{"id":3188,"date":"2012-08-28T23:15:53","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=3188"},"modified":"2012-08-28T23:15:53","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T03:15:53","slug":"countdown-five-awesome-helmet-tosses-in-nascar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2012\/08\/28\/countdown-five-awesome-helmet-tosses-in-nascar\/","title":{"rendered":"Countdown: Five Awesome Helmet Tosses in NASCAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just any sport that you can see a driver seek revenge on another driver for doing them wrong by getting out of their car, pulling off their helmet, pinpointing their target and nailing them across a track of 40 other drivers. With last weekends controversy between Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth, we bring you 5 awesome helmet tosses in NASCAR history.<\/p>\n<p>Below are five videos of the most awesome helmet tosses in our opinion that have happened during a NASCAR race.\u00a0 Starting at number 5 and counting down to number 1.<\/p>\n<p><strong>5. Tony Raines Throws Helmet at Robby Gordon &#8211;\u00a0 2007 BUSCH Series Race at Dover<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=auAHiW-TGo4&#8242;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>4.\u00a0 Elliott Sadler Flings Helmet Across Track at Ryan Newman &#8211; 2002 Winston<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KqPGfsahHHk&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>3. Robby Gordon thinks Michael Waltrip is a piece of s***- 2005 New Hampshire<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=guX8i5r7Knk&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>2. Tony Stewart Nails Matt Kenseth on Pit Road\u00a0 &#8211; 2012 Bristol Motor Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mC8Jyuryc_s&#8217;]<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>1. Dale Jarrett Throws Helmet at Bobby Hillin &#8211;<\/strong> <strong>1993 Bristol Motor Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MAVDRgAAy48&#8242;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not just any sport that you can see a driver seek revenge on another driver for doing them wrong by getting out of their car, pulling off their helmet, pinpointing their target and nailing them across a track of 40 other drivers. With last weekends controversy between Tony Stewart and Matt Kenseth, we bring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[788],"tags":[417,437,12,545,637],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3188","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-matt-kenseth","8":"tag-michael-waltrip","9":"tag-nascar-featured","10":"tag-robby-gordon","11":"tag-tony-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3188"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3188\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3188"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=3188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}