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Old 03-25-2013, 03:34 PM
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I'm a Tony Stewart fan, but I have to say I didn't see anything wrong with Logano blocking Stewart with only a few laps to go.

Tony Stewart just blew his top, and I think it's a combination of the fact that Danica (his driver) ain't looking so pretty these past few races, and the fact Ryan Newman (his other driver) is not having a good season.

Stewart sees Joey Logano as a little rich kid, what he considers the "new blood" in the sport, where mommy and daddy fund your racing career. Tony Stewart had poor parents, who sacrificed a great deal to support Tony. Tony is the "old school" guy, working his way up through the various racing series, cutting his teeth on local dirt tracks. Joey Logano never worked a day in his life, and at the tender age of 18, they sat him in the Home Depot car, the very same car Tony Stewart made famous.

But here's the irony. Stewart hates it when these silver spoon kids get a ride in a top notch race car, yet didn't go through the pain and suffering that you're supposed to go through to make it to Sprint Cup. That's why he hates Logano. But Stewart did exactly that with Danica Patrick, allowing her to jump into a top notch Sprint Cup car without her paying her dues on short tracks, dirt tracks, or proving herself in Nationwide for a few years.

And seriously, Tony Stewart was pissed off about blocking down low? Wasn't Tony the one that was caused a wreck at the pre-season Daytona race, and he admitted he intentionally blocked Marcus Ambrose, causing a massive 6-car pileup?

And it was Tony Stewart, leading at Talladega on the last lap, that admitted he intentionally blocked a hard charging Michael Waltrip that triggered a massive 25-car pileup last fall, which forced Dale Earnhardt Jr. to miss two races because of concussion symptoms.

But....I still like Tony Stewart. Hard nosed, great driver, multi-talented, he reminds me of A.J. Foyt.

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