That little prick,

I love race cars, I have played around in that sport.

NASCAR is stupid I know but I still like to watch some of it.

Jeff Gordon is a liberal by the way, saw him all smiles and taking pics at an Obama/Clinton function

Here are 11 drivers suspended in recent years:

http://www.buzzfeed.com/whoiswillo/ten-other-drivers-suspended-by-nascar-for-violatin-6o16

because that never resulted in domestic violence.

where were drugs mentioned in the story, anyway?

Next time, learn before posting.

"athletes. eom.

no current police charges and 72 hours until the biggest race of the year.Seems to me the current action is premature-he can suffer irreparable damage and the action in no way even benefits her...

I think domestic violence is reprehensible. I also think you don't damage a man's career without proof.

His drunk reckless driving should have been enough; he was a professional racer.

But then I'm not a NASCAR driver.

"Everybody on the outside can tell me I'm crazy, but I lived on the inside and saw it firsthand," Kurt Busch said when his attorney, Rusty Hardin, questioned why he still believed Patricia Driscoll is a hired killer.

He always struck me as a violent person.
I have been to these races in the past, before it was on TV every weekend, and the drivers were always approachable. You could tell what their personality was like outside of the racetrack. Over time, you could see on TV from the interviews and such after and before the race, what kind of people these folks are.
Let's just say that Kurt Bush was not on my favorite list.
Jeff Gordon is.
This is not to say anything about the skill of the driver. On the track a driver can exhibit a different personality than off track. You do what you have to do to win, and your style, is your style.
Enough of my babbling.
I have been a racing fan since the only racing that you could see was highlights of the Indy 500 on the Wide World of Sports the week after the race was run. Now some of it has just gotten way too commercial.
Sorry, I was born with a greasy wrench, and a dirty rag in my hands!

That's a little surprising. n/t

What surprised me is that the court insisted on Busch getting a psych evaluation -- I think he fears that more than even any potential criminal charges.


rocktivity

As the previous poster suggested, perhaps they at least learned from the NFL's mistakes last year.

But Travis Kvapil is still racing today, so I don't really think they learned anything other than to avoid the bad press.

is going to ban someone for domestic violence. Yes, perhaps the only lesson they learned is to avoid bad press, but if they do that by suspending athletes pending investigation, isn't that at least a step in the right direction?

He also did it while on the grounds of the Dover speedway. So it's not as if their actions are exactly timely. Furthermore, Ray Rice was fired and suspended indefinitely by the NFL. His suspension was only lifted after he appealed in federal court.

After TMZ posted the video that somehow the NFL "wasn't able to get their hands on" they then suspended him indefinitely. The reason the court lifted his suspension was because they punished him twice for the same incident, which is a violation of their own policy.

If the NFL had initially implemented the same punishment NASCAR just did, they would have suspended Rice indefinitely from the start and it may not have been overturned in court. It will be interesting to see how long Busch's suspension actually lasts for, though. I suspect it will be far too short.

They waited almost 5 months until a judge issued a protective order. Near as I can tell they did no investigation of their own, unlike the NFL (albeit a fucked up investigation).

...and that there is no impartial witness.

he remains innocent until proven guilty.

"Jones ultimately sided with Driscoll in the he-said, she-said case, citing her credibility and demeanor while testifying.

He wrote the "most troubling issue regarding (Driscoll's) credibility…involves the allegation that (Driscoll) falsely testified" that Motor Racing Outreach pastor Nick Terry told her in a phone conversation that Busch's lawyers "had offered him financial assistance in an effort to secure his testimony, which she characterized as an attempt to bribe Mr. Terry."

But Terry testified at the hearing, which lasted four days stretched over two months, he had not been offered financial assistance.

Jones wrote he decided to "disregard" Driscoll's false testimony because it did not rise to the level "where the balance of her testimony cannot be trusted ... as the Court finds that the balance of her trial testimony is sufficiently corroborated by other credible evidence."


http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2015/02/20/kurt-busch-domestic-violence/23755593/

He's been banned from the premier race of the year.
al·leged
əˈlejd/Submit
adjective
(of an incident or a person) said, without proof, to have taken place or to have a specified illegal or undesirable quality.
"the alleged conspirators"
synonyms: supposed, so-called, claimed, professed, purported, ostensible, putative, unproven
"did Mr. Ramirez tell you what time this alleged crime took place?"

It has nothing to do with being charged-and if you read the OP I STATED he has not been charged.

"In this case the court alleges..."
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141019635#post31

Family court judge David Jones alleges. There are currently no criminal charges and there has been trial. I posted the definition of alleged. Driscoll alleges she was attacked and the Judge alleges it is "more likely than not" that he is guilty...

The only issue before the family court judge was a protective order which was granted based on the preponderance of evidence that Kurt Busch smashed his girlfriend's head into a wall. If you want to invent something else, be my guest. I don't really care.

Cheers!

where I worked will blame Driscoll for this. I guarantee it.

Good to see someone stand up to wife beating assholes. Maybe it will make some of them think twice before they do that again. Maybe.