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Video: Tony Stewart Slams Goodyear Tires
Published 3/10/2008 by Geoffrey Miller at FanHouse
Filed under: Tony Stewart, Joe Gibbs Racing, NASCAR VideosThough he finished second in Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500 won by teammate Kyle Busch, Tony Stewart still wasn't happy. Instead, Stewart felt extremely lucky to have even finished the race in his No. 20 car thanks to the new compound the Goodyear, NASCAR's sole racing tire supplier, brought to Atlanta for the Sprint Cup race. After exiting his car on pit road, he proceeded to rip Goodyear to shreds on network TV: I think the single best line from all of Stewart's comments was ...

2008 Atlanta Tony Stewart Angry at Goodyear!
Published 3/11/2008 by johnson at Auto Racing Blog
2008 Atlanta Tony Stewart Angry at Goodyear!

How great was Tony Stewart's postrace freakout?
Published 3/12/2008 at From the Marbles
By now, most everyone has seen or heard about Tony Stewart's evisceration of Goodyear following a godawful (in his eyes) performance in Sunday's Kobalt Tools 500. Here's the video: Great stuff. Now, what I want to know is, how does this stack up against the best postgame meltdowns ever? Forget just NASCAR; after the jump, we'll see how Tony compares with the best of the best across all sports. First, there's the classic Ryan Leaf meltdown at a reporter who dared ask him why he, you know, ...

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our tires.
Published 7/28/2008 by Mazarin at ROFL Sports
  I’ve really lost my care for NASCAR. I followed it so much as a child, before I learned the wonders of right turns and elevation changes. I’ve come to compare NASCAR and its one-dimensionalness to Formula 1 and many other race factions(American LeMans, Indy Car) like I would compare Q-Bert to Halo. Sure, Q-Bert was fun for a while, but I need more than just going up, going down, and swearing with every failure. But I guess like how it’s an event to see hockey in Wrigley Field or an NFL game in Europe(hahahahaha), tracks with such history like Daytona, Talladega, and Indianapolis still garner my attention. ...