CHICAGO -- Tony Stewarts complex personality was on display at media day for NASCARs Chase for the Sprint Cup championship.Stewart was laughing, telling stories of fellow driver Chase Elliott when he was little and gushing over how much fun hes having in his last season before retirement.Stewart also snapped at questions he didnt like and declared it doesnt matter if the drivers he has wrecked in the past two weeks seek payback over the final 10 races.Its time for the Chase now. Its a whole different mindset and a whole different approach each week, Stewart said Thursday. Weve got to go out and worry about what we need to do win a championship, not worry about the other stuff.That other stuff is wrecking rookie Brian Scott two weeks ago and then former teammate Ryan Newman last week, ending Newmans slim chances of making the 16-driver Chase field.Newman blasted Stewart after the race Saturday night at Richmond, calling him bipolar and bringing up the 2014 incident in which Stewart fatally struck a sprint car driver.I guess he thought he was in a sprint car again and didnt know how to control his anger, Newman said.Stewart said hes yet to talk to Newman since, but theyre expected to have a NASCAR-mandated chat before practice Friday at Chicagoland Speedway.It would be easier to take it personal, but that was deciding factor in his season whether he was going to make the Chase or not, Stewart said. Weve been friends a long time and we were teammates, so I respect him a lot. Its a high-pressure moment and Ive been in those, too, and Ive said things.Whether he meant to say it or not or whether he still believes it or not, thats up to him. But that moment is a hard moment for any of us. Its tough in that scenario, so I cant blame him.Stewart then chided a reporter for suggesting the incident could overshadow his bid to win a fourth series championship and his first since 2011. The opening race is Sunday at 1 1/2-mile Chicagoland Speedway.If you think thats going to be a storyline for 10 weeks, then youre going to miss a lot, Stewart said. Youre going to be wasting your time on something thats not even relevant. This Chase is going to be pretty intense in itself.All 16 title-eligible drivers appeared at the media event at the Bridgeport Art Center.Elliott first met Stewart when he was a shy 4-year-old tagging along with his father and former driver, Bill Elliott.For the first three years I knew Chase, I didnt even know he could talk, Stewart said, smiling.Elliott, who replaced the retired Jeff Gordon in the No. 24 Chevrolet, called Stewart someone hes looked up to for a long time.Tony was the first guy, other than my dad, I was ever OK with pulling for, Elliott said. Im glad that he decided to wait one more year because that is a pretty special moment for me to be able to race against one of my heroes like that.Not everyone agrees, however. Stewart has got into incidents with several drivers over the years while displaying a fiery temper.Im not sure that every fan out there loves him or has the relationship that I do with him, said Jimmie Johnson, a six-time champion who is seeking to tie Richard Petty and Dale Earnhardt for most career titles.Hes always been feisty, Johnson added. Theres been more speed in his car, which has been good to see, and its led to some more feistiness I guess.The Chase field includes top-seed and 2015 champion Kyle Busch, four Joe Gibbs Racing drivers and 2014 champion Kevin Harvick.The spotlight, though, will be on Stewart.You have to be on your game right now, he said. You have to be fast, right now, to win this championship.Based on his history, the 45-year-old Stewart wont leave the sport quietly.Its meant more than I thought it would. I was ready at the end of last year to retire, Stewart said. Coming back, we really did it for our fans. We wanted our fans to see us run a last year. 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McGregor taking on the older brother of his biggest rival to date would be a fascinating narrative -- but since Nick is Nates older brother, its a little doubtful hed take a big payday away from him.Just like Nate called Georges St-Pierre one of his brothers fights, Nick might feel the same way about McGregor. But speaking of St-Pierre ...Georges St-PierreIt feels like a long, long time ago St-Pierre showed up cageside at McGregors first fight against Nate Diaz at UFC 196 in March.When something like that happens, speculation is sure to catch fire -- and it did. Fans immediately envisioned posters of McGregor and St-Pierre squaring off. And even though you figure that fight would have to take place at 170 pounds, you also figure its one McGregor would move up for.But McGregors loss to Diaz, the subsequent rematch and St-Pierres contract situation with the UFC (the two sides were unable to come to a deal that would have brought him back at UFC 206) have made the whole thing a bit clouded.At the end of the day, its a money fight for both and thats enough to make it a very real possibility. But theres also one more option for McGregor ...Take a breakMcGregor zigs when others zag. When Aldo pulled out of their scheduled title fight at UFC 189 last year, McGregor took a fight against Mendes and risked his title shot, something others wouldnt have done. He did the same thing in March, when he fought Diaz after Rafael dos Anjos got injured.He has kept up an insane pace for two years. We tend to break up things in calendar years, but if you look strictly at the past 12 months for McGregor, youd be looking at a year that is arguably one of the most unbelievable in combat sports history.So, although it goes against traditional thinking, consider a 12-month break to recharge and let the chips fall -- they do say absence makes the heart grow fonder. And McGregor has teased some kind of announcement after this weekend.McGregor has said he always intended to set the game on fire and then be gone. Maybe gone can be applied in a temporary sense. Hes a brilliant businessman, and part of business is supply and demand. Remove supply, demand tends to go up. ' ' '