Given their mutual admiration exhibited Sunday at Indianapolis, one almost expected to learn that Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart are tighter than ticks.
Wait a minute — there's plenty of evidence this buddy-buddy business wasn't always the case.
Stewart last week looked back at his history and issued this verdict. He had been, he said, rough as a saw blade. As if he has changed. Whiskey, wine and cheese mellow with age. Smoke doesn't.
So the notion of these two great drivers sharing s'mores and singing "Kumbaya" is laughable. Sure, they get along well now, but as with most things involving Stewart there is a history.