NASCAR Update: Loudon
Tony Stewart climbed the fence again, this time to celebrate atop the flag stand following his win at Loudon, NH. This is Stewart's third win out of the last four races with his first fence-hopping coming at Daytona a few weeks ago. It is a gimmick. He said as much declaring it was his thing and if anyone else did it, they would be crude imitators. Maybe he came up with this in response to the victory back flips of rookie Carl Edwards. Maybe it was pure inspiration at finally pulling off a Daytona win. Either way, I approve. (I like the back flips too, mind you.) It is exhilarating and plain fun to see Tony scaling the tall fences and making his way over the curved top to commune with the crowd. And going over the top is kept from being over the top by the fact that he looks like one of us doing itungraceful, huffing and puffing, declaring his own amazement that he got his big rear up there at all.
