{"id":408004,"date":"2010-03-09T15:05:34","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=39877"},"modified":"2010-03-09T15:05:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T20:05:34","slug":"breaking-news-nascar-puts-carl-edwards-on-probation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/408004","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News: NASCAR Puts Carl Edwards on Probation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/breaking-news-nascar-puts-carl-edwards-on-probation\/carl-edwards\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-39878\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Carl-Edwards.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Carl Edwards\" width=\"355\" height=\"450\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-39878\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Carl Edwards has been placed on a three race probation for his deliberate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/brad-keselowski-crash-at-kobalt-tools-500-in-atlanta\/\">punting<\/a> of Brad Keselowski in last Sunday\u2019s Kobalt Tools 500.  Edwards was not fined, suspended or docked points for Sunday\u2019s crash.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-39877\"><\/span>Per NASCAR president Mike Helton, \u201cWe made it clear to Carl that this wasn\u2019t acceptable (behavior), that it went beyond what we said in January about letting drivers police themselves.\u201d  Helton went on to say, \u201cWe parked Carl (after Sunday\u2019s incident) and gave him the three race probation for what he did.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Which means nothing, really.  What comes after a three race probation?  A three race double secret probation?  A rap across the knuckles with a wooden ruler?  Dollar off coupons at Arby\u2019s restaurants?  Because I\u2019m a little unsure that any punishment was actually handed down.  I get it, you want drivers to police themselves and you don\u2019t want to punish them for hard racing.  If that\u2019s the case, don\u2019t even bother with going through the motions on disciplining drivers who break the rules.  It makes for exciting racing, right up until a driver, spectator or track worker gets killed.  By that time it\u2019s a little late to rethink your position on overly aggressive driving.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoweek.com\/article\/20100309\/NASCAR\/100309908\">AutoWeek<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p3BVeGiikh6Kzqj5MRH28CEfb3Y\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p3BVeGiikh6Kzqj5MRH28CEfb3Y\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p3BVeGiikh6Kzqj5MRH28CEfb3Y\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/p3BVeGiikh6Kzqj5MRH28CEfb3Y\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carl Edwards has been placed on a three race probation for his deliberate punting of Brad Keselowski in last Sunday\u2019s Kobalt Tools 500. Edwards was not fined, suspended or docked points for Sunday\u2019s crash. Per NASCAR president Mike Helton, \u201cWe made it clear to Carl that this wasn\u2019t acceptable (behavior), that it went beyond what [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-408004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408004","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=408004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408004\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}