That's just racin'

So, I was on IRC tonight, as I always am, and someone asked in the channel if there any Nascar fans in. I, being an avid fan, said I was. The person then went on to rant about how Jeff Gordon is a bad driver and should know better than what he did on Sunday and that Nascar has to stop handing him championships and giving him special treatment. I may not be a decades lone Nascar fan, but I do know that Jeff Gordon almost didn't win a race at all last year, never mind the championship, and the year before he raced hard to get the championship he earned and only someone who really hated him could even think of claiming he didn't work for that. What did Jeff do? He made a mistake, being only human and all, and he hit three of his own employees on Jimmy Johnson's crew. A one year or lifetime ban on Gordon is overkill for something he will not do again.