Stewart

Get out?

  • don't jump out

    Votes: 4 40.0%

  • Jump out at pocono

    Votes: 4 40.0%

  • Jump out at michigan

    Votes: 3 30.0%

  • Jump out at infineon

    Votes: 3 30.0%
  • Total voters
    10
Magnethead

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Should tony stay in the car for pocono, michigan, and sonoma?

I think he should sit out at least half of pocono. If you ask park, JR, or schrader, I think you'll get a similar answer. As much as that place gets rain and the amount of grass they have, it wont take much to aggrivate his injury. Not to mention no hit anywhere is "soft", wether it included the safer barriers or not. Michigan I think he should be able to handle, but i'm not so sure he should run much of sonoma- with his right shoulder being hurt, I'm not sure that he has full range of motion to constantly shift.
 
He just needs to start each one, come in under yellow and hope out. MIS is a fast track and he hits the wall there he will be done for a while.
 
Eh, don't be a lil wussy boy. His relief driver once drove with his eyelids duct taped open. Lil'E drove with 8th degree burns over 200% of his body the 2nd race. Thus the nickname Charcoal the Wonder Boy. If he hits the wall suck it up and keep going... ;)
 
If i was tony i would set out a few races. Cuase if he hits the wall he wont beable to suck it up and he will have to miss alot of races while the bone healed up 100%.

Little E also did not finish a few races, so what makes Tony any diff?
 
Cuase if he hits the wall he wont beable to suck it up
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Actually he would. He would probably be on a liquid diet with a straw where his mouth is. And, I thought Lil'E only had a subbie for 1 race. Was it 2?
 
I think he should do what he did at Dover at Pocono and from there on out i bet he stays in the car the whole time unless it starts really bothering him. nothing wrong with having a sub i mean a broken bone is a broken bone..
 
He needs to jump out at sonoma. Just my opinion. LETS GO RACIN!!
 
barelypure said:
Actually he would. He would probably be on a liquid diet with a straw where his mouth is. And, I thought Lil'E only had a subbie for 1 race. Was it 2?
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i thought it was 3-4 races.
 
barelypure said:
Eh, don't be a lil wussy boy. His relief driver once drove with his eyelids duct taped open. Lil'E drove with 8th degree burns over 200% of his body the 2nd race. Thus the nickname Charcoal the Wonder Boy. If he hits the wall suck it up and keep going... ;)
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I agree with this, BP. So, I voted for stay in & race. If Stewart is tough as he likes to act, prove it....
old school toughness
 
tony's tough...he can probably deal with during the race...but if he has another wreck he's liable to be out for awhile.

his shoulder was probably messed up during the busch race here in charlotte and then he wrecks in the cup race which probably screwed it up much worse...you dont want to do that again..so he should sit for awhile.
 
This Buds For Me said:
...but if he has another wreck he's liable to be out for awhile.
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That's a good point and will probably be considered. But Rudd was supposed to come in and not make any mistakes. But he did just that, taking a 8th to 10th place car and finishing 25th.
 
MRM said:
That's a good point and will probably be considered. But Rudd was supposed to come in and not make any mistakes. But he did just that, taking a 8th to 10th place car and finishing 25th.
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8th to 10th place car ?? What formula did you use to come up with that conclusion ?? Fact is, Rudd ran a darn good race, didn't wreck and earned stewarts points for him. 25th is better than DFL. I still think Stewarts injury doesn't warrant him sitting on his duff watching someone else earn his points............



Back in 2002, the year he won his first championship, Stewart was forced to use a replacement driver in Darlington after sustaining an injury in a previous race.
Prior to that in 1999 then Joe Gibbs driver Bobby Labonte suffered the exact same injury as Stewart when he crashed hard in the wall at Darlington only to go on and race the remainder of the season.
“If it's anything like we saw with Bobby, there isn't much you can do for it,” said Joe Gibbs Vice President Jimmy Makar. “It's more of a pain threshold type of thing. As long he can withstand the pain or we can give him some local medicines to deaden that area of his back, he'll be ok to drive.”
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Stewart needs to toughen up for his team & sponsors & earn his points like everyone else has/does.I still feel there is no room for this...you get out of the car, no driver points for you.
 
They are typically no worse than a 10th place car unless they are really off. Had Rudd not gotten the penalty and cost them 2 laps, he might have stayed on the lead lap or been in the position for the free pass. Johnson couldn't keep up for 3/4 of the race and managed to get his lap back and a top 10 finish. Rudd was a fast as the 5th and 6th place cars on the restarts at the end. Put him on the lead lap at the end, he could have passed a number of those and made it into the top 10. No formula, just an opinion based on how this team usually runs, especially at Dover, and how the car was doing the last 100 laps of the race.


Stewart plans to run the whole race this weekend.

http://www.nascar.com/2006/news/headlines/cup/06/07/tstewart_pocono/index.html
 
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