Monday, June 27th 'What If' Question

NASCAR drivers are accustomed to going in circles but twice a year the series heads to Sonoma in California and Watkins Glen in New York for both left and right hand turns.

Road course racing is some of the best during the season. Watching drivers attempt to navigate the road against some others who are much better at it, provides many highlights. Sunday afternoon in Sonoma it was Kurt Busch, a non-road course expert who dominated the day but it wasn't what many were talking about.

Drivers were beating and banging all over the 11 turn course. From shoving each other off into the gravel to blatantly wrecking them, Sunday's race was packed with action. Tony Stewart and Brian Vickers played their own version of bumper cars as Stewart sent Vickers for a ride early in the event because he said Vickers was blocking him. Vickers then sent Stewart for a spin in the exact same corner, hard enough that it sent Stewart's car into the tire barriers where it would be lodged.

Stewart said after the race that while he knew he had it coming, if drivers continue to block he's going to continue to wreck them. Regardless of who they are. They weren't the only one with a war of words as Juan Pablo Montoya and Kasey Kahne also traded paint which caused Kahne to say on national television that Montoya has no NASCAR talent so to speak.

Montoya also tangled with Brad Keselowski who retaliated. Keselowski made no bones about driving the 42 off course, which took the 18 of Kyle Busch with him. Those were just some of the few incidents of the day, leaving fans and media alike thrilled with much to talk about during the week.

But ...

What If #NASCAR never instituted the "boys, have at it" attitude, would we still have had the rough racing/paybacks we did Sunday?

@chris1176 I doubt it,or there would be a huge list of fines tomorrow

@pjames Yes

@ronsracing88 Yes, but drivers wouldn't admit as much as to as they do now They just say like or they got lose or something. Blame the car

@cruetten the rough racing, yes. The paybacks, no. And there certainly wouldn't be drivers admitting to it like we saw yesterday.

@JChrisN40 MO no, because guys were too corporate...now I believe its gone too far..lol

Dustin Parks (via Facebook) Hell no. I guarantee Montoya and Vickers would get fined. Its best to end it on the track. That's where it began in the first place.

Mark Eckhart (via Facebook) yea so they'd get fined 25k when they make millions upon millions, they'd definitely still give deliberate payback on the track