Update on the Tony Stewart story from Tom Hintz at the Stock Car Racing Magazine website: Tony Stewart’s parents have to be wondering just what their hyper talented son has gotten into. first he has a string of IRL engines litter the countryside with broken parts (littering), then his crew gets into an altercation with Dale Earnhardt Jr. & company (fighting) and now he has been reportedly arrested for disorderly conduct at a short track near Vermillion, Ohio. Before you jump to conclusions that Stewart attacked the next guy that bumped him, read on. Stewart was reportedly involved in a crash during a race and one of the other principles took exception figuring Stewart was at least partially at fault and had to be restrained as he went towards Stewart’s car. I’ve been around short track racing for thirty plus years and can’t remember many crashes in which somebody wasn’t erroneously accused of being the culprit and not having been at the scene of this crash, am not going to decide who was in the wrong, if anyone was. The gist of the situation is that one of the involved drivers claimed Stewart tried to run him down on the track after the crash and went to a police officer to press charges. Not having seen the incident the police had two options, arrest no one or everyone. The angered driver took the latter and he and Stewart were reportedly taken into custody until they each paid $75 in bail.(Stock Car Racing Magazine Site.(6-23-98)
