...in the heat of competition." The incident was the second in three weeks involving Stewart. NASCAR fined the hot-tempered driver following a race in Sonoma, Calif. on June 27. Stewart argued with and struck driver Brian Vicker after the...

...that he should simply park his car and call it a day. Pattie didn't flinch. He coddled and cajoled, urged his hot-tempered driver to calm down and fretted that Montoya was inching dangerously close to the kind of language that usually lands...