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I've had a few days now to muse over the recent profile piece done in Rolling Stone on the always lovable Tony Stewart.

If you haven't had a chance to read it yourself, I'd highly recommend it. And if you have read it, I'm sure you'll agree with me on a couple of fronts:

1) If you love Stewart because of his rank attitude and keen ability to not adapt to what people say he should be, then this piece exemplifies why so many people are so passionate in cheering for Tony and ...

2) If you're not the biggest Stewart fan but enjoy reading about how drivers really live outside of the limelight, it's again right up your alley.

The article is loaded with juicy tidbits about Stewart's life and the language he uses when he's not around the media -- or at least attempts to refrain from using. It mainly follows Stewart over the course of a few races earlier in 2008 and includes written imagery about Stewart riding back on his airplane, what the inside of his Hummer looks like, and just how "lavish" his Columbus, Ind. home is.

The best part by far, however, is when Stewart bashes Kurt Busch during the qualifying session this past May at Texas Motor Speedway [and as a slight warning, the language isn't exactly Disney movie appropriate]:

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Soon-to-be rookie Sprint Cup driver Joey Logano -- you've heard all about him I bet -- was planning to race Saturday night at Richmond International Raceway for the first time in NASCAR's top division.

Tropical Storm Hanna had other ideas, though.

The rain and winds from the weakened storm moved through the Richmond, Va.-area Friday night and Saturday, forcing the postponement of the event until Sunday afternoon, and in the process, forcing Logano to miss his first try at a Sprint Cup race because NASCAR canceled qualifying and set the field via points.

Logano was supposed to drive Joe Gibbs Racing's No. 02 Toyota in a paint scheme exactly opposite that of Tony Stewart's No. 20 Home Depot machine. Logano, of course, will be taking Stewart's seat at JGR in 2009.

In practice, he was 9th quickest on the speed chart.

Originally, his next start was supposed to be at New Hampshire Motor Speedway next weekend, though the plans for that seem to be evolving after the Richmond setback.

Joe Gibbs Racing finally took away the suspense that was involving the newly-vacant No. 20 ride effective 2009 with Tony Stewart leaving with a press conference on Monday.

OK, maybe there wasn't that much suspense.

Joey Logano, the 18-year-old Connecticut driver with a single Nationwide Series win at Kentucky in 2008, will take over the reigns of the Toyota with Greg Zippidelli as crew chief. Home Depot will be the sponsor, and will continue to do so past 2009 for the young driver.

Anything else you need to go along with that silver platter, Joey?

I'll admit it, this Logano situation just doesn't sit well with me. It's not Joey -- he's a well-trained in dealing with the media, has been successful, and seems to be a nice kid (guy, man, what's really appropriate?) -- and its certainly not the Joe Gibbs Racing team.

It's just that to me, this whole Logano story has been shoved done our throats for too long. It was years (not months) ago that Mark Martin told the world that Logano was best thing to drive a race car since sliced bread. Well, not bread, but you get the picture.

For once, NASCAR seems to have stepped up to the plate in regards to issuing penalties for cheating in the sport.

As you know, Wednesday brought the news from NASCAR of the stiff backhand that the sanctioning body inflicted on the team members of Joe Gibbs Racing's two Nationwide Series teams who were caught cheating last Saturday at Michigan International Speedway.

The penalties included indefinite suspensions for both crew chiefs of the No. 18 and No. 20 cars (Jason Ratcliff and Dave Rogers) as well as five other team members involved in the illicit tampering of the post-race competition testing analysis NASCAR performed Saturday. The term "indefinite" -- to the best of my knowledge -- has never been used by NASCAR for a performance-related suspension.

Point deductions to the tune of 150 driver and owner points for the cars driven by Tony Stewart and Joey Logano were also inflicted, as well as monetary fines to the crew chiefs.

The biggest impact, I think, comes from what the Joe Gibbs Racing team has done about the matter. They've already confirmed that the team members in question will be suspended for at least the remainder of the season and that they will each face internal fines from the company that will be paid directly from their pocket.

Tony Stewart is already changing things up at newly-formed Stewart-Haas Racing, despite a car having yet to turn a lap under the team's banner.

Monday night on his radio show, Stewart decided -- or at least he informed everyone -- that Ryan Newman wouldn't be driving the No. 4 as originally planned. Instead, Newman will parade the No. 39 yet-to-be-sponsored Chevrolet in 2009.

The switch comes three days after Stewart formalized plans at Michigan International Speedway for Newman to compete with the No. 4.

Stewart offered two reasons for the change: The No. 39 is special to Newman because he won his first United States Auto Club midget race with the number, and Stewart wanted to leave the No. 4 available to its long-time carrier, Morgan-McClure Motorsports, should the team return to the Sprint Cup Series next year.

Newman has also driven the No. 39 in a number of Nationwide Series starts with Penske Racing over the past few years.

The second reason Stewart gives, though, seems more like the real reason for the switch after Tim Morgan voiced his displeasure to a Bristol, Tenn. newspaper last Friday about the SHR number selection.

The NASCAR world may have just found out why Joe Gibbs Racing has been so dominant in the 2008 Nationwide Series.

The No. 18 and No. 20 JGR Nationwide Series teams -- driven by Joey Logano and Tony Stewart -- were accused Saturday night at Michigan International Speedway of tampering with the post-race inspection process after NASCAR found magnets attached to the back of the accelerator pedals on both cars during a chassis dyno test.

During the test, NASCAR officials discovered magnets on the accelerator pedals of the two Gibbs Toyotas. Several sources said the magnets could, in theory, keep the pedals from being fully depressed, which would limit the engines' output and distort the data available to officials.

"This was an attempt to interfere with NASCAR's post-race inspection process, and we are taking it very seriously," said Jim Hunter, vice president of corporate communications for the sanctioning body.

The test measures the horsepower, torque, and other numbers of an engine as it sits inside the race car and by putting a magnet behind the pedal, the numbers NASCAR would get from the test would be incorrect, leading to incorrect conclusions about the parity of the competition.

Despite a press conference Friday that left a lot of people with a lot of questions, Ryan Newman is officially hired on at Stewart-Haas Racing -- and a big part of that is just to simply have more "fun".

"The bottom line is that I want to have fun," said Newmanduring the Stewart-Haas press conference at Michigan International Speedway on Friday.

"I'm here to have fun and I know (Stewart) he wants to have fun doing this."

I'd assume that the definition for "fun" carries two mandates: being in contention to win more races and having a nice contract with multiple zeros at the end of the compensation line. Both drivers are known fisherman, so that might be included in the "fun" deal, too.

So much for that business about Kyle Busch cooling down.

Instead, Busch showed that he was just ready to take on his newest title as the Sprint Cup's next great road course ace after winning Sunday's Centurion Boats at the Glen.

The calendar now says August, and unbelievably, former Sprint Cup champions Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart still haven't found victory lane in 2008.

It wouldn't be correct, though, to say that each driver has struggled in 2008. In fact, it's been quite the opposite.

Through 21 races, Gordon has secured two poles, eight Top-5s, and to Top-10s. His best finish was a second-place run at Martinsville in the spring, and the results have landed him solidly inside the Top 12 drivers who will qualify for the the Chase for the Sprint Cup.

He's currently 6th in points, 381 points out of the lead.

Three DNF's in 2008 have hurt Gordon's season stats so far and without that share of bad luck, he'd be in much better shape as the series heads to a track that Gordon undoubtedly has to call one his favorites -- the road course at Watkins Glen.

Carl Edwards is back in victory lane in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Edwards -- who couldn't catch Jimmie Johnson in last week's Allstate 400 at the Brickyard -- finally captured his fourth victory of the 2008 season in Sunday's Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 after being oh-so-close for the last three races on the Sprint Cup schedule.

Edwards has finished second twice in the past three races (Indianapolis and Daytona) and had the car to beat late in the going at Chicagoland before blowing a tire and breaking his front splitter.