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NASCAR NEWS - Thursday, August 2, 2007
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Stewart docked 25 points and fined for bad language
By Official Release
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. - NASCAR announced Tuesday that Tony
Stewart has been fined $25,000 and penalized 25 Nextel
Cup Series driver championship points, as a result of
using inappropriate language during a post-race televised
interview following his victory Sunday at Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.
Stewart, driver of the No. 20 Chevrolet, retains his
fifth-place standing in the series points, with his total
points reduced to 2,599.
Stewart violated Section 12-4-A of the series rule book
(actions detrimental to stock car racing) by using the
inappropriate language.
"This one's for every one of those fans in the stands who
pull for me every week and take all the [expletive] from
everybody else," Stewart said to an ESPN reporter as he
began to walk away.
The curse spoiled ESPN's return to NASCAR. Stewart is
feuding with the network, which criticized him two weeks
ago for saying he was going to drink a case of beer to
celebrate his July 15 win in Chicago.
An ESPN analyst said later that Stewart was not a good
role model, and Stewart has been reluctant to do interviews
with its announcers. He participated in the post-race
interview at the finish line, but it ended after he used
the expletive.
He later criticized the network when asked if he would be
celebrating the Indy win with another case of beer.
"I don't want anybody from ESPN talking about how
irresponsible I am, even though it's legal to do everything
I did," he said. "Heaven forbid you actually have fun in
life."
In addition, Stewart's car owner, Joe Gibbs, has been
penalized 25 car owner championship points because of the
infraction.
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Junior still in last Chase spot despite failed engine
Newman, McMurray also take hits; Kurt Busch closes gap
By Mark Aumann, NASCAR.COM
INDIANAPOLIS - How will Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s engine failure
and resulting 34th-place finish Sunday affect his ability
to make this season's Chase for the Nextel Cup?
If history is any indication, it probably won't make much
difference. However, what may play a bigger role is the
fact that many of Junior's biggest rivals had similar
fates in Sunday's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.
Earnhardt was a contender for the victory for much of the
first half of the race, leading a career-high 33 laps at
the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and looking like the driver
with the best chance of beating Tony Stewart.
But as the No. 8 Chevrolet headed down Indy's famous
frontstretch, the engine let go in a telltale puff of
smoke, the white plume trailing behind the car as
Junior's good run ended after 136 laps.
"We broke the pulley off the front end of the motor," a
disappointed Junior said after pulling the car into the
garage. "The harmonic balance was still there and the
pulley's gone. I guess the motor broke. You have bad luck
every once in a while.
"We've had great motors all year long and I'm real proud
of the engine shop. That's what keeps us running up front
at places like this. We need the same power the rest of
the year."
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It was exactly opposite of the finish Earnhardt wanted --
and deserved -- on Sunday. Coming into Indianapolis with
a 30-point lead over Ryan Newman for the 12th and final
spot in the Chase, Junior left the Brickyard clinging to
a 13-point advantage over Kurt Busch, unofficially.
"You just got to take chances when you're trying to stay in
the Chase," Junior admitted. "We had a good car [Sunday].
The car was fast and I was really enjoying myself.
"We finished bad, and that is no good with the points deal.
I'm not happy about that, but there's nothing we can do
about it."
In 2005, a Lap 62 crash on a restart left Earnhardt 43rd
and dropped him from 14th to 16th in the standings,
effectively ending his chances at making the Chase. But
last season, a pit-road gamble gave him track position and
a sixth-place finish, which set off a run of four top-10
finishes in the next five races, solidifying his position
in the Chase.
Things could have been worse for Junior if not for similar
issues with many of the drivers directly below him in the
standings.
Newman qualified third and had hopes of gaining ground.
Instead, his No. 12 Dodge immediately suffered handling
issues and he quickly fell out of the top 10. Then on Lap
21, he slammed into the wall in Turn 4 and wound up 42nd.
"It's unfortunate," Newman said. "It was a pretty good lick
into the wall and it ended our day. It's devastating in
more than one way. It just depends on how far we have to
come back."
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Newman switched positions with Busch, and is now 59 points
behind Earnhardt with six races remaining before the cutoff.
Busch rallied over the last 60 laps to post an 11th-place
finish.
Jamie McMurray's dwindling Chase hopes -- and his No. 26
Ford -- took a hit on Sunday. McMurray was involved in a
multi-car accident on Lap 46 which included Jimmie Johnson,
Ricky Rudd, Scott Riggs, Bill Elliott and Carl Edwards.
McMurray said it was a matter of more than one car trying
to occupy the same space at the same time, especially on
a track as narrow and unforgiving as Indianapolis.
"You just don't realize how much you're sliding around
here," McMurray said. "You're pretty much already out of
control and when their momentum gets lost or someone makes
a fast move like that, it's hard not to run into each
other.
"I was trying to stay off of Jimmie and then, I think,
maybe [Riggs] or somebody got into me, which is not his
fault. It's just one of those deals where maybe [we were]
racing a little too hard, too early."
McMurray is still 15th in the standings, but now trails
Earnhardt by 113 points.
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