Defending NASCAR Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart had both his hands full at the Chicagoland Speedway last weekend, but not in the way you may think….

Just moments before the race began, Stewart was captured on video by ESPN putting both hands on the…rear deck-lid of DeLana Harvick, who happens to be the wife of fellow NASCAR driver Kevin Harvick.

Despite jumping in surprise, DeLana didn’t seem to be so annoyed, and before you jump into any twisty conclusions, you may want to hear what the three-time Sprint Cup champion had to say about the much publicized episode.

“This is old news,” Stewart said Tuesday morning during a promotional news conference at Charlotte Motor Speedway. “I guess it’s just the first time the camera caught us, but we’ve been doing that since I was driving the Nationwide car with them.”

“It seems like this week when it got caught on camera, it was a lot bigger deal for some reason. I didn’t even know that anybody even saw it,” he said. “It wasn’t something that was out of the norm for us. Kevin comes up and gets me, I get DeLana, DeLana gets both of us.”

“We’re always messing around. I drove for them for a long time and have got a great friendship with them. It always makes her jump. It’s just something that we’ve always joked around and talked about it being good luck. It’s normally good luck for us. You do what works. I’m just glad picking my nose wasn’t that thing that was good luck. You’ve got to do what works.”

You can watch Stewart getting some piece of his friend’s wife in the video that follows below the jump.

Story References: ESPN

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