#2-Rusty Wallace, 48, and #12-Ryan Newman, 27, had a falling out last fall at Martinsville Speedway. They haven't talked about it since, and the animosity between them has festered. Their strained relationship is generating a fair amount of banter and media attention during Daytona testing. During a Dodge dinner Tuesday night, Wallace was asked if he received a Christmas present from Newman. He laughed, raised an eye and gave a definite ``no.' A week earlier, Newman was asked how things are going with Wallace. "We're just peachy,' he said wryly.

(Tampa Tribune)

redriderbob

 

Time for both of them to get a reality check. They are teammates and with the Daytona 500 they'll both need all the help they can get. In other words they both need to grow up!

 

Rusty Wallace said he's planning a meeting with teammate Ryan Newman "to defuse" things before the season starts. Newman and Wallace had some run-ins last season, most notably at Martinsville. "What I want is respect," Wallace said. Wallace is a part-owner of the Penske South team.

(Winston Salem Journal)

redriderbob

 

Sounds like sour grapes to me. Out with the old and in with the new.