Controversial Tony Stewart Interview (5 Viewers)

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NASCAR driver Kyle Busch is the subject but Stewart is an NHRA driver and team owner and this interview took place at the Bristol facility just before this weekend's NHRA race kicked off. Please move the post if it belongs in a different forum.

The internet is abuzz this morning with this interview, shocking in the eyes of quite a few people. I believe Tony was making the point that if you constantly badmouth someone in life it's a d**k move to glorify them in death when you have no idea what they're like off-track. Lots of people despised Busch and yet praised him to the moon and back as to his stellar driving career. Do you agree with Outkick's brutal condemnation of Stewart? I found it a bit unusual but no, I don't agree with Outkick. Tony has pretty much disavowed NASCAR and the hypocrites involved so I'm not surprised at this.

NASCAR legend Tony Stewart calls mourning fans 'a--holes' in tone-deaf rant about Kyle Busch

Tony Stewart says he's "pissed off" at how people handled Kyle Busch's death, claiming fans only cared about who Busch was as a person after he died.

www.foxnews.com

 

[Butch]

I have to agree with Smoke. How many times in life we lose someone that may have been viewed as not so stellar of a person, but after the death they are talked about as the greatest.

 

[Harry]

BUSCH took on a badboy persona when dreary NASCAR need one. Say and think what you like.

 

[Paul]

Tony was spot on.

 

[J. S.]

I would like to see the interview with Tony Stewart, but they don't post a link to it as far as I could see. I assume Tony was saying more or less that Kyle was a jerk, and now you're not allowed to bring that up after his death. But I don't know for sure if that was what Tony meant. I think the commentary in the article was pretty lame, either way.

 

[Paul]

I would like to see the interview with Tony Stewart, but they don't post a link to it as far as I could see. I assume Tony was saying more or less that Kyle was a jerk, and now you're not allowed to bring that up after his death. But I don't know for sure if that was what Tony meant. I think the commentary in the article was pretty lame, either way.

https://www.facebook.com/reel/966325419721881

 

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I would like to see the interview with Tony Stewart, but they don't post a link to it as far as I could see. I assume Tony was saying more or less that Kyle was a jerk, and now you're not allowed to bring that up after his death. But I don't know for sure if that was what Tony meant. I think the commentary in the article was pretty lame, either way.

I put up the link in Post 1. Not the entire interview but the part that involved the Busch comments. Stewart's point was you don't know Kyle like I do; he was a great person off-track They were obviously close. But if you spent years bashing him because of his conduct on the track you have no right to elevate him to sainthood afterward. Don't like him, ok, then don't like him and say no more.

 

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I put up the link in Post 1; it's embedded in the Outkick article. Stewart's point was you don't know Kyle like I do; he was a great person off-track They were obviously close. But if you spent years bashing him because of his conduct on the track you have no right to elevate him to sainthood afterward. Don't like him, ok, then don't like him and say no more.

 

[J. S.]

I put up the link in Post 1. Not the entire interview but the part that involved the Busch comments. Stewart's point was you don't know Kyle like I do; he was a great person off-track They were obviously close. But if you spent years bashing him because of his conduct on the track you have no right to elevate him to sainthood afterward. Don't like him, ok, then don't like him and say no more.

Thanks Carl, for clarifying that. So it looks like the article commentary was off-base in my opinion. I agree with TS, and I like that he is speaking his mind on this topic.

 

[swervin]

I agree with what Tony said, I think the writers slant on what Tony said made it controversial.

 

[I was NITRO BREATH]

I think the writer made a good point. Tony is implying that Kyle was a much better person than his reputation would indicate. And that the fans didn't know the real Kyle. But in reality the only way the fans get to know a driver is watching his performance on the track which in his case was over the top very often. Anybody remember Whit Basemore?

 

[DragFan2]

I think the writer made a good point. Tony is implying that Kyle was a much better person than his reputation would indicate. And that the fans didn't know the real Kyle. But in reality the only way the fans get to know a driver is watching his performance on the track which in his case was over the top very often. Anybody remember Whit Basemore?

Many of us longtime drag racing fans remember Whit Bazemore. What were you trying to imply? Hopefully that he was a really good guy off the track, and very passionate on or at the track. Actually, he's all-in whatever he does. Great photographer too, and that was his passion before driving funny cars.