Ahh, nothing like a little NASCAR name calling to spice up the week.

Kyle Busch called Ryan Newman an “ogre.” Newman threatened to rearrange Busch’s face and “fix it.”

All that’s missing is the principal to come break things up.

Busch and Newman are the latest drivers to feud following a dust-up at New Hampshire. Newman was involved in a pair of incidents with the Busch brothers that triggered the verbal sparring immediately after the race.

Newman was part of an accident that took out race leader Kurt Busch. Later in the race, he made contact with Kyle.

“I really hated that Kurt got tore up,” Busch said. “I felt like he had the best car. And was proud of them guys but, man, just stupidity. I mean Ryan Newman’s the biggest stupid idiot out here, and he’s a big ogre and can do whatever he wants because he can probably kick anybody’s butt. So no sense in getting in a fight with him, but glad he’s out of a job.”

Stewart-Haas Racing is giving Newman the boot at the end of the season to make room for Kevin Harvick.

Newman responded the next day on SiriusXM with some jabs of his own.

“I’m just afraid if I rearranged his face, I might fix it,” he said. “We know that he’s not very bright. He’s a heck of a talent but he’s not very bright. And I’ll leave it at that.”

But wait, there’s more.

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THREE TIMES A WINNER: With three wins in one week, Scott Dixon is suddenly in very lofty company in the IndyCar record books.

He won at Pocono on July 7 for his first win of the season, then added two more last weekend in the doubleheader at Toronto to become the winningest active driver in Indy- Car. His 32 career wins ranks seventh all-time behind some of the biggest names in openwheel racing: Three Unsers, two Andrettis, and the alltime leader, A.J. Foyt.

It’s a position Dixon never dreamed he’d be in when the New Zealander joined the Champ Car Series as a 20- year-old in 2001.

“I started this when? I was 20 or 21 — I was probably trying to think of where to go that night instead of what my future was holding,” he said.

With his two wins at Toronto, Dixon passed teammate Dario Franchitti, Paul Tracy and Sebastien Bourdais, who all have 31. But Dixon has a ton of ground to gain on the competition: Tracy has retired from full-time Indy- Car competition and Bourdais is saddled with inferior equipment at Dragon Racing. Franchitti turned 40 this year and nobody knows — including him — how long he’ll continue racing full-time.

Dixon turns 33 next week and has a lot of racing left in his future while driving for Target Chip Ganassi Racing, where he’s been since the fourth race of the 2002 season.

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GET OUT THE WAY!: Helio Castroneves knew he didn’t have the car to catch Scott Dixon in Sunday’s race at Toronto. He figured his only shot was on restarts, and he got two in the final 15 laps.

But IndyCar allows lapped cars to line up with the leaders on restarts before the final 10 laps of the race, and dealing with that traffic cost Castroneves his chance on the second-to-last restart.

It’s a rule the three-time Indianapolis 500 winner wants changed.