DOVER, Del. -- The latest episode of Tony Stewart and Kurt Busch's on-track antics unfolded Monday at Dover International Speedway, and it once again ruined potential winning runs for both men.

But the most fortunate aspect of the day, for both teams but mostly for Busch and Stewart's jack man Jason Lee, was that Busch's No. 2 Penske Racing Dodge didn't strike Lee when Busch intentionally ran into Stewart's car, which was parked on pit road (watch video).

Busch was penitent afterward.

"I wanted to make a point, but when you make a point like that it always ends up making it worse," Busch said. "It was my fault for doing that. The issue was out on the racetrack. It was not on pit road."

Lee, who said Busch "probably" would have hit him, wasn't in a mood to accept any apology.

"I was working on our car and I just saw our car start moving, I looked up and saw [Busch] in the side of it," Lee said. "Who knows what he was thinking, [but] he just needs to think about things before you do stuff like that. I didn't do anything to him, and I wasn't involved in the incident."

"What matters is they want pit-road safety and they got a guy doing a bonehead move like that," Lee said. "We all got families to go home to at night. If he's got a problem with Tony he needs to take it up with Tony in the motorhome lot after the race, and not jeopardize these crew guys out there.

"They all want pit road safety, and we have to wear helmets and fire suits, but you can't combat [a car]. Ninety-nine percent of incidents on pit road are caused by impatience or a mad driver. They need to get away from that. Those guys don't think about it when they're strapped in a racecar. But if they were out of the racecar and on the other end they'd think differently about it."

Crew chief Greg Zipadelli was upset as well.

"I just saw [Busch] come down [pit road] and run into the side of the car," Zipadelli said. "That's pretty stupid when there are other people out there. Obviously, there was no give-and-take out there and that's why we're in the situation we were in."

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.

"It just doesn't make much sense. I've never tried to wreck him; I've had plenty of chances to wreck the guy. That's not what it was about. It's about racing people with respect and he hasn't done that with anybody for a year."

Stewart said he was reluctant to back off of Busch's bumper.

"You get to the point where you're tired of giving a guy the position," he said. "Most of the guys are good. There are only a couple bad apples out there and he's one of them.

"When you got guys that you let go every time they get you and they don't do the same thing. When the roles are reversed, you get tired of it [and] you finally race those guys they way they race you.

"You don't see me have problems with Mark Martin or the guys who run up front every week. It's Kurt Busch and a select other few that do that. His brother [Kyle] figured it out and his brother and I get along great.

"This is a sport that's so competitive you can't afford to give guys positions all the time if they're not going to give it back for you. I'm going to race guys the way they race me. I've adopted Matt Kenseth's policy of racing guys the way they race me. [Busch] never was clear, came off the corner and crashed both of us."

Stewart ended the race in 40th, while Busch was classified 42nd, after 38 cars were running at the finish. Despite the poor finishes, Stewart dropped only one position in the standings, from sixth to seventh, while Busch dropped from ninth to 11th.

"I don't have problems with 95 percent of the guys out there," Stewart said. "It's only a couple."