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They found him.

I tell it like I see it.

Maybe they didn't lead police on a high speed chase and haven't been all over youtube, but I know of at least two drivers at the Nationals with past felonies on their records. One I would consider much worse than Walker's drug addiction and high speed chase. Soooo, if you're sin free, maybe you should do your research, they can line all drivers with felonies on their record up on the front stretch, and you can cast the first stone.

If a pole is involved,  it could be construed as an errotic dance 

Awesome, when did they start doing that at the Nationals?   Can you bring any stone you want or do they have limits?   

Pretty f up you just post the guys name and he gets a hundred hits. Meanwhile you got a hundred young guns runnin a family sponsered car an nobody pays attention. Wake up and donate a few bucks to your local hot foot.

Everyone is getting all worked up, but none of us know if he was too high or if the car actually broke down.....

My medicine cabinet has...

Hemmorhoid cream

deodorant

beard trimmer

shaving gel

aloe vera

q-tips

and a spare tooth brush

do it in the dirt

actually I have family members that are drug addicts and i don't give 2 flying fucks about them either.  If you want to make your bed, sleep in it!  I damn sure wouldn't give a ride to one of my junkie cousins just because he can win a race here or there, I have better standards than that!  

do it in the dirt

+100

I have a niece addicted to heroin. She's: lost her house, been in and out of jail; lost custody of her two children to her mother and mother-in-law, and caused a ton of heartache for our family.......but you know what Meatbag, I, and our family, still love her and will continue to love her and support her unconditionally - becasue that what people with compassionate heart do. Do you hate her too, like you do Tyler Walker and your "junkie cousins" because they are not perfect like you and the rest of the saints on here? Do you enjoy kicking people when they are down?

If I was squeaky clean and the hottest up-and-coming young sprint car hotshoe, and you owned a top-caliber team, I still wouldn't drive for someone like you.

Betcha would.

I have received two phone calls in my life telling me that cousins had been found dead from drug overdose.   I hated getting those calls, but those cousins did it to themselves.   The people around them, like my grandmother, who loved them unconditionally and supported them and bailed them out of everything, did them no favors and were actually a big part of the problem.

Dryslick - I attended a few funerals of the same sort...and not a one of them "deserved" a 410 ride on someone else's dime because of a post on a website.

The folks on here who rush to Walker's defense with their typing fingers each time vertigo diverts him from the hall of fame need to stop paying lip service and put him in their race car to prove to the world once and for all that he is "The Great Tyler Walker" that simply needs a more understanding race team.

Think of the presitge you will receive with your name along side these famous car owners: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyler_Walker_(racing_driver)

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

I took a minute to read the Wiki entry for TW.  I think he was really high when he wrote it.  Not a little high, but really high.  Either that or he is as dumb as a box of rocks.

On a serious note, my exchanges with TW have always been very good, although they were limited to talking at his t-shirt trailer or in the pits after races.  He seems like a good guy and is very friendly.  If you have been around someone with an addiction, you know that there is another person behind that facade.  One that you can't count on at all and one that will sabotage everything in his/her life in pursuit of another high.

You're right. We should all turn our backs on people we care about when they are down, because "they did it to themselves".

No one is saying that Larsonfan, but Willie is correct in that the more you coddle and enable an addict, the less likely they are to confront their demons and actually do something about them.

Support them? Fine. Baby them every time they revert? NO!!

I am lucky enough to work at one of the best tracks 
anywhere.

He looks OK to me

What he said!

All due respect EPSG (love Eagle Raceway, btw!), I never said they should be coddled and enabled. I agree with you there, and my family has learned that lesson the hard way. But that said, I will never turn my back on her. I believe that God will judge us all for what we did and didn't do for others someday.

It might be people turning their back on them that saves their life.