I'm speechless, are you kidding me, two days ago Tony Stewart was on top of the world at Indianapolis after he won this second Brickyard 400 and during the post-race interview (picture on the right by Motorsport.com) that took place at the start/finish line just before climbing the fence under the flag stand and during that interview, he made a comment that included the words "bull s***".A couple of years ago Dale Jr. won at Talladega and during his post-race interview on NBC, he said in the same context "S***", he was fined $10,000 and docked 25 driver/owner points. Fast Forward to Sonoma last month, on the first lap going into turn 11, Kyle Petty was doing a in-car race announcer and he was involved in an accident and TNT put up his in-car audio during an instant replay and he said "What the f*** was that!" and while I agree he shouldn't have been no penalty, TNT should have, but no penalty. Now we come to the present, last weekend at Indy, Stewart says "Thanks to all my fans for putting up with the Bull S*** each week." and this race was on ESPN...
Penalty: NASCAR announced Tuesday that Tony Stewart has been fined $25,000 and penalized 25 Nextel Cup Series driver championship points and Gibbs docked 25 owner points, as a result of using inappropriate language during a post-race televised interview following his victory Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. (Read More...)
What, I still have an very hard-time understanding this one, the race was on cable namely ESPN and he just won the second biggest race on the season and this is his reward, please, this is wrong plan and simple... And yes I understand kids are watching, but still its a common word. Is it worth an appeal, most likely they won't waste there time.
I can defend and understand most of what NASCAR does including the Car of Tomorrow, but this NO. Tony Stewart didn't deserve this at all, he's a great racecar driver and a great personality in this sport period.
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A couple of readers on autoracingsport.com commented and raised a couple of good points, NASCAR is being consistant in the penalities on this language issue and on Tony Stewarts radio show, he know that he was going to get fined/docked and he understands that. I see the point and I agree on those levels, but bull s*** and s*** is not that big at least to me.
Bottom Line, I don't agree with this now and when dale Jr. was fined/docked I didn't agree with it then... and there's another difference, dale Jr. language was on live on NBC and Stewarts was on ESPN (cable), there's a difference, but it appears not... Still don't agree with it, but ok. See Yeah!
