Tony Stewart critical of Joey Logano's father

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Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Tony Stewart critical of Joey Logano's father, Tom Logano, following
post-race incident: During a special airing of Tony Stewart Live on
Sirius NASCAR Radio Tuesday, Tony Stewart was pointedly blunt with his
criticism of Tom Logano. “When show co-host Matt Yocum asked Stewart
“What do you think about Tom Logano getting involved … ,” Stewart
stopped him mid-question by saying, “Soccer dad? Oh I’m sorry, did I
say that?” Tom Logano was summoned to speak with NASCAR officials
following a heated confrontation on pit road between his son and
fellow driver Kevin Harvick following Sunday’s Gillette Fusion
ProGlide 500 at Pocono (Pa) Raceway. It was the second time in eight
months that Tom Logano has been requested to meet with NASCAR
officials because of a post-race pit road confrontation following an
event where he was present. “I’m going to be perfectly honest. … I’ve
kind of had enough of Tom Logano getting into the middle of stuff,”
Stewart said Tuesday on Sirius. “Joey is a great great kid and I still
to this day believe that Joey was the best idea that we had to have
somebody replace me [in] the Home Depot car. But, I think his dad gets
in the way a little bit too much. “At this level it’s, you know,
you’ve got to let these guys handle it on their own and I don’t think
his dad, he doesn’t needs to be in the middle of it. Unless he starts
driving a racecar, he needs to stay out of it. Nobody else’s father’s
get in the middle of it.” Joey Logano, a 20-year old Middletown
native, replaced Stewart in the Joe Gibbs Racing No. 20 Sprint Cup car
before the start of the 2009 season. (Hartford Courant)
http://www.racewayreport.com/joeylogano

Jack Roush wants NASCAR to change testing policy: Car owner Jack Roush
wants NASCAR to lift its ban on testing at tracks where the Sprint
Cup, Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series race and instead give
each team eight test sessions a year. “That would give you a chance to
test at all the race tracks, at all the different kinds of tracks: the
short tracks, the intermediate tracks, the restrictor tracks and the
road race tracks,” said Roush, whose teams have yet to win a race this
season. “That would give you a chance to test at all those with every
driver and every car enough so that every crew chief would have for
himself his idea of what he needed and not just to have to rely on the
simulations that the engineers would propose.” Computer simulation
programs are the root of Roush’s problems, he believes. Roush wants
more testing, in part, because he’s not happy with the results from
his organization’s computer simulation programs. Without the testing,
Roush notes his teams are behind when they arrive at the track. “We’re
starting off with not as good a setup in the car, based on
simulations,” he said. (Virginian-Pilot)
http://www.racewayreport.com/news/testing.html

Paul Clapprood named interim crew chief for Bobby Labonte: TRG
Motorsports announced today Paul Clapprood has been named interim crew
chief for the No. 71 Chevy driven by Bobby Labonte in the NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series. The change is effective immediately. Clapprood, who
takes over the crew chief duties from Doug Randolph, will be on top of
the pit box for this weekend's Helavua Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 at
the two-mile Michigan International Speedway. "We are pleased to give
Paul this opportunity and we wish Doug all the best," said team owner,
Kevin Buckler. "Paul has demonstrated his abilities with the car in
the past and has been very dedicated to our program since we started
our Sprint Cup operation. We will be on a methodical two-week process
to hire a full-time crew chief and will expect an announcement after
Infineon."(TRG Motorsports)
http://www.racewayreport.com/drivers/news/bobby_labonte.html

Adam Sandler's new movie "Grown Ups" will be featured on deck lid of
No. 9: Adam Sandler’s latest movie, “Grown Ups,” will adorn the deck
lid of Kasey Kahne’s No. 9 Budweiser Ford this weekend for the Heluva
Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 at Michigan International Speedway (MIS).
Sunday’s race will mark the second time Kahne’s car has featured one
of the comedian’s films at the two-mile track. “Click” adorned the
hood of Kahne’s No. 9 car at MIS in June 2006. That weekend Kahne
scored the pole award and ended the race in Victory Lane, where he was
joined by Sandler as he celebrated the fifth win of his career. (Kasey
Kahne Race Preview)
http://www.racewayreport.com/drivers/news/kasey_kahne.html

Adam Sandler, Kevin James to serve as grand marshals at MIS: Adam
Sandler and Kevin James, stars of Columbia Pictures' "Grown Ups," in
theaters June 25, will serve as grand marshals for the Heluva Good!
Sour Cream Dips 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan
International Speedway on Jume 13th. Sandler and James know how to say
the most famous words in motorsports with passion and enthusiasm. Each
have given arguably the two most amazing commands in the NASCAR
history James in 2007 at Daytona International Speedway and Sandler
at MIS in June 2006. Sprint Cup Series tickets for the Heluva Good!
Sour Cream Dips 400 on June 13 and CARFAX 400 on August 15 are as low
as $25. Visit MISpeedway.com or call the MIS ticket hotline at
800-354-1010 today to take advantage of great pricing for 2010 events
at MIS.(MIS)
http://www.racewayreport.com/news/michigan.html

NASCAR likely to levy record fine on Front Row Motorsports after
discovery of illegal bleeder valves: When NASCAR makes the
announcement later today or tomorrow, expect the penalty to include a
$250,000 fine and 300 driver and owner points for Travis Kvapil and
owner Bob Jenkins. A suspension for crew chief Steven Lane will also
be included. This penalty tops the sanctions handed down last season
to Carl Long's team after his engine was discovered to be too large at
Charlotte. No word yet on how this will affect the team's status
moving forward. Expect the team to appeal the decision. (NASCAR
Insiders)
http://www.racewayreport.com/news/fines.html

SIRIUS-XM and SPEED to host "Prelude to the Dream" pre-race shows:
Fans waiting for Wednesday night's Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to
the Dream at the legendary Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, can whet
their collective appetites tonight when Tony Stewart host's "Tony
Stewart Live" at 7pm/et on SIRIUS-XM Radio. The broadcast will be
available to listeners nationwide on SIRIUS NASCAR Radio, SIRIUS
Channel 128 and XM Channel 128 with the "Best of SIRIUS" programming
package. And in the lead-up to the live 7:00pm/et HBO Pay-Per-View
telecast of the sixth annual Prelude to the Dream on Wednesday, SPEED
is airing a one-hour live pre-race special the Prelude to the Dream
Countdown Show at 6:00pm/et. Prelude drivers Carl Edwards, Clint
Bowyer, Ricky Carmichael, Tony Kanaan and Travis Pastrana will be
guests on SIRIUS-XM's "Tony Stewart Live," which will be hosted by
Stewart and FOX/TNT reporter Matt Yocum. (PR)
http://www.racewayreport.com/tv/news.html

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