Brendan Gaughan puts his foot in his mouth.

Brendan Gaughan! Boy did he do it. In the day of political correctness he made a boo- boo. During the Nationwide race Saturday night in Nashville, young driver Marc Davis was heading into the garage. Gaughan was headed into his pit stall. Davis hooked a left to head into the garage and boom they made contact. Whose fault was it? Don’t know, but that’s not the point. Gaughan had major damage to the right front of his car, a pretty good car I may add. At the time of the wreck he was running up front. That Accident pretty much took him out contention for a win.

Once Gaughan made it back onto the racetrack with his badly damaged car, he got on his radio and had some things to say about the younger Davis who just turned 19. That “dumb college wanna-be graduate. He better not leave the racetrack without talking to me.” Needless to say he should have just kept his mouth shut, but he didn’t and the whole world heard what he had to say well at least everyone watching the broadcast.

You see Davis is black and Howard University, historically black college is his primary sponsor of his car. Davis is former participant in the NASCAR Drive For Diversity program. When I logged onto the message boards this morning, there was a lot of buzz about the comments Gaughan made last night after the incident. By the way Gaughan drives for Rusty Wallace, a former NASCAR champion.

I really don’t think Gaughan meant anything by what he said he was just very frustrated that he had a car that could potentially win the race and to have that chance slip away probably made him blow his top, but that is what makes these guys professional. They need to learn how to take these things and move on. Racing is so different from any sport because fans have more access to the action through team radios and they can hear pretty much everything that the drivers and teams talk about. I’m sure if you hooked up radios to players in the NFL, MLB or NBA you would catch a lot of things that would be considered in appropriate.

In the future I’m sure Gaughan will think twice before he opens up his mouth and let out a stupid comment in frustration. These guys are professional and they need to act like it. People may think this is a racial issue. I think it is far from it and I hope that it does not turn in to one. Not to defend Gaughan, but as I said before I think it was clearly him being angry about being wreck and have a car capable of winning the race.

If you are wondering who Brendan Gaughan is, he is former Georgetown Hoya. He played on the same team as Allen Iverson and was his roommate in college. He rarely played, but was a big part of the team.