I hope that Stewart will just keep pushing his unique voice, because the more he does, the more he’ll push back at that bogus “fine & probation for not making the mandatory appearance” penalty, and perhaps also eventually force NASCAR/ISC back into its own corner. (Or, in whatever other dark space in the sport they’ll naturally consume, anyway, grin …)
No, seriously. You know that corner — the one wherein they actually say that they were penalizing Stewart for the appearance deal vs. what the penalty was really for — and, yup … it was for his radio show comments no matter how they try to deny it. (Anyone else remember Pemberton denying that the COT foam was actually a problem a few weeks ago? “It’s all just speculation ..” Yeah, lol … ok, ya’ idiot.)
Smoke spoke the truth about debris cautions … b.s. debris cautions … NASCAR/ISC playing God and able to dictate the outcome of races even more than the drivers … calling into question the ‘integrity’ of NASCAR/ISC, when that’s such a damned misnomer to anyone with a speed-limit-sized IQ anyway … sigh … etc. As if Smoke didn’t say what we’ve all been saying … ugh!
A week after being reprimanded for comments comparing NASCAR to professional wrestling, two-time Nextel Cup champion Tony Stewart said Wednesday he’ll continue to speak his mind. Appearing at a media day promoting next month’s Citizens Bank 400 at Michigan International Speedway, Stewart said his only regret last week wasn’t going to NASCAR officials before airing the comments on his Sirius Satellite radio program. Stewart characterized the past two weeks as long, but said he got the answers he was looking for in a meeting with NASCAR officials following his comments. “One of my biggest faults is I can’t say no and I don’t know how to be politically correct,” said Stewart, who referred to himself Wednesday as the “poster child for doing stupid things in NASCAR.”
That, lol, is Smoke being pc … or, about as pc as he’s ever going to get, I hope.
No stranger to controversy, Stewart angered NASCAR officials when he accused NASCAR of using bogus debris cautions to orchestrate the outcome of races. Although not fined for his comments, Stewart was placed on probation for the remainder of the season.
“I can assure you, Tony Stewart knows where he stands with NASCAR right now,” [NASCAR/ISC] spokesman Jim Hunter said following the meeting.
Yeah, we’re sure Smoke knew where he (and his team/sponsors) stood after that meeting, too, or else you wouldn’t have held his car in his hauler until he met with you at 6am on Friday morning, telling him he’d better make nice — real nice — with the media about all of it before you laid down the penalty, asshole. Keeping in mind — in Smoke’s mind during that press conference — just how severe your penalty “might” be for Joe Gibbs Racing/Home Depot (and others) if he didn’t say what you “suggested” he say to the world … ahem.
Let’s see … if he’d have said anything other than what he did, he could’ve kissed his team and sponsorship responsibilities good-bye — for the weekend, or perhaps the season (axe him out of points and/or a race or two, and his chase hopes are screwed). So, if he didn’t shut the hell up … hmmm … as Stewart had already intimated: NASCAR/ISC is “God”, and if you don’t kiss their ass, they’ll kiss it good-bye.
On Wednesday, Stewart said his comments represented the views of many of his fellow drivers who don’t want to voice their opinions in fear of being called in by NASCAR officials.
“It’s hard to sit there in the heat of the moment,” Stewart said. “We don’t just drive around for 500 miles and get out and say, ‘Hey, that was great.’ “It’s a little more personal than that, it’s a little more passionate than that and it’s a lot more heated than that. It leads to not always looking at the consequences of how it’s going to affect other people and the sanctioning body and the sponsors when you say something.” Stewart, sixth in the Nextel Cup points standings, said NASCAR officials never instructed him to be more politically correct in his comments.
LOL … no … but I’m pretty sure that they instructed him to be more NASCAR/ISC-Correct …
[Stewart] said he’ll continue to voice his opinions despite jabs from fellow drivers who took exception with Stewart’s tendency to find controversy.”
We’ll just have to wonder why those ‘fellow drivers took exception’ … lol
(The criticism) doesn’t bother me - I can be politically correct like everybody else and then we’ll listen to everybody gripe like they did a couple of years ago,” Stewart said. “Everybody complained about how vanilla I was and how they didn’t like it. Obviously, either way, I can’t win and I can’t make everybody happy so I might as well do it my way.” Full Story
Don’t ever stop doin’ it your way, Smoke.
As to all of those drivers who say, ‘if you don’t like NASCAR/ISC rules, go race in another series’? grin … just how many of them could? (Oh, but there’s also ‘could’, and there’s ‘win’ and/or ‘win championships in’ to be considered, long as we’re askin’ the general question …)
Stewart not only could … but he probably wouldn’t want to, because he already has.
NASCAR/ISC might do well to remember that.
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