As already covered, the combination of Tony Stewart and Darian Grubb brought home a Sprint Cup title.
But by that point, so it appears, Grubb already knew he was out of a job.
Some perspective is required to make sense of firing (and then reversing?) a now-championship crew chief.
Tony Stewart is a hard-charger, driven to success and quick to strike when frustration mounts. Frustration brings out both the best and the worst in Tony, and prior to the Chase itself, this season was almost nothing but frustration for the #14 team as a whole.
It looks like maybe Grubb, like his driver and employer, also excels under pressure.
Grubb has argued that the team rallied together, closer than before, once word came down that he was out. It happens, but now the real questions begin...
...given the position he was in before, would he *want* to stay at Stewart-Haas Racing, in any capacity? Is this family man willing to walk what he now knows is a knife's edge?
Tony is enough of a man to own up to what now appears to be a premature, if not outright bad, call. But he's still Tony. When the frustration mounts again, the same situation might rear its ugly head.
I greatly respect Tony, and I greatly respect Darian. But there are definitely two different personalities in the mix here. How willing to forgive (no option to forget)?
...And on the geeky side, what exactly is it going to take for motorsports teams to start looking at interpersonal relations in some fashion that isn't akin to shuffling a deck and 'defined' by vague terms like 'chemistry'?? (Why yes, I am teaching industrial psychology next semester; what gave it away?)
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