Stewart's stark warning.

Reigning Nextel Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart gave NASCAR a stark warning about the risks involved in the current style of restrictor plate racing, saying that someone is going to get killed at either Daytona or Talladega as a result of bump drafting.

Although Stewart is one of the most successful restrictor plate racers on the current Nextel Cup grid and his third place finish in last Sunday's Budweiser Shootout at Daytona came in a race that saw the driver of the #20 Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet give several drivers a major 'bump-drafts,' when speaking to pit lane reporters from TV station NBC/TNT after the race, Stewart got serious.

"We're going to kill somebody," Stewart told the pit road reporter. "Someone else is going to die at Daytona or Talladega with what we are doing here, I hope I'm not around when it happens."

Stewart's stark warning comes as the fifth anniversary of Dale Earnhardt's death at Daytona and while nobody else has gone that far in their warnings to NASCAR, even Earnhardt's son and Stewart's friend Dale Earnhardt Jr said that the current style of racing isn't an enjoyable experience.

"It's not necessarily what you want to be in the middle of, but it's a necessary evil," stated Earnhardt Jr in a later TV interview on NBC/TNT. "You can't race restrictor plate racing without doing it. You have to do it or else we'd be single file and no one would watch that, it's just dangerous."