I have had this floating around social media the last couple days because we all knew that NASCAR wasn't going to penalize Kevin Harvick for wrecking Trevor Bayne on Sunday. So now the question is, had he wrecked someone with popularity such as Dale Earnhardt Jr., Jeff Gordon, Jimmie Johnson, or Carl Edwards would NASCAR have done it differently.
I truly deep down think they would have done it much different. Bayne gained some popularity when he won the 2011 Daytona 500 but he has been criticized lately for wrecking cars and a lot isn't of his doing, it is the car setup. He isn't Jeff Gordon, he isn't Dale Jr, Carl Edwards, or Johnson so you really have to think if Harvick wrecked someone with more popularity and fans that NASCAR would have handled this much differently. NASCAR has different standards for different drivers and they showed it this weekend.
I got into an argument on twitter with a Joey Logano fan that claimed Harvick was looking for someone to push him when Bayne wouldn't and that's why the steering wheel turned right. That's the biggest bunch of horse manure I've ever seen. Harvick knew his only chance of making the Chase was causing a caution flag and he did it when he turned the steering wheel right when Bayne went to make his move to get around him for the position on the track. That is low down dirty racing if you ask me.
The sad part is, Harvick probably did it to Bayne because he knows he likely wouldn't retaliate later on down in the season because he's too clean. If I were Bayne I'd wait until Harvick needed to win a race and bump him at Martinsville or Phoenix and claim something broke on the car. But that's not how Trevor Bayne races.
The fact is NASCAR turned their heads because it was Bayne and not someone of importance in their eyes with popularity.
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