Tony Stewart shares my view on Saturday's race

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

CHARLOTTE, N.C. - Two-time champion Tony Stewart likened NASCAR to professional wrestling and accused it of using bogus caution flags to shape races in biting comments made on his weekly radio show.

Stewart’s appearance on his Tuesday night show was his first since skipping a post-race press conference in Phoenix. He dominated Saturday night’s race but lost after a late exchange of leads with winner Jeff Gordon. Stewart said he refused interviews to avoid bashing NASCAR after officials threw four cautions for debris on the track.

“It’s like playing God,” he said on his Sirius Satellite Radio program. “They can almost dictate the race instead of the drivers doing it. It’s happened too many times this year.”
Stewart, who said he was fighting a fever and left the two-hour show early, went on to say fans are complaining about debris cautions and NASCAR isn’t listening.

“I guess NASCAR thinks ’Hey, wrestling worked, and it was for the most part staged, so I guess it’s going to work in racing, too,”’ he said. “I can’t understand how long the fans are going to let NASCAR treat them like they’re stupid before the fans finally turn on NASCAR.

“I don’t know that they’ve run a fair race all year.”

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[beerlover]

I usually can't stand that sawed-off chubby spoiled little hothead, but he's dead right on this one. NASCAR is concentrating WAY too much about TV ratings and personalities and not enough on quality racing. But you look at how the sport has grown over the last 10 years at the same time the racing has degraded and the amount of money that is being made and you can't really blame them, I guess. It's getting downright hard to be a fan and watch any more.

 

[Mikeinsmd]

I usually can't stand that sawed-off chubby spoiled little hothead, but he's dead right on this one. NASCAR is concentrating WAY too much about TV ratings and personalities and not enough on quality racing. But you look at how the sport has grown over the last 10 years at the same time the racing has degraded and the amount of money that is being made and you can't really blame them, I guess. It's getting downright hard to be a fan and watch any more.

He's not "sawed off", he's short. He's not chubby (anymore). He took anger management & it worked. He didn't beat up Mike Helton after the race.

 

[Dutch6]

He's not "sawed off", he's short. He's not chubby (anymore). He took anger management & it worked. He didn't beat up Mike Helton after the race.

No, he didn't beat him up but maybe he should have.

 

[Softballkid]

I wish he woulda cracked montoya

 

[Dupontster]

Tony got a spankin, Tony got a spankin, Look Here
Felix sure put da bad mouth on him....
"He's a spoiled little brat," rival car owner Felix Sabates said. "NASCAR should suspend him - park him for the rest of year. Irresponsible comments like that affect the entire sport. If he was my driver, I would have fired him on the spot.
"If he wasn't driving a race car, he'd be pumping gas at a service station because his personality wouldn't get him hired anywhere else."
And Tony Said:
"It's a little tender for me to sit down right now," Stewart deadpanned after the meeting."

 

[AndyMarquisLIVE]

Man, NASCAR sure does hate free speech.

I wonder where this rule was written. Invisible ink? Pencil?

NASCAR rulebook: Microsoft Word document. Most frequently used key: Backspace.