BRISTOL, Tenn. -- There is definitely no love lost between Tony Stewart and Goodyear.

Less than a week after Stewart blasted Goodyear's tire at Atlanta, a company executive said that Stewart will likely never be invited to participate in another tire test.

However, that has little to nothing to do with last week's outburst.

"Tony was invited to the Las Vegas tire test in December because he was very vocal with his displeasure with the Las Vegas racetrack and our tire recommendation previously," said Greg Stucker, director of race tire sales. "So we said, 'Hey, we understand that. We want you to be involved in this test.'

"Well, he was there, but I'll say he probably wasn't really involved. He wasn't into it. But if he's not going to be more constructive than he has been recently or he was at that test, no, he won't be at tire testing."

Stucker, who was at the test in question, said Stewart made it clear that he had canceled other plans to be there after finding out late that he was to attend. Stucker also said "he really wasn't very cooperative in terms of giving us feedback."

After being notified of Stucker's comments, Stewart denied neither charge. He also doesn't seem all that torn up about the possibility of not being invited back.

"I don't like tire testing anyway," Stewart said yesterday after practice. "It's more days out of our schedule. There's a reason that they have to do it obviously, but the drivers, the teams don't really get anything for doing it other than taking two days out of their schedule. . . . We can give them all the feedback that we want, but very rarely, there [are] very few times that we give them our input and they actually bring back what we recommend, so it makes it frustrating to want to go try to help a company that doesn't take the input that you give them anyway and listen to what you have to say."

Stucker said the drivers' input is important, and Goodyear combines that with the gathered data to determine the tires that will be chosen for each race.

Stewart didn't back down yesterday from his reaction last week. He met with Goodyear's Stu Grant, the general manager of worldwide racing, after talking to the media, and both came out saying the right things about the meeting. Stewart said he's not interested in talking about it any more; he just wants to see results.

"The thing is that you shouldn't have to get to that point," Stewart said yesterday of his post-race outburst. "The problem is that we've been in this situation with them before and trying to do it the right way and trying to do it behind closed doors and trying to be politically correct about it, but we didn't get results. Obviously this week it got somebody's attention that can do something and make a difference now.

"I don't want to hear what they're doing, I don't want to hear what they want to do, I don't want to hear what they're planning on doing -- I just want to see what happens and see what the end result of that is. As long as that's a better deal, then we'll be back on their side, but they have some work to do."