[tkj24]

MONTREAL - Kevin Harvick has ignored Tony Stewart's phone calls, assuming that Stewart wants to talk about and apologize for roughing up Harvick near the end of the Allstate 400 at Indianapolis Motor Speedway last Sunday.
"He's called," Harvick said Thursday. "I just haven't answered."

Stewart drives part-time in the Busch Series for Harvick, but that doesn't mean that Harvick will let what happened Sunday just slide. The Richard Childress Racing driver wound up seventh after Stewart passed him for the lead with 10 laps remaining, caving in Harvick's right-front fender on the straightaway.
"The biggest disappointment was just how we weren't able to finish second," Harvick said. "We had the second-best car and wound up finishing seventh. Unfortunately, it was just a matter of time before he got by, and he just kind of caught me off guard."
Stewart, who has criticized drivers for not giving him enough room, admitted he made a mistake. Harvick said if a driver preaches for drivers to give each other more room, the driver needs to abide by it as well.
"I understand he probably made a mistake, but when you're on the receiving end of it, it's not a part that I ... take lightly," Harvick said. "We lost a chance to win the Brickyard 400. He was going to pass us. It was just a matter of time. For 15 laps side by side, changing the lead back and forth, and from my end, it just looks like he just got in a hurry and got a little bit frustrated because he couldn't get by as easy as he wanted to.
"Things happen. It's part of the sport, and I'm not going to sit up here and whine about it. It's just something that happened. At some point it will go the other way, and you just hope that it's not something that is harped upon if it goes that way."
Harvick said the two racers will remain friends.
"I don't think you let anything on the track affect your relationship off the race track," Harvick said. "Obviously, you expect one thing to happen, and it happens another way. For me, it's better to just take some time and think about things and just realize where we are and go from there.
"I wouldn't think it would affect anything off the race track. I'll get over it - at some point. And we'll still be friends, and we'll go from there."

[Racer Duck]

sounds like Happy is doing the right thing: giving himself time to deal with the situation, before he deals with the person involved.

maybe if Tony got a few more cold shoulders from his "friends" that he roughed up, he'd start getting the point: the problem is the nut behind HIS wheel.

[PenelopePitStop]

Ga! Why is Harvick assuming Stewart wants to apologize? Maybe he wants to give him "what for".

Sure Harvick. Real mature!

[PettyBlue]

Stew gives what for to other drivers in person if he thinks he is right and calls on the phone when he feels he is in the wrong.

[PenelopePitStop]

Originally Posted by PettyBlue

Stew gives what for to other drivers in person if he thinks he is right and calls on the phone when he feels he is in the wrong.

That's true ... but Harvick's no angel.

[PettyBlue]

You are correct.Angels are white,he is yellow.lol.

[PenelopePitStop]

Originally Posted by PettyBlue

You are correct.Angels are white,he is yellow.lol.

http://www.smileycentral.com/sig.jsp?pc=ZSzeb114&pp=ZN

[LSC9901]

"The biggest disappointment was just how we weren't able to finish second," Harvick said. "We had the second-best car and wound up finishing seventh. Unfortunately, it was just a matter of time before he got by, and he just kind of caught me off guard."
Stewart, who has criticized drivers for not giving him enough room, admitted he made a mistake. Harvick said if a driver preaches for drivers to give each other more room, the driver needs to abide by it as well.

So the addmission of the mistake forgives the offense (again and again and again)????

[Bob Tanner]

It seems to me that both Harvic, Stewart and a couple others have a nasty habit of acting, and reacting like spoiled, immature little brats.

Singapore has public caning for extremely bad public behaviour. Maybe...???

[bears9]

So much for them being best buddies as Stewie would put it

[BringBackWilkesboro]

They can still be best buddies, they are just SO not talking at the moment.

[Bob Tanner]

Originally Posted by BringBackWilkesboro

They can still be best buddies, they are just SO not talking at the moment.

For sure, for sure...

[LSC9901]

I'm not sure if I were either one of them that I'd wanna call the other my "buddy".

[tkj24]

Originally Posted by LSC9901

I'm not sure if I were either one of them that I'd wanna call the other my "buddy".

for sure, for sure

[Bob Tanner]

Has anyone ever thought about the fact that the way Stewart handled Harvick at the Brickyard 400 is EXACTLY the way Harvick would want Tony to handle any other driver when Tony is behind the wheel of Harvick's #33 Cup Lite machine?

Maybe it's just my twisted imagination but it seems that Kevie baby is being just a tad disingenuous in this whole deal?