At no point do I think that the two people involved wanted the outcome to be what it was. Both sides were at fault ,
There have been some great points posted here on this subject.
I have a few questions that will come up in a civil trial .
We all agree that the Twenty year old kid should have been smart enough to know not to get out of his car and walk on the track.
So why is a guy that won a championship racing against adults the same year the Dumb Kid was born not smart enough to hit the brakes( yes sprint cars have brakes that should work at 25-35 MPH just fine) or swerve to avoid the kid? This is a man with talent through the roof, he can drive anything he has that much talent. But on this night he did not act on any of it.
The dark track comments are silly , if you can drive a car at over 100 MPH just 20 seconds before the death happened then you could have seen the kid on the track. If the visibility was so bad why was the race not called before it happened? Sprint cars have never had head lights .
Why did Tony not drive at the bottom of the track as the driver always do during a caution at our local track?
Again I think this was an accident , I do not think anything that happened was intentional.