2007-07-31 04:36:38 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Auto Racing ➔ NASCAR
There will be no fine !!
INDIANAPOLIS -- Kevin Harvick was summoned to the NASCAR principal's office following the Allstate 400 to clarify post-race contact on the backstretch with race winner Tony Stewart.
Harvick said it was a standard congratulatory love tap, not retaliation for racing contact his team felt might have cost him the race. Thus he won't be penalized, NASCAR said.
Harvick and Stewart were racing for the lead with nine laps to go and made contact, caving in the left front fender of Harvick's Chevrolet and hurting the aerodynamics of the car. Harvick quickly dropped through the field and ultimately finished seventh.
"The car just won't go with 100 pounds of downforce knocked out of it," crew chief Todd Berrier said after the race.
Harvick was not happy.
"He's always the first one to whine about people not giving him enough room, and I gave him plenty of room all day to race, and he winds up knocking the left front fender off, and we wound up finishing seventh," Harvick said. "It is what it is. Just race them how they race you."
Stewart said he made a mistake.
"I didn't mean to get into Kevin," Stewart said. "Winning that way would have ruined winning the Brickyard 400."
2007-07-31 07:48:56 · answer #1 · answered by LindaInNC 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Nothing. Harvick and Stewart are very good friends; Happy was just giving Tony a little donut love after the win - like Dale Earnhardt, Sr. used to do.
2007-07-31 11:40:54 · answer #2 · answered by Halcyon 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've heard that there will be no penalties. Although I wouldn't call it a little nudge, it was hard enough to knock Tony down the track a bit, and I think it forced another car to go through the grass under Tony.
2007-07-31 11:45:02 · answer #3 · answered by samwu09 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There won't be any penalties and I don't think there should be. No harm, no foul. It was not a congratulatory bump though, Kevin was more than a little ticked off at Tony.
2007-07-31 14:03:58 · answer #4 · answered by Eric C 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hopefully nothing. The bump while they were racing was nothing more than a bump. It wasnt intentional it was just 2 guys running really hard for the win late in the race. The one after the race was just racers being racers. Its like a high five. Nothing more than saying "Hey great race".
2007-07-31 13:11:30 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm curious too, like others I thought Kevin did it jokingly and in a congratulatory way, but after he (Kevin) climbed out of his car you could tell he was ticked and not too complimentary of Tony.
2007-07-31 12:52:12 · answer #6 · answered by shortnstoudt 4 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Probably nothing. Just good PR on the part of Nascar.
2007-08-04 11:36:25 · answer #7 · answered by Old Man 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolutely nothing, just like him cussing that he shoulda slammed the gd car if tony was gonna be that way...nothing done with that but oh my smoke swore and it seems to be pounce on him, that is wrong...
2007-07-31 15:25:58 · answer #8 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I have not gotten anything in my daily mails.. about penalties.. as of yet. And who knows maybe there wont be.
2007-07-31 14:13:16 · answer #9 · answered by harvickmakesmeshiver 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have been looking for this answer since they called him in. I am eagerly waiting
2007-07-31 11:38:49 · answer #10 · answered by 20forLIFE 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋