#20 Home Depot team not allowed to unload car, Stewart to NASCAR hauler?
Quote selected text Published April 27th, 2007 in NASCAR News
UPDATE BELOW:
Sources are informing us that the #20 Home Depot team has not been allowed to unload its Nextel Cup Chevy at Talladega until Tony Stewart meets with NASCAR at the NASCAR hauler.
Stewart make several strong accusations that NASCAR fixes its races.
Word is that NASCAR is fuming over Stewart’s remarks.
UPDATE:
Stewart was in the NASCAR trailer this morning at Talladega with NASCAR President Mike Helton upwards of 40 minutes.
NASCAR vice president was not immediately available for comment Friday morning.
NASCAR is expected to address Stewart’s actions sometime Friday, sources said.
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Wow.
This should be good.
Like it or not, Stewart’s not going to win in a standoff with NASCAR. Keeping Tony’s Chevy in the garage is NASCAR’s way of telling him he better shape up or he’s out.
We’re not saying we side with NASCAR. Just saying that NASCAR is a big gorilla!
Stay tuned!
This is all getting completely out of hand. Let the man fume and leave it alone. I guess they’re gonna want him to take anger management classes again.
Interesting!
Last time I checked this was the US of A and freedom of speech
was one of our rights…NASCAR needs to lay off before they
end up losing even more fans.
WOW…so he got mad?! It happens. This is his career, anyone with a desk job for a career has vented about the boss or “corporate”. His job requires him to be in the public eye so he’s gotta deal with this…geez…just leave the man alone, everyone does it!!!!!
Good job nascar, way to be FAIR!
If you want to talk to Tony then do it, but let his team take the car out and work on it like everyone else’s team is doing.
This is why im not watching nascar as much as i used to.
Don’t get me wrong, its a good sport. You don’t hear about the drivers going around getting drunk and doing drugs and raping some girl like in other sports.
The drivers are REAL role models!
I just wish the nascar officials would be good role models and stop cheating.
That’s my opinion
-Chris
If Tony thinks races are predetermined and that NASCAR is out to get him,
what’s his reasoning for winning the races he has? He needs to
just quit his whining and earn his paycheck already. NASCAR wouldn’t
cease to exist if he quits, contrary to what he believes.
Do we need anymore proof that Nascar is a soap opera?
They have interferred in races for decades and now someone speaks out.
Boohoo Nascar, your losing popularity anyway. Recent reader polls show over half of the readers believe Nascar fixes races, so, why hide it?
If a driver thinks that the races are fixed, it has to make people think about things more. NASCAR should let him race and if NASCAR is mad at him for speaking out loud I am sure that they will fix the matter on the track just like he claims. So let us just see how many wins Tony “mouth”,”can’t pass him, crash him”, Stewart can generate this season.
Why is Tony being singled out, both jj and jeff complained of phantom cautions at California and the fans and the media have been complaining about it. Is it because like EF Hutton when Tony talks people really listen?
Wow this is something my husband has said for the last couple years & he has quit watching because of the “drama”. He is a big Jr. fan and he has made comments that when Jr is in front watch it because Nascar doesn’t want him to win. Then sure enough something will happen and one of the “popular” drivers will win. I won’t say who but I’m sure you know. I myself watch and this year I’m trying fantasy racing for the first time. I’m not doing so hot. Last week I really thought I had a chance then it went to h*ll quickly. Now this week I’m picking Jr because of where it is but I’m betting there will be some drama once again. To me as a fan it does look like they, the powers that be, do have a hand in it but what do I know.
The gestapo has once again spoken. Upon opening its mouth and letting drivel drip from its lips, NASCAR has once again showed why it is alienating its “main” fan base and suffering through a ratings decline. In a sport so “starving” and “pushy” for diversity, I think we need to rank fair play and equality first and foremost.
If they are so insistant on non qualified people driving in the cup series, just put then in a Hendrick car. After all, that appears to be the only team that exists right now right? NASCAR has lost its focus on fair play and competition in the bright lights of advertising green and greed. As a fan for 25 years, this year has been a very big disappointment. I am the guy that would dvr or tape each and every NASCAR event on the television. I am the guy who can remember when all the races were not analyzed or televised. I remember when only four or five teams could win each and every week [wait...that is how it is now huh]
Fixing races. Hmm, that one is a tough quagmire to get out of. Let us see NASCAR explain how one team can dominate yet hear talk of equality among not only the manufacturers but the team w/in its own faction. Or. tell me NASCAR, why are there more small debris and minor spins cautions then ever before.
I dont have to show you numbers. Anybody with the money you guys pocket can see the numbers to tell. I actually remember a time where a car or two would spin and no caution would fly…that the only time one flew is when a car could not move or the debris was in the racing lane and it was sharp or metal.
I live for a return to racing and not to a time where we follow the “car with the lights on it” [pace car].
Whether we like Tony or not is not really the issue. The issue here is why all of the sudden do we have elite drivers from all three of the big NASCAR series’ beginning to cry foul over one thing or another.
Diversity and equality is NASCAR’s newfound “creed” huh. Well, my friends, I think we lost it in translation somewhere.
Come on Brian France, ’spain it to us core main target audience you so long to keep happy. We are all eagerly waiting with anticipation for this answer.
I have a video tape from the mid-1990’s right after Dale Sr. crashed hard and was hurt in a race, I think it was his shoulder. The next race was at Watkins Glen and Dale had to start at the tail end of the field because he did not qualify because of the injury. They asked him if he could make it up to the front during the race. He replied, ” Maybe, if we happen to get a caution for Jacque DeBris.
Amazingly enough, on lap 5, there is a caution for debris and the ESPN announcers said they were unable to find any debris on the track anywhere. It was obvious they were ‘helping’ the biggest star they had at the time.
Hey I’m a Jeff Gordon fan but I agree with Tony. How
many times has it been late in the race and you see
those phantom cautions? It sux and it’s not good racing.
When Larry and Darryl say it’s going to come down to fule
milage, I tell my husband “there’s going to be a caution.”
Sure enough there’s a caution but where’s the debris?
I think the sanctioning body at NASCAR is getting to big
for the britches.
just read Nascar.com, Tony’s chaning his mind, go read it folks
hey araceerdude…during the mid 90’s when you siad that dale sr. wasn’t allowed to qualify…your wrong. he did qualify for watkins glen and won the pole. if you do remember, the shirt he wore the next day read…
“oh it hurts so good…on the pole at the glen”. dude he won the freakin pole. oh yeah, and i have one of those shirts. it was in 1995, get your facts straight. nascar hasn’t helped anybody more than the hendricks team…………….in the famous words of carlos mencia
DEE dee DEE.
Adam,
I have a video tape of the incident. Dale raced at Watkins Glen more then just one year, they race there evey year.
The tape doesn’t lie.
y is nascar so scared about what stewart is sayin??? if they not fixin stuff then they would just blow it off because they have nothing to hide. jus seems way too suspicious to me.
If I read one more thing about this being a free country and what about the first amendment and NASCAR is breaking laws by fining Tony because of the reasons behind giving him a ticket instead of a warning I might stop reading these comments.
The 1st amendment in regards to the workplace is not even nearly free speech. It is against the law to make sex jokes at work and obviously would get in trouble for putting a pin-up in your cubicle. Don Imus got fired, didn’t he?
Obviously, the First Amendment does not apply to private employers. A private employer could unilaterally adopt a speech code that would violate the First Amendment if a government body adopted it, and private employers routinely do so for all sorts of reasons. No one would blame an employer for firing an employee who suggested that goods produced by the employer were shoddy, for example. In fact employers who are liable for employees improper speech are likely to take a very expansionist view of what speech is prohibited since they have little to gain by allowing prohibited speech and have large potential liability for not censoring.
i think this is all crazy nascar is getting stupid about the rules and other things just let them be nascar drivers and bring back the old nascar days where you had hardly any rules and could get away with anything it was better back then thats how you got your fans excited. just leave tony and the others alone they all been through that before. and what is up with the bush brothers they are cheating or something they are always up front or on the pole every week you guys need to check in that instead of messing with the other drivers something fishy going on there.
Beth-The difference is, policies like that in work spaces are made
because when one’s words and actions, etc, impede someone else’s
rights, then YOU’RE breaking the law, and employers are indeed
liable for said employees.
Here’s the difference: Tony didn’t impede anyone else’s
Constitutional rights. Just because you, or any other fan, or Nascar
for that matter, didn’t like what he had to say, that doesn’t mean
he impeded your rights, that’s just a difference of opinion.