NASCAR WCUP: Tony Stewart post race comments, Dover
Posted By Terry Callahan
Motorsports Editor, The Auto Channel
September 23, 2001TONY STEWART, NO. 20 HOME DEPOT PONTIAC GRAND PRIX:
(ON YOUR RACE OVERALL) "It was an awful tough day. The last 100 laps were the longest 100 laps I've run in a while. We just couldn't really find anything that would work for us today. The guys did a great job on pit road and kept us as close to the front as possible, but it was just tough to race with anybody today. I'm drained. I'm mentally and physically drained and I shouldn't have to feel that way after only 400 miles at Dover."
(ON THE INCIDENT WITH DALE JARRETT AT THE END OF THE RACE) "Anybody that watched, he (Dale Jarrett) had been going in on the bottom, sliding halfway up the racetrack, and then when I'd get a run through the center he'd cut down. He's just doing it to protect his spot. But he's got to understand that he's putting himself in a bad position when he does that because if I get a bigger run than he thinks - three times I had to slam on the brakes to keep him from hitting the right front of my car - it's just a bad deal. "He is not a guy that I ever want to turn. I don't want to turn anybody. I'm so tired of controversy; I don't need any with this. I really like Dale Jarrett. He's a good guy and he's been a good friend to me this year. He is one of the last guys I would have liked to have seen that happen to."
Text provided by Al Larsen
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