Tony Stewart

[JohnMickish]

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GO SMOKE!!! At least he is honest about what happened!!! Unlike all the other girls out there that make up

dump

to make them look like an angel, like um let me see....OH YEAH WONDERBOY, its so unlike him to not take the blame for something, oh thats right he never does, what was I thinking!!!

The race I was watching Gordon said that has half his fault. I don't know how you score things but that sure sounded like he took half the blame to me. Maybe perch's TV has to much rose tint in it?

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

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[Scenic]

As far as Kennseth goes in my opinion if you are going to play the game know what have to loose before you play. In the Gordon incident he indicated that Tony should have let him in? Why? It’s called racing and you don’t win by slowing down for everyone. Godon should have stayed out of the way.

I didn’t care for how Tony was driving by any means but the man can drive. What’s Nascar going to do? He already took his penalties, paid his price and still placed 5th. At least his car was legal!

[lawdog]

Kenseth didn't do a darn thing, that's what is so strange about it. Stewart is so arrogent he thinks the ONLY time he gets squirelly is if its someone else's fault. Matt wasn't even that close to him when he got sideways in turn 2 and about wrecked it and he didn't swerve at him or anything. Even the drivers on Inside Nextel Cup last night said the same thing...

As for legal cars, there probably was never a more legal car winning Daytona. They stripped that 48 down to the bolts in post race inspection trying to find something illegal and it passed with flying colors!

[PERCHJR]

Good come back DOG!!! I just have to defend my guys!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[fishinchicks]

We were sitting in turn 2, and had our scanners flipped to Stewart not long after he and Gordon got into it. He was pretty mad and "venting" to his crew chief who was trying to calm him down. He may be faster when he is mad, but not really smarter.

[Uncle Bill]

As a true Kenseth fan, I seen the blatant, insulting, and

unprovoked shove given to the Champ by the lowly "smoke".

I'll refer to him as "joke" ?

I don't believe "joke" should face any further penalties.

I believe what comes around, goes around.

Smart drivers like Matt have long memories.

I believe "joke" will get what he's got coming to him. Mabey this

Sunday, mabey not til the next, or the one after, but "joke"

will get his due. And I'll be grinning ear to ear.

Go #17 !!

[JohnMickish]

I was thinking the same thing. If I where Kenseth I'd wait till Brickyard (maybe not this year, but sometime when "joke" had another good car there) or another Daytona 500 race. If done right so nobody else gets involved it would be justice but if any other cars get wrecked it would be a really stupid thing by Kenseth.

[Uncle Bill]

Does'nt necessarily have to be Kenseth

that wrecks him either.

[duckbuster]

Jeff be careful there. If racers don't slow down on the big tracks there would be wrecks on nearly every lap. Gees , I think it was McMurray who blocked Labonte in like lap 35. I dislike the blocking bull@#$% but it is what it is. I would really have a tough time getting of the gas if I had a run on someone and he blocked me. I would probably do what you are saying there Jeff and not slow down.

Tony should have let Jeff in in that situation for 2 reason. First, Jeff was sliding up the track not intentionally & Second, it was very early in a 500 mile race.

[Cyberfish]

Yikes, I hope not this weekend! Matt is on my fantasy team and dont want him tangling with mr road rage! Go 17!!!

[PERCHJR]

That would be real smart of Matt huh, Matt is a better driver than that to pay Tony back, I hope anyways??? Suspose CASHCAR will miss that contact on the track, that would be very stupid of Matt to do!!!I have nothing against Matt, but I think that something between SMOKE and him had to happen at Daytona for SMOKE to do what he did!!!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD FISHING!!!

[lawdog]

Matt will get him, it won't probably be now though...

Racers have long memories and they know when they can act on them. Most guys (Stewart of course seems to be the exception) are smart enough to not do it on a superspeedway where its so dangerous.

[Cyberfish]

Hmmm,good point. I think I will not have Matt or Tony on my team for bristol!

[Cyberfish]

Uh oh, looks like Matt is still mad! and only qualified 31st! Mabye I better switch to Biffle!

From Thatsracindotcom:

NASCAR California pole goes to Kurt BuschKenseth says hard feelings remain from trouble with Stewart at DaytonaBy DAVID POOLEThe Charlotte ObserverFONTANA, Calif. - For a guy once depicted on a television commercial as a robot, Matt Kenseth's chili certainly was running hot on Sunday in the Daytona 500.

"It was frustrating and disappointing," Kenseth said on Friday at California Speedway, where Kurt Busch won the pole for Sunday's Auto Club 500 with a speed of 187.086. "I just thought it was unnecessary."

Kenseth, who qualified 31st with a lap at 182.588 mph on Friday, said he still has hard feelings about what happened between himself and Tony Stewart in last week's race.

"I'm just glad nobody hit me," Kenseth said of his wild ride back across the track through traffic after Stewart moved him over into the grass at the Turn 3 end of the backstretch, a move that drew an "aggressive driving" penalty for Stewart.

"That was the best speedway car I've ever had and it was our best shot of winning the Daytona 500," Kenseth said. "When you grow up in stock car racing, winning the Daytona 500 is your dream, and I felt like I had that taken away from me unfairly.

"It would be kind of like Tony running the Indy 500 and me taking him out for no reason. How mad would he be?"

Pretty mad, and so was Kenseth after the Lap 107 incident in which Stewart would later say he was retaliating for a bump from Kenseth earlier in Sunday's race.

As their cars came off pit road, Kenseth pulled alongside Stewart's No. 20 Chevrolet and gestured in anger toward the reigning Nextel Cup champion.

That drew Kenseth a penalty of his own, and while Kenseth stayed on the track as he tried to figure out what he was being sanctioned for, NASCAR officials pulled his scorecard for a lap.

"I didn't pull up next to Tony to mess up his car or do anything crazy,"

Kenseth said. "I just wanted to show my displeasure a little bit and ask what was going on. I just put my hand out, but you can't talk through race cars, so it was kind of silly.

"We had some radio troubles and between all of that I didn't know I was supposed to do a pass through. ...I just didn't know what it was for. And I probably wasn't as worried about it because I thought our car was torn up worse than it was. I cost us a little bit."

Despite his adventures in the 500, Stewart finished fifth while Kenseth rallied to finish 15th. Kenseth said he's ready to put last week behind him, not because he's over it but because he doesn't know what good it'd do for him to try to retaliate.

"I still have bad feelings, it would be hard not to," Kenseth said. "But I am not going to race him differently or hold a grudge or do something silly. I am not going to waste any energy on retaliation or being mad at somebody or anything like that.

"I told the guys we had a winning effort at Daytona and we needed to come here with a winning attitude. There's nothing we can do to fix last week."

Kenseth said he hasn't talked with Stewart, who qualified 12th on Friday, about their run-ins at Daytona.

"I am sure we'll talk eventually," Kenseth said. "He just gets mad at stuff and I've never heard him say, 'I really messed up there.' I don't feel like I need to go talk to him because I don't feel like I was in the wrong. Obviously he does."

Busch, in just his second start as driver of the No. 2 Dodge for Penske Racing South, won his first pole since the final race of the 2004 season.

Greg Biffle, Busch's former teammate at Roush Racing, was second best at 186.186 mph, with Daytona 500 winner Jimmie Johnson third and Joe Gibbs Racing rookies J.J. Yeley and Denny Hamlin rounding out the top five.

Busch was driving an Intrepid, the model Dodge teams raced in '04 before switching to the Charger last year. So were Ryan Newman, who was 11th fastest, and Bobby Labonte