They laughed uproariously through a radio show, whimsically straightened each others' ties in view of the news media before a news conference and tossed lighthearted compliments during a season-ending awards ceremony.


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Tony Stewart and Juan Pablo Montoya tied a bow on their offseason love-fest in Las Vegas after NASCAR completed its first victory lap down Sin City's famous Strip. After climbing out of their show cars that mimicked their Sprint Cup models, Stewart draped an arm around Montoya, and the pair smiled widely, looking like two buddies ready to conquer Las Vegas Boulevard for a weekend bender of debauchery, frivolity and camaraderie in sponsor-plastered red fire suits. These were the same guys who were exchanging 12-letter vulgarities, dirty looks and sheet-metal-bending messages of mayhem at 190 mph two weeks earlier at Homestead-Miami Speedway? Dale Earnhardt Jr. wasn't buying the niceties.

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