Sunday, June 26, 2016

Tony Stewart had plenty of one-liners in his post-race presser


Tony Stewart 1-on-1 with Kenny Wallace - "NASCAR RaceDay"

Tony Stewart toasts the victory lane revelers as he celebrates his first win since June 2, 2013.(Photo: Kyle Terada, USA TODAY Sports)

SONOMA, Calif. Tony Stewart was in a jubilant mood following his win Sunday at Sonoma Raceway, and it resulted in a wide-open and oft-hilarious post-race news conference.

Heres a sampling of some of the best moments:

--On how much he roughed up Denny Hamlin in the final turn: If it hadbeen a street fight, he"d have had two black eyes after that.

--On his enjoyment of Saturday nights fight in the Camping World Truck Series race involving John Wes Townley: I"m going to go to Zaxby"s and eat chicken all week just in support of John Wes. Hey, I"m all for it. I"m glad to see somebody had some emotion and actually did something with it. That made my whole day last night was watching the Truck race. I had no idea that John Wes Townley was going to make my top five hero list of all time. I"m following him on social media now.

--On future Stewart-Haas Racing driver Clint Bowyers electrical fire in the car: Glad he got out of that. It would be really hard to listen to him next year (does Bowyer impression). He"s hard enough to hear on the radio as it is because he"s ADD anyway. It takes five people, and it"s like every breath, somebody picks a different part of the sentence to understand. It"s like a game show. It"s like Clint Bowyer for $600, please!

--On social media critics: One thing that I did think about is in this day of social media where a lot of people are crickets. On social media, they sit there and chirp, chirp, chirp, chirp until they"ve got to be in front of you and then they don"t say a d**n word.

--On whether hes happy racing Sprint Cup cars: Today.Check with me. Most likely when Daytona starts on Friday, not so much. We all know how I feel about restrictor-plate racing.

--On NASCAR CEO Brian France: Brian France, I got in trouble -- well, I started to say I got in trouble once with Brian France. That"s a lie. I got in trouble a lot with Brian France.

--On how fans will remember Stewart and Jeff Gordon: Ten years down the road, the new people watching the sport are going to be like, Who are these old guys? I"m going to go, This is the guy who took me to the sand dunes and broke my back.

--On getting mad at other drivers: I can"t whip them all at once. I can take them one at a time. There"s a couple of them I might be able to take at the same time. You can pick which ones they are.

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Source: http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2016/06/26/tony-stewart-had-plenty-one-liners-his-post-race-presser/86417606/

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