In 2002, Kevin Harvick was parked for a Cup race at Martinsville after not playing nice in the Craftsman Truck Series race.
In 2008, Kyle Busch did much worse in CTS action at Michigan and therefore should not have been permitted to run Sunday.
As much as NASCAR leaves the National Hockey League it its (brake) dust, there is one rulebook item in the land of puck that stock car racing needs to adopt. Hockey, like NASCAR, markets itself on its physical, take-no-prisoners play. It doesn’t want to feminize the sport by not letting the players police themselves.
But in hockey there’s a difference between toe-to-toe fisticuffs and something that is considered an “attempt to injure.” The NHL has drawn a clear line between dropping the gloves and parting someone’s molars with a stick. NASCAR has not done nearly as good a job at defining what is aggressive and what is egregious.
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