Former Indy-500 Winner Fined $30,000 For A Single Tweet

Sports and Twitter are a powerful combination. And often quite scary. I’m not sure what it is about the world’s fittest, but they seem to love getting themselves into hot water online – and manage to pull it off in just 140 characters.

USA Today reports that Helio Castroneves, a three-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, has been fined $30,000 for tweeting about IndyCar race director Brian Barnhart.

Castroneves wasn’t just “tweeting about” Barnhart, actually. He called him a “circus clown”, and said that he made inconsistent calls while monitoring the race.

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