Stewart's crew smoking after pit hazard with Busch (cont'd)

Busch's action resulted in him being immediately parked by NASCAR for "aggressive driving." He was also called to the NASCAR hauler for a post-race meeting that included Nextel Cup Series director John Darby, vice president for competition Robin Pemberton and NASCAR president Mike Helton.

Per standard procedure, a NASCAR spokesman said any further action would be determined following NASCAR's weekly post-event competition meetings.

Lap-by-Lap

Kurt Busch and Tony Stewart made contact on Lap 271, but their feud carried to pit road, after which Busch was parked.

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Lee said he was comfortable with whatever NASCAR did going forward.

"I didn't know that they parked him [because] we were worried about fixing our own car," Lee said. "I don't know what they're going to do about it. That's for [NASCAR] to decide and they'll do the right thing with it."

The altercation, which Busch said had been brewing for several restarts and a number of laps, came to a head on Lap 271 when Busch and Stewart were racing for position in the middle of the top 10, in a line with Greg Biffle and Denny Hamlin.

After a number of laps of sparring with Stewart, Busch drove underneath him going through Turns 3 and 4. But coming off Turn 4, the pair made contact.

Stewart's left-front fender caught Busch's right-rear corner as Busch tried to pull up in front of Stewart, which turned Busch into the outside frontstretch wall and caused Stewart to slap the concrete broadside.

Busch spun down the frontstretch and eventually came to rest on the apron in Turn 1. When the caution flew, Stewart came to pit road before Busch, and parked in his pit stall to check his car's damage.

Lee had come around the front of Stewart's car to check the damage to the corner when Busch rolled into Stewart's pit box, parallel to the No. 20 but at a slight angle, Lee had to jump over the right-front corner to avoid Busch, whose car stopped touching Stewart's.

Busch then backed up, turned away from Stewart's car and drove to the garage area, where he was held by NASCAR officials for the rest of the 400-lap race.

"I raced the guy all day long and for some reason he just didn't give an inch," Busch said. "We were racing real well, 10-15 laps side by side and I had about 90 percent of my car past him and he wrecked me flat out.

"I was maybe not clear by a few inches, but he bumped me on another restart -- he hit me on another restart. I have no idea what Tony Stewart had for us [Monday]. He finally wrecked me. He got accomplished what he wanted to do. I'm still very confused by it.

"I saw a ton of cars stack up in the mirror behind us, which meant we were racing way too hard. He didn't want to give an inch."

Stewart followed Busch to the garage but remained in his car and declined to comment while it was repaired.

Stewart returned to the race during its sixth caution period -- from laps 338-342 -- and came back on track in 41st position, 63 laps behind leader Ryan Newman.

Stewart circulated long enough to pick up one position and then returned to the garage, where he exited his car and had an extended Q&A session with the media, in which he made his points perfectly clear.

"He wasn't clear off of [Turn] 4. It's a shame," Stewart said. "We were racing him the way he's been racing us for a whole year. He's raced us every lap like it pays a million dollars. (Continued)