was pretty small but seem to remember it, and later when I was in my teens recall my dad mentioning how disturbing it was to see the smoke rising above the circuit on the WWoS broadcast.  Maybe same day delay, with different editing standards than would be in use today?  I think this came up around the time of the Ricardo Palletti accident in Montreal in '82.
 
I also clearly recall watching the '69 race on Wide World.  I would have been 5, and honestly Rindt's charge defined one of those beauties of the sport, the "pursuit over time".  It remains one of the great elements of road racing in particular, even as recently as MV's win last weekend.  I spent the rest of the afternoon on my Schwinn Stingray racing around the neighborhood imagining it was a track.
 
Wide World of Sports (the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat) seemed to reliably carry Monaco, an was probably a gateway drug for many a youngster in the USA at the time.  By the late 70's the Long Beach GP was also a "TV event".  And by the mid-80's it seems like most F1 races were available.  Thanks Bernie...
 
But I digress, this was about sprint car racing...

I think you were 6.  ;)

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#1260 Jim Thurman

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Posted 19 May 2023 - 23:32

I think you were 6.  ;)

I wasn't too much older   ;)

 

And wasn't Rindt's charge in 1970?



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Posted 20 May 2023 - 02:00

I don't follow NASCAR, let alone lower series, but what I remember reading of that crash did suggest to met that Stewart bore some (maybe a lot) of the guilt for Kevin's death. Pretty sure there was at least an intent to intimidate with how Tony drove towards him.

 

This has likely already been linked (haven't read the full thread): https://www.theguard...r-still-lingers

It went before a grand jury and they declined to charge.



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Posted 20 May 2023 - 03:03

It went before a grand jury and they declined to charge.

 

And so it goes. We've seen plenty of examples of justice perhaps not being served, or outright abused. I do not hold Stewart as someone admirable, let's put it that way.



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Posted 20 May 2023 - 07:07

I wasn't too much older   ;)
 
And wasn't Rindt's charge in 1970?

It certainly was, that was my point.  ;)