Wow HelloThere are you just kissing a section of St.Onges butt or the whole thing??????? You have never seen him slam us?? What races have you been watching cause it is not our races. We can never go by St. Onge without being hit or rubbed and it does not matter if we are passing him or if we were passing him. As for him getting loose and hitting us, close but not quite. Lets see it happen over ½ the way down the front straight (there is no corner there to get loose on), oh and he held us against the wall. I have never said that Dave slamming into St. Onge is the right thing to do. Would I have done it…..yep! You can only take so much crap from one person before you need to stop taking it. We have reached that point. We dealt with it all last year because we wanted to win the championship. Which we did, this year is just for the love of racing not points. Too bad one person has to wreck that for us.
As for Dave doing the donut in the infield, he should not have done it. But there was nobody right there. We are at the very end and all of our crew were out on the pit lane trying to help Belesky. We did not put anyone's life in danger!
Oh yeah HelloThere I had totally forgotten about the incident with Belesky from a couple of years ago. Really impressive of you to bring it up, that makes you such a nice guy. Way to go on showing your lack of respect for drivers and you work at the track.
If the black flag was given fairly to both Dave and St. Onge then this issue would have been over.
As for why Dave was suspended. He tried to speak with the OFFICIAL but they would not speak to him or answer him. He tried 2 officials that were in the corner and then tried the track owner. Not one of them would speak. All they had to say was speak to the Race Manager or something. But to be just ignored totally while you are standing in front of them is just blatant disrespect. So Dave called the new owner a tight ass bitch. Therefore he was suspended for verbal abuse to a track official. But he is not an official, as he does not wear the uniform.
I agree with a lot of what Xtremewife 44 has said. And with the officials not calling drivers on things or at least warning them, then this is what is going to happen. Now drivers are taking situations into their own hands.
I have known the Xtreme Team for years now, especially Dave, and let me tell you, he plays fair and if you make mistakes, its okay. He won't flip on you. He is very understanding and the team will do anything to help anyone anytime. They are a great example of how teams should be.
I don't blame Dave for anything he did or how mad he got. If someone were to slam me into the wall and not be called on it, hell I would do something too.
I understand Barrie Speedway wants to put on a good show, but it isn't their money going into the cars to fix them every week if they don't call things.
It's not them that are going to be effected emotionally by a driver getting hurt.
They have to realize that these drivers have families as well as a job to go to on Monday, and yes we all know what we are getting into, but when it goes to the extent of drivers being able to smash other ones against the wall and not even get warned, then that's when this becomes an issue and it should not be happening at all.
It's been really brutal out there and they really need to listen to what the drivers are saying, otherwise the track will just go downhill. The drivers put on the show and that is what brings the people there. So with no drivers, no show, no fans, no speedway....... Just some food for thought
I know Darryl St.Onge very well, he would never intentionally endanger anyones life. Saturday night he pushed up and got into the 44 car on the restart it was a mistake, he thought Doucette and him were getting along this year. That same lap in idiotic fashion Doucette drove wide open no brakes into Darryl the same thing as last year. But what no one knows is Darryl got home this Saturday night @ 11:30 and then had his wife drive him to emerg complaining of a sore neck and back. I talked to him sunday he spent the day on couch with an ice pack some fathers day. He is not very happy, someone did get hurt this week, 44 got two weeks he should be banned. Sooner or later he will hurt someone bad, he cannot control his temper, the only comment St.onge said to me was THIS IS A HOBBY we all have families and jobs this is supposed to be fun.
Wow, quite the opening line, i was amazed at the amount of people that came up to us and said how obvious it was that St. Onge but us into the wall on purpose. Next time i will keep a list, since i am sure he will do it again and get away with it again. So yea he did try to hurt Dave or at the very least wreck our car. Dave and Darrel get along fine, when they are not racing. But Dave is not going to put up with someone who consistently beats his car to the front of the pack and cannot pass cleanly. Especially when his car is one of the best on the track.
As for Darrel being hurt, it was not Dave's intention to hurt him, but to give him back a taste of his own medicine. If you want to dish it out then you need to accept it back. Did you ever think that maybe Dave might be sore from Darrel actions? No. Did you care? No. Would you have ever asked? No. Oh and incase any of the answers were yes or for anyone else reading this. Yes Dave is sore, his neck and shoulder. He can't turn his head.
It is easy for you to say that we should be banned, but i see you hide behind a screen name and don't have the nards to say who youare.Oh you think that you might have a biased opinion. I could say the same about Darrel and nobody would take me seriously either!
Yes this is suppose to be a hobby and fun, but thanks to your team that is not happening for us.
Well all I have to say is lets have the drivers work this out at the track,(but not on it). As it has been posted before we are the ones that put on the show, it should be some thing that we work out. I've read all the posts and everyone has good points Taj says it best the track has ways that we can deal with this so we should before things get out of control and fans stop coming, because who wants to watch talanted drivers use there car insted of the skill to get to the front. This is jmo and I don't want to get chewed out over this. I'm hope that both Dave and Darrly feel better and its good to hear that Jeff is ok as well.
man you really take things to the limit, my entire post is about ensuring drivers dont get hurt including you Belesky. I dont want anyone to get hurt, think of how you would feel if you hit someone purposly and that person left in an ambulance, would it ruin your night ya it would. So lets think and discuss before it happens not have this conversation after. I respect all you drivers and I only stated a fact Jim. On the track you ARE much better than before and I know Steve likes you and has no problem with you. As i stated before you guys put on the best thunder car show in Canada and i just want it to continue and for everybody to go home sat night NOT HURT.
Thats all