After I read about Allmendinger’s arrest today in Mooresville N.C. my immediate response was, ‘Whoa, that’s not good,” and then I was reminded Rob Moroso NASCAR’s posthumous Rookie of the Year for 1990 who died in an auto accident in the Mooresville N.C. area while driving under the influence.
NASCAR Driver Allmendinger Arrested On Charge Of DUI
Now I’m not saying that Allmendinger had a blood alcohol level similar to Moroso’s all I’m saying is that Allmendinger’s situation played on some memories of mine from way back when that’s all - Moroso was a bright up and coming star in NASCAR when he died and Allmendinger could be seen in the same light.
This is a pie in your face moment for Allmendinger for sure, especially after it was unofficially reported yesterday that he was going to be the full-time driver of the iconic Richard Petty Motorsports #43 next year with Best Buy as the rumoured primary sponsor.
How many of us have had drinks with dinner and then drove home? Come on be honest. Thought so.
Drinking and driving has been looked down upon in recent years, and rightly so. It is certainly more scrutinized now than 19 years ago. In fact where I live the blood alcohol tolerances for drinking and driving have become lower and lower and I can only assume that is the same in the Mooresville area too. What once might have been acceptable even 5 years ago might not be acceptable now. In other words you might have been able to get away with a few drinks over dinner a few years ago and now that isn’t so.
It will be interesting to see how Richard Petty Motorsports responds to this as Richard Petty himself has had a long history of not wanting to be associated with alcohol, so much so that he and his drivers have not participated in NASCAR’s alcohol sponsored pole awards and pre-race season Bud Shootout when the only way to to get into the race was by winning a pole within the previous year.
We will have to wait and see.
Call me psychic, but I would also expect to see NASCAR to ‘randomly’ drug test Allmendinger this weekend.
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