Tony Stewart Fined

[Mr. Ford95]

for not showing at the postrace drivers interview for the top 3 finishers last week. $10K and probation for the rest of the year. Guess that is better than getting fined $100K for letting his emotions run wild during the interview. He has also been invited and has accepted to be in the Control Tower at Richmond next Friday night for the Busch Race after his comments towards NASCAR on his radio show. Tony and the "Oval Office" had a long talk this morning at 'Dega over his comments.

I don't like Tony, but what he did at Phoenix was funny as heck. He could have easily showed up, said "No comment" to everything asked and left. His comments were great. For the most part, he's right on. At Richmond a few years ago, a tire carcass sat on the bottom groove for 6 laps before a caution was thrown, only after Junior clipped it and threw it up into the middle groove. Everyone from Turn 1 to Turn 3 could see it except for Nascar. Or let's throw a caution without having our track watchers use their binoculars to see what it is first.

[yoopr]

It wasn't just him not showing up-He lipped off at NASCAR and there are unwritten rules that he knew and broke.

[Mr. Ford95]

Jim Hunter said the mouthing off was unrelated to the fine. Hunter also said, they could have fined him under "Actions detrimental to NASCAR" for his comments on his radio show but chose not to. Had NASCAR done that, they would have gotten a huge backlash for trying to silence a person's freedom of speech.

Tony could careless about the fine, said it was cheaper than going and saying some stuff that would have made the fine much larger. Also said that he was unaware of the mandatory postrace media room interview. I could believe that but he has to personally sign the race entry form. One would think that after 5 years, he would have recognized that little part on the form that says it is mandatory.

[WildK9]

One of the main reasons I like him. If I were a race car driver, I would probably be very similar to him. Love his sarcasm and his racing, sometimes don't like his whining, although he seldom does that. He's not the most loved, but he doesn't care who hears what he says. He's real, not some pretty boy they groomed for tv. :P

[Smokeeater]

Amen K9, #20 is the man. He is not your typical cookie cutter, politically correct yes man. He tells it the way it is.