In his case, My beef with him was the negligance for his safty aswel as disreguard for rules and regulations for the property owners (tracks) becasue he refused to acknowledge the nessesity for a cage in his car, when his “goal” was to run a low ET. I said he was straight up dumb for thinking that way. Now that he got caught redhanded stealing shit worth that much it proves hes dumb. Simple as that for me.
Like you said, 11 years is a long time, and naturally provides many chances to prove reform in order to regain credibility. He dug the hole, maybe 11 years from now he will poke his head above ground again in this car community.