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BY NICK GERHARDT

ANCHOR JIM FLINK

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Boys, have at it. No one’s talking about Kurt Busch’s dominant Sonoma win yesterday. Instead, NASCAR nation is abuzz about the carnage.

Tony Stewart and Brian Vickers wrecked one another on Sunday--Stewart acted first, spinning Vickers car on the 39th lap, and Vickers retaliated on the same turn 48 laps later when he sent Busch into a wall--spinning out his own car in the process.

Meanwhile Juan Pablo Montoya caused a major wreck, and Joey Logano tangled with Bobby Gordon, prompting Gordon to promise, quote “childress style revenge”--a threat to punch Logano in the face, according to Jay Hart of Yahoo! Sports. (Video: Fox Sports)

NASCAR officials remain uninvolved with the drivers’ conflicts. According to Joe Menzer of NASCAR.com, officials declared it was, quote “just good, hard racing here at Infineon Raceway.”

Menzer writes,

“...Neither driver expected to be disciplined. They took care of business as they saw fit. … Vickers said his decision to retaliate was just how it’s done in this sport.”

Yahoo’s Jay Hart says--well, that’s exactly what NASCAR needs.

“I think that this has something, obviously, to do with the boys have at it mentality, and NASCAR, again, it comes back to what they need to get themselves into that consciousness to be relevant again. And wrecks, and tempers, and personalities have always been what they’ve sold, and this is certainly what’s propping them up right now.”

Not everyone agrees.  Norris McDonald, a former driver, owner, and track announcer, said in his Toronto Star motorsports blog,

 “Car owners are not amused by people who lose their tempers. They like guys like [Jimmie] Johnson, who’s won five straight championships and is easy on the equipment and doesn’t lose his cool. Stewart and [Vickers] would both be wise to emulate Johnson, rather than some of the losers out there.”

Tony Stewart remains in the hunt for the Chase, and --According to NASCAR.com,  -- has vowed to wreck any and all who block him--even if it’s his teammate. Beyond the wreckage, Kurt Busch logged the first road course victory of his career.