Is bumping cars into accidents legal in Nascar?

May be...

You can bump draft cars in the straightaways, but not in the turns. Nascar will penalize a driver if they think he purposely wreck another driver. Brad didn't run into Carl and turn him. He had his nose just under Carl and that is enough to claim the line (especially with the rule prohibiting passing under the yellow line. Carl admitted that Brad did nothing wrong.

Carl Edwards was trying to block Keselowski at the end and when he drove down on him he got spun out. That's just racing. Brad didn't mean to make him crash and they were both just trying to win the race. Carl was interviewed after the race and he didn't look that mad. I'm sure he was on the inside but he is a professional and knows how NASCAR racing can be.

And celebrating after a NASCAR race is legal. Every driver that has ever won a race has celebrated in some way either by doing donuts, driving around the track with the checkered flag, and many other celebrations.

lol burnouts are not showboating its kinda of a tradition. some drivers perfer not to burnout. they drive around the track facing the stands, drivers side door towards fans like mark martin. others flip off the car, ol' carl edwars. other drivers climb the fence, tony stewart. its just there way of celebrating.

You need to understand Nascar a little bit more before you make false accusations.

First of all, Keselowski, the car on the bottom, couldn't pass below a double yellow line. It is a rule. Edwards, the car on the top, tried to block him. He went down the race track and got clipped.His car went airborne and hit the fence. Keselowski was just doing his job, it wasn't his fault. It certainly isn't illegal.

It is totally legal, its stupid though because the cars are going so fast that if you purposly hit someone it is tough to avoid the wreck yourself, plus its stupid and the only time you should wreck someone is if it is a bucsh brother and your a lap down

The guy wrecked himself.. It isn't legal to intentionally wreck someone.. The guy who won would not have risked wrecking himself.. The only thing that saved him was the other car getting airborne..

NASCAR has warned drivers in the past about drafting in the turns but NASCAR has allowed it anyway. They've allowed it on many restrictor plate races including yesterday's Nationwide race at Talladega without saying a word. When some of the drivers get too carried away NASCAR will give them a warning over the radio and if they keep on then they can get black flagged.

Drafting down the straights (pushing) is allowed. They even designed the cars so the bumpers match up and they can do it. That's just part of restrictor plate racing.

The problem comes in that NASCAR doesn't want any car driving (passing) below the yellow line. What this does is create a hazard just like the one that happened today because it's too difficult for a car to pass without going below the line. They have to set up a move and try to fake a pass so they can get their fenders along side of the car in front.

Where the danger is when the car in front blocks. That causes wrecks like there was today at the finish line.
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Read this story. This is suppose to be how the rule works but NASCAR seems to forget their own rules and enforces them arbitrarily. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0...

I don't usually watch car racing, but I saw the finish to today's race at Talladega. I saw the car pushing the one in front of him ahead, which I assume is legal, but then on the final turn he turned the car ahead of him sideways into that car accident before the finish line.

Is this legal? Then I saw the other car celebrating by doing donuts, isn't that some sort of unsportsmanlike conduct? Should the driver of the car that got bumped and totalled be pissed at this?

I don't watch car racing like I said so I'm curious as to how this works.

NASCAR is scripted, just like pro wrestling. That crash was pre-determined as a way of making the end of the race more exciting.

it's not legal to purposely wreck someone, no, if that's what you're asking. but that last lap accident at talladega today was just that, an accident. it was actually more the fault of the guy who got wrecked than the guy to won the race. the 09 car had inside position, and the 99 car tried to come down and block him. all the 09 car did was hold his ground, it would have been illegal for him to go below that yellow line, so he didn't. he did nothing wrong there, and the driver of the 99 car agreed.

Bumping other cars has been legal for decades if you look at the example of Dirty Dead Dale (Earnhardt Sr) how many drivers did he spin out during his career before his bad karma came back on him?
I agree about the stupid lame burnouts, even Dirty Dead Dale wouldn't have done something that assinine.

From the replay, it looked like Brad had his nose under Carl, so If Carl came down on a car, that was already there, he can't blame anyone

I don't think that Carl knew that Brad was that far up, under him, or he wouldn't have down down to block him ,
it was too late for a block....boost controller pit