Honestly I'm not trying to defend him, I did a kinda similar thing a couple years ago to Terry Fowler at a Ca. state championship. He passed me on the last lap so I t-boned him pretty hard a couple turns later and we both went down. The overall was on the line, but I had a flash of "this would be funny but I'm serious" go through my mind, and since my bike stalled and his didn't I ran over to him to hit his kill switch because I knew he had trouble starting the 4-stroke and I could win. We laugh about it to this day, as will Doug and Spud. I guess my point is even though it's a serious race and they all take it VERY seriously, this type of thing would not happen at a national which is ALL business, you wouldn't even think of anything like that unless you flat hate the guy and don't give a crap about your career. If he was dead serious about tackleing him he could have done it, it was a slow corner, and had Spud actually fallen, Doug probably would of went ohh s... and waited for him to get up and fall in behind him ...I don't know. All I know is it's not at all like him to do something like that in a dead serious manner, but who knows , he may be getting angry in his old age lol, and I would bet they will be laughing about it in years to come, it's good bench racing material I know that....I hope!
I tried calling him, but I think he went to Japan for testing, so I'll get back to you...who knows, I may be eating my words in the near future lol.
super rat, I'm not thinking your trying to hang him, maybe I'm just saying I might have done the same thing lol... it's all good with me.