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Gordon and Stewart; Well, just read what they have to say...
Topic Started: Jun 5 2005, 05:49 PM (441 Views)
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Gordon, Stewart trade barbs after early incident
By Ryan Smithson, NASCAR.COM
June 5, 2005
06:41 PM EDT (22:41 GMT)

DOVER, Del. -- It wasn't quite the magnitude of their memorable war of words in 2000 at Watkins Glen, but Dover came close.

Jeff Gordon wound up 39th at Dover after he was tapped by Tony Stewart on Lap 41, sending Gordon into Dover's unforgiving Turn 2 wall.

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Cue the accusations.

Gordon was upset that Stewart rubbed him so early in the race, but Stewart counterattacked, saying Gordon should have moved over and let him go.

"He just ran out of patience. I just think it's a little uncalled for to start something that fast," Gordon said. "I probably would have let him go once we got out there."

"He expects more patience out of everybody else, not himself," Stewart said. "I don't know what it is with him and Jimmie [Johnson] and Ryan [Newman], but it's a group of them that think the roads are named after them."

Stewart finished a lap down in 15th after he was caught speeding on the final pit stop. It was the first time Stewart had ever finished worse than 11th at the Monster Mile.

Gordon, was also caught up in wrecks at Richmond and Charlotte, now has a staggering five DNFs in the first 13 races this season. His car had heavy rear-end damage, forcing a third consecutive DNF for the first time since 1993.

But Gordon knows the incident could have been avoided, and he vowed to remember the day.

"All I can say that the next time Tony's holding me up, it won't be very long for him to be out of my way," Gordon said.

"That is fine," Stewart said. "We can get into a car-crashing war. It does not matter to me."

"Jeff is always whining like that. I mean, if somebody does something to Jeff, it's always their fault, that is just Jeff Gordon."

Stewart said he sees a trend in NASCAR where drivers have to constantly battle slower cars for position, and he cited Mark Martin and Jeff Burton as the two best examples of give-and-take.

"The best thing that can happen to NASCAR is Mark Martin giving a seminar on give-and-take," Stewart said. "It didn't used to be like this. Now you have got to race them to the death to get by them."


I'm gonna try really hard to not say something stupid. All I'll say is that the video tells the tale.
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I missed the wreck but I gotta say stewart has a very good point.
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Well, I will say this, he could go to the Mark Martin school for the taking part. :wink:
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Jun 5 2005, 05:01 PM
Well, I will say this, he could go to the Mark Martin school for the taking part. :wink:

so should the guys Tony mentioned above
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Maybe so, but that's being hypocritical and that's what I've hear in my sleep about the HMS drivers.
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Jun 5 2005, 05:07 PM
Maybe so, but that's being hypocritical and that's what I've hear in my sleep about the HMS drivers.

Stewart didnt claim he was perfect or that Gordon brake cheked him so...
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Never said he did. Just mighty aggressive that early in the race.
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Tony is right about Johnson and Gordon. About damn time somebody said something about it. Go Tony! :up:
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Jun 5 2005, 05:09 PM
Never said he did. Just mighty aggressive that early in the race.

I didnt see it but you are probably right.


and Tony was agressive during that race. example- with the 10 car he coulda slowed to avoid that incident but didnt.
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Jun 5 2005, 07:11 PM
Tony is right about Johnson and Gordon. About damn time somebody said something about it. Go Tony! :up:

Well I disagree with that. Jeff Gordon takes the blame a lot more than people give him credit for, simply because they don't like him. A la the Carl Edwards incident a few weeks back.
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DewCrew914
Jun 5 2005, 07:14 PM
Dale3815
Jun 5 2005, 07:11 PM
Tony is right about Johnson and Gordon. About damn time somebody said something about it. Go Tony! :up:

Well I disagree with that. Jeff Gordon takes the blame a lot more than people give him credit for, simply because they don't like him. A la the Carl Edwards incident a few weeks back.

I just don't like Jeff's comments towards Tony like that after he REFUSED to look at the replays or anything. Hell, he didnt really know if Tony meant to do it or not.
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Jun 5 2005, 06:11 PM
Tony is right about Johnson and Gordon. About damn time somebody said something about it. Go Tony! :up:

DW beat him to it...lol
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I don't remember him REFUSING to see the tape, but he lived it so he knows what happened.
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Jun 5 2005, 05:21 PM
I don't remember him REFUSING to see the tape, but he lived it so he knows what happened.

not true remember the incident with mike wallace at tally he thought one thing saw the replay then looked at the incident differently.
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Jun 5 2005, 06:22 PM
DewCrew914
Jun 5 2005, 05:21 PM
I don't remember him REFUSING to see the tape, but he lived it so he knows what happened.

not true remember the incident with mike wallace at tally he thought one thing saw the replay then looked at the incident differently.

well...he could have WATCHED stewart spin him...would it have helped any?


lol
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Jun 5 2005, 07:26 PM
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Jun 5 2005, 06:22 PM
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Jun 5 2005, 05:21 PM
I don't remember him REFUSING to see the tape, but he lived it so he knows what happened.

not true remember the incident with mike wallace at tally he thought one thing saw the replay then looked at the incident differently.

well...he could have WATCHED stewart spin him...would it have helped any?


lol

Well, seeing it at another angle makes a difference sometimes, jackass.
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Look, if I was a Tony Stewart fan, I'd be wetting myself with glee. Tony came out on the long end of the stick this time, I guess you'd say.
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Jun 5 2005, 05:27 PM
Look, if I was a Tony Stewart fan, I'd be wetting myself with glee. Tony came out on the long end of the stick this time, I guess you'd say.

that last thing I would want to be on was a long stick :sick:
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Better than getting the short end of the deal/ stick.
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Jun 5 2005, 06:30 PM
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Look, if I was a Tony Stewart fan, I'd be wetting myself with glee. Tony came out on the long end of the stick this time, I guess you'd say.

that last thing I would want to be on was a long stick :sick:

well, your young....you like em small, eh? :D
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it was obvious that the 24 was loose and had to check up i dont think tony was expecting gordon to be off the gas for as long as he was and he got in the back of him i highly doubt it was intentional.. avoidable?..maybe ... the thing that bothers me about it is if the roles were reversed it might have been mentioned 2 or 3 times during the race but it was tony so it was mentioned what seemed like evry 5 minutes, then when the 48 and 20 were bounceing off each other for 3 or 4 laps they took tight close racin and just showed the final contact over and over again when you could see they both hit each other equal amount of times and it was on from there for ol dw, the 20 never moved up off the bottom but somehow it was his fault that the 10 didnt have him cleared... i also think 90% of both their comments was just a game with the media the press eats it up when these 2 bump into each other and they both know it if you go back to the glen a few years ago htey were laughing and hanging out all weekend of the next race
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Then DW was running his mouth as well. If any other driver would've done the same shit today, he wouldn't have mentioned it.
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Everyone's wigging out about what Jeff said (and I'm sure the same about Tony), they seem to forget this is in the heat of the moment. Things will be a bit different by tomorrow.
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Jun 5 2005, 09:25 PM
Everyone's wigging out about what Jeff said (and I'm sure the same about Tony), they seem to forget this is in the heat of the moment. Things will be a bit different by tomorrow.

exactally
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I think it was Jimmie that said this a few weeks ago, but we only see them at their maddest, not when they go and apoligize.
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