iNSIDE SCOOP: Nothing to See Here...

We can talk all day about how good the Toyota Owners 400 at Richmond turned out to be.

We won't, but we could.

We'll talk about what everyone else is talking about: Marcos "Tasmanian Devil" Ambrose vs. Casey "Desert Lightning" Mears.

As post-race duels go, it was pretty good. 

Mears shoved Ambrose while the two "discussed" some stuff that happened on the track. He kept doing it until Ambrose let go with a thunderous right-hand that stunned the challenger, knocked his hat off and extended the fight for a few more moments.

Mears showed up the next day at Huntersville, N.C. for a charity 5K run by Jimmie Johnson sporting a shiner of cosmic proportions.

Ambrose, it seems, was not anywhere on Sunday, at least in public.

First of all, boys will be boys, and they will have at it now and again. It's a guy thing.

Second, Mears started the ball and Ambrose ended it.

Third, there's a race next Sunday at Talladega and both will be in it...probably a bit lighter in the hip pocket.

There's a pretty neat sign making the rounds on Twitter today. It hangs at a track somewhere, notionally, and it reads: Get in a fight in the pit area, you go to jail; get in a fight on the front stretch, you get $100.

It wasn't the pit area, it was the garage area, and there were enough people around so that it didn't get too rambunctious.

What are we all talking about today?

Give them both $100.

Short tracks breed contempt among drivers who have been beating and banging and bouncing each other around for three hours. You get to the point where you're so mad at another driver for something he did, you'll go talk with blood in your eye.

Sometimes, this happens.

Personally, a good donnybrook is sometimes necessary. It relieves a little tension, blows out the carburetor jets, if you know what I mean.

Mears said later that the two got into it over some moves they made, and he put the blame about even on both drivers.

In other words, move along, nothing to see here. It happened, I got popped, now it's on to Talladega.

And that's the way it should be.

Having been in among a few knuckle-dusters in the pits at various tracks, including Charlotte, I can tell you it isn't fun if you don't have a dog in the fight. Stuff gets knocked over, people get hurt, generally not a good scene.

But sometimes, when you need to express yourself, the physical is not a bad way to do it.

NASCAR should make a statement to that effect, deploring the incident and warning both drivers to shape up or ship out. Public censoriousness can be a good thing. 

It might even add a small monetary penalty both ways.

Whatever that amount is, NASCAR should subtract $100 on each side, just for the show and the buzz.