Gilliland and Stewart

Well, after lambasting Gilliland on his national radio show, we are wondering about Tony Stewart this year. Ok, maybe not, but when Stewart plowed Gilliland in a practice incident at Michigan, Stewart pointed out on his radio show on Sirius Satellite Radio that Gilliland was slowing down and gave no hand signal to indicate that.

After running into Gilliland, here is a quote from Stewart:
"... this is twice now that he's crashed us, and both times he doesn't have an answer for why. That's the part that scares you as a driver."

"He checks up at the end of the straightaway, and we run into him," a frustrated Stewart said. "It's really, really easy to see it. They've got two different cameras views of it, and he never stuck his hand out of the window [to signal he was going into the pits]. It really screwed up a really good racecar for [Sunday]. It didn't need to happen. It shouldn't happen." (NASCAR.com)

Are we sure that someone on much older tires needs to 'cue' everyone around him, especially people on fresh tires, that they are going slower?

Ricky Rudd points out that: The wreck "wasn't David's fault" and the "videotape clearly shows what happened and Tony screwed up." (latimes)

I think Tony keeps wanting it his way, as he plays Calvin-Ball* on the track. He makes noise that there needs to be give and take, but then doesn't give when others want to take, because conveniently, he is now racing them as they race him. I don't dislike Stewart, I just don't like his ever changing perspectives.

*Calvin-Ball: From Calvin and Hobbs. As Calvin and Hobbs would play a ball game between them, Calvin would constantly create new rules to support something that he just did to make a point.