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Put the field fillers out to pasture.(NASCAR)
It took the death of Dale Earnhardt to bring the issue of safety to the top of NASCAR's priority list.
Now there's another issue that needs immediate attention: keeping the field fillers off the track and out of the way of the competitive cars. If Jeff Gordon's brutal crash into Andy Hillenburg at Darlington isn't enough of a wakeup call, then NASCAR needs a new alarm clock.
My heart jumped into my throat as I watched Gordon, a four-time champion, plow into the No. 80 of Hillenburg, who had just run a lap at 34.280 seconds (140 mph) before Tony Stewart knocked him sideways. That's speedier--barely--than the 34.5-second minimum per lap that NASCAR ...