Boy, that guy is just sneaky.

Two weeks ago, all the rage was about Carl Edwards finally mounting a charge to overcome Kyle Busch's impressive stranglehold on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Then, Jimmie Johnson won two races (including Sunday's Chevy Rock & Roll 400), came out of hiding, and decided to play for the Chase for the Championship game as the veteran ace among championship newbies.

Stop by NASCAR FanHouse on Sunday at 1pm/ET for some good ol' fashioned live bloggin' of Sunday's Chevy Rock & Roll 400. It'll be Chase-tastic!

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]:

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.

Tony Stewart can't be a big fan of the word "detrimental".

The word has been slapped on Stewart multiple times in his career in the form of a NASCAR penalty because the sanctioning body nearly always includes Rule 12-4-A "Actions detrimental to stock car racing" for every violation of the rule book.

And even in the case of USAC penalties, Tony Stewart can't avoid it there either as that sanctioning body's vice president of racing operations called Stewart's most recent actions "unacceptable behavior detrimental to the sport" Monday afternoon.

The incident last Thursday night at O'Reilly Raceway Park in Indianapolis brought the two-time Sprint Cup champion a $10,000 fine and probation.

Of course, he's probably pretty used to that probation thing.

He also will buy the series brand new radios and uniforms for the officials.

The penalties come from Stewart's temper, as he got tremendously irritated after USAC failed to allow the midget car he owns of Tracey Hines back on the race track in time to avoid going a lap down during an event at the half-mile track that preceded the Craftsman Truck Series and Nationwide Series events at the track.

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.