NASCAR - It's all about Tony

I admittedly watched about half of the Pocono race yesterday. While I like the long, high-speed tracks, Pocono races are...boring. Just like California.

Anyway, I some how missed the hoo-ha between Tony Stewart, Clint Bowyer and Carl Edwards. Damn. But I'm reading all about it today and I'm hoping that someone finally lands a fist in Tony Stewart's face. I really am. Tony Stewart is one of the most talented drivers in all of motorsports. He can drive the wheels off anything that moves. But on the track? He's a dick. Plain and simple.

Since becoming the series "bad boy" back in 2003, Stewart made an effort to clean up his image as an obnoxious, rage-filled douchebag. He certainly fooled racing fans, myself included. He returned to form before the checkered flag dropped at this year's Daytona 500. We all saw how he put Matt Kenseth into the infield and then into the wall at 180 mph. Luckily, he didn't take out half the field and no one was hurt. Why Kenseth didn't slam him into the wall, I don't know. I guess he has good self-restraint.

We saw petty Stewart pull the same crap again a few weeks later with Jeff Gordon in Dover and with Boris Said in Sonoma. Apparently, someone annointed Tony Stewart as track policeman - he now determines who should move out of his way and when.

Back to Daytona, I was furious watching the race as NASCAR didn't do a damn thing after Stewart wrecked Kenseth. After that hypocrite whined about someone dying on the track, he nearly killed a competitor and NASCAR did shit. They should have made him park his car immediately. And that's what they should have done Sunday at Pocono. A one lap penalty? Please. Will someone in the NASCAR hauler find a set of balls and put Stewart in a much-needed time out? Maybe we need him to injure or kill another racer before you folks finally wise up.

Sadly, this crap put a dominating win by an up-and-coming superstar on the back burner. Denny Hamlin has somehow mastered Pocono and schooled everyone in sight. Way to go kid. And he's about as humble a racer as you could want. Maybe if he wasn't Stewart's teammate, he'd get out of his car and punch Smoke in the jaw for putting another black mark on an otherwise great race for him.