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Getty ImagesI suspect that during his time as a college student at the University of Missouri, Carl Edwards took a lot of tests. Some were probably of the multiple-choice variety. Late Sunday afternoon at Atlanta Motor Speedway, he took another, and if I were grading his answer, he would get a failing grade.
The results of the test were televised for all to see: Edwards ran into the rear corner of Brad Keselowski's car and sent that car flying, at 200 mph, into the AMS retaining wall. Nobody was hurt, but a lot of people could have been.
Immediately after the race, Edwards seemed concerned and contrite.
Then an Edwards Facebook entry began to make the rounds.
In that entry, Edwards presents the multiple-choice question he wrote to himself as he pondered a response to Keselowski's history of wrecking people in general, and Edwards in particular.
Edwards asks:
A. Does he keep letting Keselowski wreck him?
B. Does he confront Keselowski after the race?
C. Does he wait until Bristol to issue a payback and risk collecting other cars?
D. Does he take care of it now?
On the track, Edwards answered D.
Oh, sorry, wrong answer.
The correct answer would have been B or C.
I see that a lot of race fans are loving what Edwards did and what he has said. I see they are calling him the new Intimidator.
Must be new fans. Or fans who were not paying attention when Dale Earnhardt was earning that nickname.
Earnhardt would have answered B or C. He would have looked Keselowski up in the garage, and Keselowski would have soiled his driving suit.
If that did not get through, Earnhardt would have waited until Bristol or Martinsville and then used the bumper.
Actually, Earnhardt's answer might have been both B and C.
And my guess is, the fans that loved what happened at Atlanta might have a different opinion had the No. 12 car come down in their laps – or a relative's lap – as they sat in the grandstands.
This ain't no video game, folks. This is chunks of metal and combustible liquids flying through the air at 185 mph.
Leave the innocents out of it.
Jim Pedley is managing editor of Racin' Today. Read more NASCAR news at racintoday.com.
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