2004 NASCAR Chicago 400 - Tony Stewart and Kasey Kahne pit crews fight after Kahne crash 

As soon as Kasey's crew saw the replay and knew for sure Tony dumped him, they unleashed their frustrations, LOL.

Man I really miss Benny parsons

Don't ya just miss Dodge in Nascar?...

damn, this was 10 years ago. When Kurt, jimmie, ryan, matt, and dale (might be missing people) were the "young guns".

Kahne would've won around 6 or 7 races that year but it was close finishes or bad luck

I miss these pit brawls.

Allen Bestwick at 1:18 "wow" LOL

I love how the officials always end up on the ground when two crews are fighting.

Being a stewart fan i thought this was pretty awesome, dont often see pit crews fight in nascar... you only get to see that @ your local saturday night track lol

Tony needs to race like this again, after the year he's had so far, it wouldn't be such a bad idea.

Also hell of a save by Jeremy Mayfield.

MAN I miss NASCAR from the early 2000's.

Wally loves his tires!

I like the "wow" from allen bestwick haha

Oh yeah! How could I forget that dominant performance before he cut down the tire? Wow, I totally forgot that one.

hell yeah thats some team support.

gotta love the drama in this sport!

" you got a guys thats not on new ti......." BIG FIGHT "WOW!!" hahaha i remember that race!

ive been looking for this video everywhere. i think this is the only post of this

You're right, but the closing gap from a fresh tire car and an old tire car was incredibly difference. Not saying Tony had no control of the incident. Tony could've easily checked up, and then passed Kasey outside in 1 and 2.

I remember this like it was yesterday. I have this shit on tape.

no, the difference was that Jr. did it at the initial start of race. At that point, it is not allowed. However on any restart you are allowed to do it, just not the start of the race.

epic fight :) they have officials on the ground. and tony should be fined. he was racing like earnhardt

Personally, I just wish Allen Bestwick was back in the booth.

BS on the "Kasey couldn't dive it into the corner as hard as Tony" excuse. They weren't even close to the entrance to turn 1 and Tony just flat ran Kasey over.

4:50 tells the story, tony obviously tried to back off when he got to his bumper. If the rookie could drive faster then he would have been fine.

the funny part is Kahne and Stewart were cool about it

MIND: BLOWNED SINCE DAYTONA 1979

"The 9 had to back out early, the 20 just wasn't expecting it" Bulls---. Tony just wrecked him.

Cant belive it was 5 years ago, seems like it was just yesterday.

@MrHartfordHockey what does make jerry punch a doctor?

this was ridiculous. i'm sick of announcers defending drivers. kasey didn't check up or anything, tony just planted him in the wall.

I don't really understand what they are talking about. They weren't even close to the point where they had to lift. Stewart just plain ran into Kahne. They were a few hundred yards from having to get out of the gas for the turn. Especially on a restart since they aren't even up to speed.

ESPN was okay back in the day, but not now. The outbreak of idiots is outrageous.

I'm the biggest Stewart fan ever, and he did do a lot of things to put him not in a position to win races, plus he could have cleared him into 3 at least.

Tires didnt have anything to do with it. Thats an excuse for Tony turning Kasey and i respect both.

Go figure that Kahne gets wrecked while he is leading and could possibly win a race. That's what happened a lot to him in 2004. He would've had an awesome season if a lot of these kinds of races didn't happen to him.

I'll admit that Tony Stewart has a heck of a lot of talent. But not back then. In 2003-2005 Stewart was a huge duchebag. He wrecked everyone and pissed off almost everyone. I cried after this (Being a Kahne fan, what else do you do when his first win get's taken away by a duche?) and basically hated Stewart from then on.

Tommy Baldwin had a right to be mad. Wally, Tony flat wrecked. It wasn't like this was the last 10 laps of the race. Tony dumped him. It didn't look like he slowed down till after he hit Kasey. Doesn't matter why Kasey slowed down. Tony has a brake pedal. And this was the second debatable accident he caused this year. (Aaron's 499 big one being the other).

my bro was car boss for that race jim pohlman. We were all pissed. Stewart didn't do it on purpose, but it was 100 percent his fault. Stewart has a dominating car that day and the only driver that could possibly win was kasey kahne that day. And for anybody that's saying they are good buddies tony and kanhne at the time this happened they did not like each other. THey had an incident at darlington earlier that year and kasey didn't think much of stewart after that.

That's why IndyCar isn't popular. You can't even block without a penalty. You think people don't love to watch their favorite drivers/teams care this much? I have a hard time seeing people agreeing with you here. People love to see drama/action.

Wally... Ugh. They weren't near the corner yet, and on a restart or the initial start, you don't lift until the middle of the corner. Tony just flat wrecked Kahne, Kasey didn't lift in the middle of the straightaway.

Sorry Wally, Tony flat wrecked him. There was plenty of room on the outside. Instead of going high, Tony dumped Kasey.

I think Tony just misjudged just how close he was to Kasey. Racing deal, a deal that could have def been avoided. But just a case of misjudgement.

Benny Parsons was the best! He explained everything so everyone could understand. And on this like he told Wally...No..But Wally needs to be quiet a lot more. Benny should have done more talking and Wally LESS...BP was the best when he was on ESPN

What a jerk Stewart was in that race.

I remember I hated Tony for like a year after this lol

The rule before the double-file restart was you could pass on the right, as long as you maintained pace car speed until the restart box....

How many times did Wally say "tires" in this clip?

Don't forget the fall Charlotte race that year. He led over 200 laps, then cut a tire while leading and crashed.

I HATED Tony Stewart for a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time after this race.

A little more of give and a little less of take would had stopped that from happening. Personally, this incident made me respect Tommy Baldwin so much. Maybe things went a wee bit too far, but It is nice to have a crew chief who will fight for his driver. Heck, I would be mad too if my $150,000 racecar gets destroyed like that. I only hope for success for Tommy Baldwin Racing in the future.

That's the thing, though. Kahne didn't check up. Stewart just ran into him. It's not like Stewart wasn't slowing getting closer and closer to the 9 or Kahne suddenly slowed down.

1:15/6:42 Days of Thunder in a nutshell

Jeremy Mayfield: Not even once

It looked like there was room on the outside for Tony to pass Kasey. Why he didn’t go there…makes no sense.

Amen to that. I am a Kahne fanas well. I despise Tony Stewart. There is a fine lin between intimidating and being a jerk. Tony Stewart has crossed that line way too many times.

Thats what happens when you gamble for 2 tires and track position. The faster car with 4 tires can drive it deeper into the corner. Khane was loose before Tony got to him. You can see his car wiggle before he gets turned. Baldwin was fighting for his job with now defunct Ray Evernham Racing. It looks like he picked the wrong team to mix it up with. Thats him in the bottom of the pile. LOL.

For those of you computer chair race car drivers out there still fighting over this in 2013, here's what ACTUALLY happened: Stewart was right on Kahne JUST as Kasey was shifting from third to fourth gear. When he did, the car both unsettled and slowed slightly. This caused Kahne to stay off the throttle just a few tenths of a second longer than normal with a shift in gears. Tony was too close and had already gotten to fourth gear and hit Kasey at the exact wrong moment. That's what caused it.

miss u very much bp, RIP

I'm so fucking tired of announcers saying something was a "racing deal" and trying to excuse the drivers. Khane didn't let off. Tony just drove In there and planted him in the wall. No excuse.

wally talks about tires corners and bullshit but they werent even in the corner when tony dumped him

Kasey and Tony have been good friends since this race, plus that was Kyle who came up at Daytona this year.

So if your car is faster than someone in front of you because they're on older tires, just slam into the rear of their car. Nothing wrong with that at all.

He said "tires" well over ten times.

tony has been taking out too many people. Kahne Chicagoland/2004 Bowyer Pocono/2006 Busch Daytona/2009 NASCAR needs to sit him out a race or two.

Typical Tony back in those days, he's gotten a little bit cleaner now, though. Come on though Wally, the tires didn't just drive into the back of Kahne.

What is up with Wally Dallenbach and his love for tires?!

In the words of Dale Earnhardt Sr. "They oughta fine that son of bitch and make him sit out the rest of the year!" LOL Just messin

I saw the Kahne wiggle right before the contact

His car was str8 as an arrow b4 their was contact. Most people don't remember this but these two drivers didn't like each other at this point they had a beef with each other at Darlington earlier in the year. The fact is Stewart just plain spun him out. The only car that was going to beat the 20 car that day was the 9. Stewart saw that yellow sticker on his back bumper and didn't cut him a break.

@Chuckn22 that #99 is Jeff Burton

I thought that a car couldnt advance position before the finish line unless if the rules were different in 04

This crash appears as a Dodge Challenge in NASCAR 06: Total Team Control with Mayfield

NASCAR needs to just keep out of the "Uncertain" contact incidents. Now Edwards this weekend was in intentional wreck, but didn't intend for him to flip. Shit does happen att 185 MPH and the WING needs to go BTW

I noticed that this wreck might possibly have something to do with tires.

i wonder if goodyear paid wally to mention tires multiple times

HAHAH!! a bug flew right in the video camera at 4:21..lol

not to metion when he spun andy hillenbrug at darlington and kasey at rockingham

i personally really liked it back then

Did u hear tires in the video?

BP and Alan were the only guys that knew what they were talking about. TNT (NBC/TNT) is a load of crap, now.

@canadasimpsons555 edwards didnt start racing until 2005 and a few races in 04 but burton still had the ride at this time

yeah i started loving nascar in like 2000. And NBC/TNT seemed to make it dramatic which it is and i would look foward to watching the whole race back then. And I was born in 1997. Now i cant watch the whole thing, its too boring on tv

another thing that got nailed what the bee that hit jeremy mayfields car at 4:22 lol

Stewart and Kahne are good buddies now so I could careless about this incident

I like both of these guys and tony dumped him on purpose flat out!!!

They were no where near T1 when tony slammed into kahne.

I always liked that AOL car : D

I swear, Tony Stewart is the most unfair and whiny driver there. If he feels he should wreck someone for no reason, he shouldn't be on the track. He should have been fucking penalized. Khane should have rammed him the next week.

Did u think the crash happened because of tires?

im so tired of TV always defending drivers saying it was just an accident. so blatant, its pathetic

shoulda won a lot of races that year ( Chicago, Dover, Rockingham?, Lowes 500 )

How is that fact? Ratings in NASCAR are far and away what IndyCar is and that's a fact. People love to see drama, action, etc. When drivers have to worry about a penalty for BLOCKING... then it isn't even racing. Fighting is the part of the sport, you see it all over the country every Saturday night at your local short track. Why take it away? NASCAR would rather see fighting than using cars to "fight".

Same for you, bud.

Stewart just jumped the restart and plowed Kahne. im not a fan of either of them, but that's just what happened

every time if kasey is in the lead he crashes

@nascarfanatic2425 I know one of them races should've been a win- that being the MBNA 400: a Salute to Heroes. Kasey Kahne would've had one hell of a coming out party if a lot of them DNF's were top-5's or even wins. Another race I think he could've won was the UAW-GM Quality 500. His car was STRONG that night. Then the sophmore slump killed his momentum, but then I believe he was the winningest driver in 2006, if I'm right.

Have at it boys! But Stewart didn't do anything wrong. He just got to the bumper of Kasey Kahne, and because Kahne doesn't have new tires, Kahne gets loose and goes into the outside wall. I would be mad if I was that situation, but it's not all Tony's fault.

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