Birds and cars

When Jimmie Johnson pinched Tony Stewart into the wall at Atlanta Motor Speedway, Johnson said he was impressed with the way Stewart saved the car, then proceeded to give him the finger afterward.
Stewart said he did not give Johnson the finger.
"I didn't shoot him off. I got my fist out there and that's just the heat of the battle," said Stewart, driver of the No. 20 Chevrolet for Joe Gibbs Racing. "When it was over it was over and by the time we got to the airport I'd calmed down. That shows you just how much we both want to win. Jimmie and I are really good friends and I'd rather be mad at him than any of the other guys so like I said, it was either go ahead and push the issue and both of us crash or back off and end up second."
As for the Car of Tomorrow, Stewart still doesn't have many nice things to say about it.
"I still think it's ugly," Stewart said. "They're all ugly but at least everybody's cars look ugly. We all look evenly ugly. I still don't think they look that good. I couldn't watch that Busch practice and see what a stock car is supposed to look like versus a sports car."