Sometimes Tony Stewart is a bummer! During his interview he was saying Denny was young and impatient and so on, well I know if I was following my teammate in the early stages of a race like that, I would have lifted and gave my teammate a little room. I guessing Joe Gibbs was not very impressed when 2 of his cars were wrecking each other, and he had to be even more upset when Tony was running his mouth about a teammate. Isn’t it funny how when ever Smoke is involved in a wreck he says the other driver is to blame and is an idiot…..
I better watch out, Smoke might bust into the announcers booth and beat me up!
DW out

Stewart and Hamlin? Yet another example on exactly why NASCAR IS NOT a team sport.

And there's nothing wrong with it being an individual sport. However, for those of you who say it's a team sport first... Get a clue!

I partially agree with Fred, BUT, how often do you see a single car team win a race. The two leading series winners are team mates. I,m thinking a driver is not getting tires and taking fuel in under 14 seconds without a team.

hey DW have you ever been in a wreck that was your fault, of course not.

Cale Yarborough and Allison cause all my wrecks!

DW

You didn't know about the "wide open" coverage ? Where have you been ? TNT has been touting that since before their 6 weeks started !

If they've been "touting it since before their 6 weeks started," then why has it taken so long to do it? Wasn't Daytona the first race that they actually did that?

If your car is driving that bad, pull over and let someone else lead the race. That tore up two real good cars. " Tony Stewart "

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Tony tore up 2 good race cars not Hamlin. If Stewart didn’t like being behind Hamlin he should have PASSED him not run him over. There was wide open track on the outside, he could have pulled out and drove clean around Hamlin if he was going faster.

Yes your right but that's racing, it's not always team racing. He could have passed I guess but we are not sitting in the drivers seat are we. It's a shame that this happened but let's move on.

what kind of driver pulls over?

Hamlin had a bad handling car, but some communication between the 2 teams may have made a difference. Both were way too impatient so early on.At least the situation didn't get as out of control as the end of the Indy car race did.

The qualifying rule's got to go. What a slap in the face to the guys who work so hard to set the cars up. How discouraging was that? Nascar could have found the time to qualify 14 more cars.

Don't be so hard on Kyle, guys. He's really a nice kid. Ask the people who raced him in the OPS 250.

Never loosing your cool, that's all you, right, DW?

The Top 35 rule is not going away. Ever.

First of all, it would kill the very people you are trying to help. How on earth are second tier teams or third/fourth cars in top efforts going to secure 36 race sponsorship deals if they might not make a dozen or so races? Put it this way- how many great sponsorship deals are enjoyed by drivers not guaranteed a spot every Sunday? Only those subsidized by Toyota.

The ONLY reason guys like Jeff Green, Sterling Marlin, Elliott Sadler, Robby Gordon have full time sponsored rides is their sponsors know they’ll be in the show. Do you really think Interstate Battery, Crown Royal etc. are willing to pony up the cost if they might not be in a dozen races? Those drivers might get race-by-race deals- but that only widens the gap between DEI, Hendricks, etc. and the rest.

There might be 20 good and 20 decent sponsors now- that number becomes 20 and 5 the day the Top 25 rule goes away. And the sport needs less Johnny Sauter race-to-race teams, not more.

Second, put an emphasis on qualifying- and that is what you’ll get. You’ll have cars and engines wound so tight- designed to run two laps real fast. And if you go back to let teams swap out engines after qualifying- well, we’re back to advantage super teams all over again.

The Top 35 rule protects the Tony Raines from the Dale Jarretts and Michael Waltrips- marginal teams with marginal sponsors- not the other way around. Moving to protecting the Top 15 in points protects Jeff Gordon and Dale Jr at the expense of Scott Riggs

If the other 14 cars could have qualify I wonder what the out come of the race would have been? Yes the Qualifying rule must go.

i think frank nailed this one. I hate to see a B team that was faster than an A team go home, but the rule ensures the lower budget teams get sponsors. The top teams are going to qualify 99 percent of the time. It hurts the teams that show up for 5 or 6 races a year. But what about Tony Raines? This team shows up every week and races, not for a win but for a paycheck. Should they go home because they had one bad day? Lets say you show up to work late one morning and they gave your job to a new guy that got there before you. No pay today but better luck tomorrow.

Hamlin should have just gotten out of Smoke's way if his car was handling bad. You can only run up front at Daytona, if your car is good. Obviously Tony's car was better-as a team, Hamlin's spotter should have seen this and had the faster car lead the thing.