Asheville, N.C.

LAST Sunday the Nascar driver Carl Edwards drove his Ford into Brad Keselowski’s Dodge as the two raced around the Atlanta Motor Speedway at 190 miles per hour. Keselowski’s car flew into the air and crashed into the wall along the track’s front stretch.

Wrecks are nothing new in Nascar. But usually they’re accidents. This time, though, Edwards unapologetically admitted that he wrecked his rival in retaliation for an incident last year in Talladega, Ala., where Keselowski knocked Edwards’s car into the fence and out of the race.

What’s surprising is that this was no surprise....  CLICK HERE for the rest of the story at the NY Times