Friday, July 24, 2009

Kyle Busch. Tony Stewart. Who ya got?

Geez, I go out of town for two minutes and the entire sport goes crazy! Crazy, I say! Well, at least Kyle Busch. Let's start with the impetus for the latest from The D00D, the wreck at the end of the Daytona race last weekend:

However, on Thursday, Kyle wasn't exactly in a forgiving mood: "I think NASCAR can take a step in looking at it, and if the second-place driver bumps the leader, then black-flag (him)," he said. "He doesn't get the win."

Stewart took a more diplomatic route -- and yes, that may be the first time in human history that those words have been written in that order -- and refused to fire back. He said he and Kyle had talked for half an hour on the phone earlier in the week, but it certainly didn't appear that any differences had been patched up, at least from Kyle's perspective. Still, Stewart tried to appear cool: "Nobody wants what happened on the last lap to happen," Stewart said. "Nobody wants to be in that situation because we all respect each other as drivers so much."

So, your take on Busch's latest blowup? Does he have a point? Or is he just stealing Tony's crown as the mouth of NASCAR?

Busch says Stewart "dumped him" at Daytona [AP via Yahoo! Sports]

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