FanHouse's Geoffrey Miller is on location & blogging away at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Sunday's 15th Running of the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard.
Friday morning, word got out that NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart was in some kind of altercation at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis during a Midget race involving a race team that he owns.
Stewart was alleged to have gotten extremely heated at USAC race officials after his car, driven by Tracey Hines, was forced to a go a lap down after officials had deemed the team had taken too long to repair the car prior to the green flag coming out.
The result of Stewart's anger has now been made available online thanks to an Indianapolis television station, WTHR-13, who received the homemade video from a fan who was in the grandstands that night.
The video, which is only 0:46 seconds long, clearly shows an irate Stewart yelling directly in the face of a USAC official. At that point, Stewart hadn't done anything wrong, and its quite normal to see an irritated crew member getting after it with an official in the racing world -- just like an umpire and a baseball manager would do.
Unfortunately, though, Stewart doesn't stop there, appearing to jab his finger into the USAC official's chest before ripping off his headset and throwing it to the ground. Stewart then appears to storm away from the official before confronting another official and pushing him backwards.
Friday morning, word got out that NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart was in some kind of altercation at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis during a Midget race involving a race team that he owns.
Stewart was alleged to have gotten extremely heated at USAC race officials after his car, driven by Tracey Hines, was forced to a go a lap down after officials had deemed the team had taken too long to repair the car prior to the green flag coming out.
The result of Stewart's anger has now been made available online thanks to an Indianapolis television station, WTHR-13, who received the homemade video from a fan who was in the grandstands that night.
The video, which is only 0:46 seconds long, clearly shows an irate Stewart yelling directly in the face of a USAC official. At that point, Stewart hadn't done anything wrong, and its quite normal to see an irritated crew member getting after it with an official in the racing world -- just like an umpire and a baseball manager would do.
Unfortunately, though, Stewart doesn't stop there, appearing to jab his finger into the USAC official's chest before ripping off his headset and throwing it to the ground. Stewart then appears to storm away from the official before confronting another official and pushing him backwards.
Tony Stewart Racing driver Tracy Hines was injured in an accident on the evening of Monday, April 30 on his Indiana property. 
