Stewart upset with Kyle Busch...again!

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

Stewart upset with Kyle Busch...again!

richard savage · Car Owner

I seem to remember a ROOKIE and secound year driver named TONY that had more drivers that DID'NT like him so much either. Ya the kid might be a little rough at times, but we all have been there. GET OVER IT. Ya notice every week he's cry-en about something? Richie.

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

I'm not a big fan of the Busch brothers, or a diehard Tony Stewart fan of any kind either but I respect their talent, where all of them came from, and how hard they worked to get where they are. But I couldn't agree more with you Rich about Stewart. Enough is enough every week it's something or somebody that he is complaining about. The funniest part to me is, he jumps all over the media for stirring up controversey about everything that the drivers say, but he knows damn well as soon as he says something controversial the media will run with it.

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

From Frontstretch.com:

Frontstretch Top Ten: Top Ten Things Tony Stewart Will be Doing This Week
Jeff Meyer · Wednesday March 15, 2006

10. Setting fire to any and all shrubbery on his property.

9. Changing his favorite cereal from Frosted Flakes to Post Toasties.

8. Chuckling to himself every time he muses…”That little punk drives like a frosted flake.”

7. Work on a device to “bleed” into the other team’s radios so he can remind them he is the reigning champ and to get out of his way.

6. Sneak into the Hendrick garage and paint the roof flaps on the No. 5 car to look like ears for a good laugh the next time Kyle spins.

5. “Borrow” Kyle’s cell phone and call Jimmy Spencer at 3 a.m. and say, “You know, my motor coach may not be called the ‘Mayflower’, but your wife sure came across in it!”

4. Paint all his garage doors to resemble the rear ends of various teams’ cars so all he has to do is push a button and the ‘magically’ vanish, letting him through.

3. Regret the fact that he let Mike Helton in front of him at the driver’s buffet. (And he thought Kyle was holding him up!)

2. Point out Kyle’s motor coach to Jimmy Spencer.

1. Give the No. 20 car a Maricopa County sheriff’s department paint scheme. Figures that even if Kyle won’t pull over, it will sure scare the hell out of big brother Kurt!

spdracer19 · Pick-um contest administrator

LOL, there is a few good ones in that list.

I think Tony is having some issues and needs some meds or something. He seemed fine last year butout of control this year and I am surpirsed Joe Gibbs hasn't taken care of it, although maybe he is and we don't know.

-- Edited by spdracer19 at 16:59, 2006-03-17

openwheelracer · Admin/Mod/Eyewitness

From Jayski.com:

Kyle and Stewart talk..again: Behind the Hauler Talk with Kyle Busch, #5 Kellogg's Chevy: Atlanta Motor Speedway:
WHAT'S THE SITUATION BETWEEN YOU AND TONY STEWART RIGHT NOW?
"I called him this week. We talked a little bit on the phone. It was a good conversation. A civil one. We just both talked about what I aggravated him with last week at Las Vegas and we both decided to elect on moving along and coming here to Atlanta and seeing how we can race out the rest of the year."
WELL, WHAT WAS THE PROBLEM?
"It's like he said. It wasn't quite 80 laps to go. It was more like 65. But I was holding him up a little bit. I was trying to preserve my race car and my position on the race track for the last pit stop. A lot of these guys say you don't race until after the last pit stop, but you'd rather come into the pits third for the last pit stop and have a chance to get out leading than come in eighth and only be able to get out third. So I was trying to preserve my position a little bit and try to get a better spot for my guys to have an easier job on pit road."
DID TONY STEWART GIVE YOU ANY ADVICE THAT WAS HELPFUL?
"Oh, just trying to discuss how to race and how you race the race track. You'll see this weekend that this place definitely won't be anywhere near what Las Vegas was. At this place, you've got so many different grooves. You can run all over this place. The race track is old and aged. You have to race the race track here. It's worse than Darlington almost. It's a pretty bad place where you're not going to see a whole lot of side-by-side and bumper-tagging."
DOES TONY STEWART UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM?
"He did and he didn't. He had a sense of yeah, okay that makes sense. But still, I don't care. He's in his race car trying to run his race and I'm in my race car trying to run my race. Sometimes, conflicts connect and you have that."
DID YOU COME AROUND TO HIS WAY OF THINKING OR DO YOU STILL BELIEVE THAT YOU WERE IN THE RIGHT?
"There are a bunch of different scenerios. If you look at a 400 lap say at Dover, you're going to let people go for probably 300 laps or so and then in the last 100, you're not because you've got to plan yourself for your last pit stop. And then you've got to get out of the last pit stop and race to the end. It's different situations everywhere you go. I saw his point, but I also saw my point as well."
DO YOU THINK YOU DID ANYTHING WRONG?
"To answer your question in the fullest extent, I didn't do anything wrong. I was just racing my own race; racing my own race car."
WHAT WOULD YOU SAY IS YOUR RELATIONSHIP WITH TONY STEWART RIGHT NOW..ON THE TRACK?
"On the track? Probably not very good. But as far as off the race track, once he takes his helmet off, he's a completely different person. You're able to talk to him and be receptive of him. It's good to be able to have that relationship off the race track, I guess."(in part from the GM Racing PR)(3-17-2006)