Joe Gibbs Racing's Denny Hamlin says he's trying to put his crash with teammate Tony Stewart in Saturday night's Pepsi 400 behind him and focusing on the future for both teams.
Despite the incident at Daytona, Hamlin, for his part, didn't assign blame or question his teammate following the incident or since. (He didn't have to, Stewart kept it alive himself!)
Hamlin noted: "[It] doesn't really matter how or why it happened, and there is no use pointing fingers. It's behind us now, we'll get back to do what this team does best, run consistently each weekend."
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Showing posts with label On Track Incident. Show all posts
Showing posts with label On Track Incident. Show all posts
Friday, July 13, 2007
Saturday, July 7, 2007
Stewart and Hamlin at Daytona
With Denny Hamlin leading the pack for 10 laps, on lap 14 of the race, it looked like Tony Stewart got a run on Denny and in passing him, snagged his fender and into the wall they both went, taking them both out of contention.
In ensuing interviews, Tony Stewart railed on Denny saying "The 11 car decided to stop in turn 4 in front of 42 other cars. He tried wrecking me earlier this week and finished us off tonight. Hamlin doesn’t know the definition of team right now."
In a subsequent interview with Denny Hamlin, Denny said he wasn't doing anything different than any other lap, as he was getting tighter as the laps went on.
So Tony Stewart, yet again, drives through another car with tire issues, (Hey Denny, call David Gilliland... you can be in the same club!!), and blames the other guy. Dude, I know you're good, but you have got to put a restrictor sole on your driving shoe and quit driving through people.
But then, it's never his fault, is it?
UPDATE: Here's the NASCAR.com article about the incident: nascar
In ensuing interviews, Tony Stewart railed on Denny saying "The 11 car decided to stop in turn 4 in front of 42 other cars. He tried wrecking me earlier this week and finished us off tonight. Hamlin doesn’t know the definition of team right now."
In a subsequent interview with Denny Hamlin, Denny said he wasn't doing anything different than any other lap, as he was getting tighter as the laps went on.
So Tony Stewart, yet again, drives through another car with tire issues, (Hey Denny, call David Gilliland... you can be in the same club!!), and blames the other guy. Dude, I know you're good, but you have got to put a restrictor sole on your driving shoe and quit driving through people.
But then, it's never his fault, is it?
UPDATE: Here's the NASCAR.com article about the incident: nascar
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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.
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.
Tuesday, June 5, 2007
Stewart on Busch
"There are only a couple bad apples out there, and he's one of them," Stewart said.
So after their little get together which was angst, or just a racing deal, it is what it was.
I saw Busch come up on Biffle and clip his front bumper, then pass Stewart, and come sliding up on Stewarts front bumper, but Stewart didn't back off, or as he likes to say, have any give and take. Then I also watched Stewart finish off Busch's slide by driving through his right rear quarter panel. So much for quit racing at the yellow!!
Stewart is big on the "give and take" issue, but he also talks about racing people as they race him. One cannot have both tactics. That is a dichotomy of principals. It seems he was racing Kurt as Kurt was racing him, or was he. I don't know.
But I do know this: One should not use their car to make a point or risk another drivers pit crew doing such. With that said, I take my leave of this issue, and leave you a link to an article.
Sportingnews.com
So after their little get together which was angst, or just a racing deal, it is what it was.
I saw Busch come up on Biffle and clip his front bumper, then pass Stewart, and come sliding up on Stewarts front bumper, but Stewart didn't back off, or as he likes to say, have any give and take. Then I also watched Stewart finish off Busch's slide by driving through his right rear quarter panel. So much for quit racing at the yellow!!
Stewart is big on the "give and take" issue, but he also talks about racing people as they race him. One cannot have both tactics. That is a dichotomy of principals. It seems he was racing Kurt as Kurt was racing him, or was he. I don't know.
But I do know this: One should not use their car to make a point or risk another drivers pit crew doing such. With that said, I take my leave of this issue, and leave you a link to an article.
Sportingnews.com
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