Full Throttle

When first reading of the New Hampshire race driver convicted of reckless conduct with a deadly weapon I had visions of some of NASCAR’s “bad boys” being frog marched in leg irons to the local Iron Bar Hotel.

Thankfully that hasn’t happened. Yet.

The AP report of the incident contains little in the way of details, just the name of the track (Twin State Speedway in Claremont, NH) and name of the driver. So a searchin’ I went.

The Concord Monitor still has the original article online from October last year.

This wasn’t your run-of-the-mill slammin’ bangin’ that occurs in the heat of the moment on short tracks and superspeedways alike. The incident was the result of an apparent long standing family feud that wasn’t checked at the pit gate.

The local Claremont constabulary reported track officials had met with those involved prior to the evenings races and warned them to keep their personal issues off the track.

That didn’t happen with the resulting charges of reckless conduct and criminal mischief being filed and the ultimate conviction last week for reckless conduct with a deadly weapon.

Not a good thing, but the right thing all things considered.