Tony Stewart on Juan Pablo Montoya
On last night’s edition of his weekly SIRIUS NASCAR Radio Show, “Tony Stewart Live,”, which airs every Tuesday 8 to 10pm (et), on SIRIUS NASCAR 128, (And re-airs Saturday at 7am (et)), #20-Tony Stewart and co-host Matt Yocum touched on events that came from the Texas race last weekend.
More Specifically, he touched on his retirement statement, and his interactions with rookie sensation Juan Pablo Montoya.
On his Rertirement Statment that he made after the race: “… We’ve still got unfinished business with the Daytona 500 and four other tracks that we haven’t won at, I guess. … I didn’t mean to put all of our fans in a three-alarm fire situation. It was more just emotion speaking than it was common sense. … So there’s nobody on our race team that will throw in the towel, myself included. … “
On his incident with Montoya: “We had Juan Pablo Montoya behind us on a restart and he tried to go to the outside of me and put me in the middle of three-wide before we even get to the flag stand and I didn’t really appreciate that much. So about 15 laps into the run here he comes and instead of just being courteous to him I thought, ‘Well, he was going to put me in a bad spot so I’m going to put him in a bad spot.’ So I raced him and raced him and raced him and that’s where I made my mistake.
… We’ll talk on Friday morning before we go to practice. I know he tried to get a hold of me yesterday and I told the Godfather (Eddie Jarvis) to call Chip [Ganassi] and make sure he got a hold of Juan and said, ‘Hey, we’re cool. We’ll talk about it this weekend.’ But I don’t want to do it on the phone. I want to sit down so I can explain it to him. I’ve got a lot of respect for Juan. I still stand behind what I said at the beginning of the year. He’s got more natural ability than 99% of the guys I’ve ever raced with.”
(Excerpts from an article on http://www.jayski.com/cupnews.htm.)
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