Tony Stewart Delima

I was hoping I wouldn't have to write about this, but as soon as I heard the rumblings that Tony wanted to be a team owner I had a feeling he wouldn't be back with Gibbs next season. You see it was kind of a perfect storm for Tony to get out of his contract through 2009. First Tony is a Chevy guy and driving Toyota's kind of put him in a bind. Second Tony has essentially been replaced by Kyle Busch as the #1 at Gibbs. Third Joey Logano. Gibbs is trying to bring him along in the Nationwide Series and in his first 3 races I think he had a win and a second place, so Gibbs probably felt like he could let Stewart go and replace him with someone with crazy talent and youth. Fourth, for some reason Tony really wants to own a NASCAR team and was willing to go with HAAS/CNC to get back to Chevy. Sadly Tony may never win another race. He could go the rest of this year and not win, if Gibbs starts to pull equipment off of him in favor of Busch and Hamlin, and with HAAS being what the 5th or 6th best Chevy team, it is unlikely that they will get any help from Chevy running behind the likes of Hendrick, Childress, and Earnhardt, who all have legit chase contenders. The best I can hope for is that Gibbs will let Tony take the #20, but if not I guess I will just be a huge Lagano fan. Or Kyle, I kind of like Kyle. He is more like Dale Sr. than Dale Jr. is, which is ironic because people don't like him because he wrecked Jr. at Richmond. But oh how they forget when Jr. wrecked Kyle at Kansas or how Jr. jumped in Kyle's car at Texas last year. Probably haven't seen the last of that feud, but at least I know what side I'll be on....