A lot going on at Bubba
1. The track took 2 inches of rain on Tues./Wed. that cancelled practice night. The track crew did hours and hours of work to get it race ready and hours during the shows to re work the surface for good racing. 2. Bubba had 38 sign in Thursday & Friday and WoO drivers won all three features.
3. I fully expected Tony to have some kind of learning curve and maybe he expected more from his team and himself. Add in he is the "Go to guy" for the All Stars officials and it is very hard to concentrate solely on the race car. Frustration is what Tony wanted to eliminate in his racing life, so a step back now is appropriate.
4. Tony will be more than capable driving and winning with the All Stars once the series defines their officials roles as well as Tony's role if in the cockpit. It is hard to officiate the boss, but to be successful , that is exactly what Tony has to agree to if driving in the series.
5. Tony would be the last one to expect any ASCoC driver to cut him any slack because of who he is, but he has every right as a driver to confront another driver if he felt mistreated. It must be driver to driver and not series owner to driver. That must be clarified immediately if Tony continues to compete in ASCoC.
6. This is not a big deal and hopefully will be tweaked so that we get to see Tony run ASCoC in 2017.
Originally Posted by MIracing:
Smoke raced the first 2 nights with the All Stars at Bubba.
Night 2 he got into it with Chad Kemanah, the star and champion of the All Stars. Apparently, he wasn't happy with the way Chad raced him and found him to tell him about it after the race.
Day 3 he unloaded and drew a pill but scratched for the night. Speculation is that he was unhappy with track prep at Bubba. Although, his team said he sat out to re-evaluate running with the series that he owns.
I am a fan of Tony Stewart. I love everything he has given back to racing especially grassroots. Sometimes it is hard to justify/defend his actions though.