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    About Tony

    Tony Stewart is a racer’s racer. If a greyhound, a fighter pilot and a chainsaw sculptor were somehow genetically welded together, reengineered with gasoline and cloned to form a half-carburetor, half-human racing man/machine, Tony would be that man/machine. Tony Stewart was born to race. In other words, if when Tony Stewart was born the doctor told him racing hadn’t been invented yet, he would crawl to the library, teach himself how to read and begin studying how to cryogenically freeze himself long enough for racing to be invented. In 2005, during a race, Tony Stewart got tired and, while taking a nap in the backseat, passed eight cars to clinch the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship.

    If Tony Stewart were in a presidential race, his campaign bus would be a 50-passenger Camaro and people would vote for him because he would promise to do donuts on the White House lawn. The point is: Tony Stewart is a racer.

    In fact, Tony Stewart once raced in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600 in the same day and then drove home to Indiana so he could watch the race highlights of himself racing, only to fall asleep and dream about losing a 40-yard dash to a puma only to wake up, rent a puma and race it in real life.

    What can we say? The guy likes to race.

  2. 2009 Stats

    No.
    Race
    Start
    Finish
    Points
    Pos.
    Laps
    Winnings
    1 Daytona 6 3 n/a n/a 78/78 $60,000
    2 Daytona 6 2 n/a n/a 60/60 $38,188
    3 Daytona 500 5 8 147 7 152/152 $371,371
    4 Auto Club 500 11 8 294 4 250/250 $139,748
    5 Shelby 427 10 26 379 8 283/285 $100,173
    6 Kobalt Tools 500 11 8 521 6 330/330 $96,048
    7 Food City 500 15 17 633 7 502/503 $101,648
    8 Goody's Fast Pain Relief 500 7 3 798 7 500/500 $119,273
    9 Samsung 500 7 4 963 5 334/334 $219,146
    10 Subway Fresh Fit 500 6 2 1138 4 312/312 $183,223
    11 Crown Royal presents the Russ Friedman 400 16 2 1402 3 400/400 $172,773
    12 Southern 500 presented by GoDaddy.com 18 3 1572 2 367/367 $171,696
    13 Charlotte 15 1 n/a n/a 100/100 $1,058,656
    14 Charlotte 28 19 1678 2 227/227 $109,973
    15 Dover 31 2 1853 1 400/400 $215,398
    16 Pocono 1 1 2043 1 200/200 $238,798
    17 Brooklyn 11 7 2189 1 200/200 $109,923
    18 Sonoma 4 2 2364 1 113/113 $211,096
    19 Loudon 1 5 2524 1 273/273 $134,548
    20 Daytona 1 1 2719 1 160/160 $349,873
    21 Joliet 32 4 2884 1 267/267 $165,373
    22 Indianapolis 7 3 3054 1 160/160 $314,573
    23 Pocono 1 10 3188 1 200/200 $105,673
    24 Watkins Glen 13 1 3383 1 90/90 $234,648
    25 Brooklyn 18 17 3500 1 200/200 $97,698
    26 Bristol 30 33 3564 1 489/500 $101,718
    27 Atlanta 12 11 3694 1 325/325 $118,823
    28 Richmond 27 17 5030 2 400/400 $93,473
    29 Loudon 2 14 5156 6 300/300 $100,973
    30 Dover 22 9 5294 5 400/400 $111,423
    31 Kansas City 5 1 5484 4 267/267 $332,498
    32 Fontana 20 5 5644 4 250/250 $143,248
    33 Charlotte 5 13 5768 4 334/334 $100,373
    34 Martinsville 13 9 5906 4 501/501 $99,923
    35 Talladega 4 35 5969 5 183/191 $85,648
    36 Fort Worth 4 6 6119 5 334/334 $181,098
    37 Phoenix 8 25 6207 5 310/312 $86,423
    38 Homestead 5 22 6309 6 267/267 $90,098
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Archive for February 2009

 

California Photos

Auto Club 500 at Auto Club Speedway on February 22, 2009.

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Stewart Snags Second Straight Top-10 in SoCal

Tony Stewart dodged rain showers and a tight-handling racecar to finish a solid eighth in Sunday’s Auto Club 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif.

Stewart, who led once for three circuits in the 250-lap race, scored his eighth top-10 finish in 16 starts at the 2-mile oval. It was also his second consecutive eighth-place finish, as the driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) finished eighth in the season-opening Daytona 500 last Sunday at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. The back-to-back top-10 efforts bumped the two-time Sprint Cup champion into a tie for third in the point standings with Kurt Busch.

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Daytona Photos

Bud Shootout and Daytona 500 at Daytona International Speedway February 7 – 15, 2009.

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Rain Thwarts Stewart’s Bid for Daytona 500 Victory

When eighth-place is your worst finish among the four races you’ve competed in during the 11 days that make up Speedweeks at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway, you can hold your head high. And when you earn that eighth-place finish in a backup racecar after your primary racecar was crashed in the final practice session leading into the season’s biggest race, your accomplishment is even more impressive.

Such was the case for Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR).

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2009 Marks 10th Year of Partnership between Old Spice and Tony Stewart

CINCINNATI (Feb. 13, 2009) – Tony Stewart has waved a sweat- and champagne-soaked towel in NASCAR victory lanes more than 40 times since coming to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series from the IRL IndyCar Series in 1999. And this year is no different as Stewart starts the new season as a driver/owner with his No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS fielded by Stewart-Haas Racing.

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Strong Daytona Speedweeks Continues for Stewart After Finishing Third in Shootout, Nabs Second in Gatorade Duel

Tony Stewart’s countdown to the 51st Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway continued Thursday with a strong second-place finish in the Gatorade Duel – twin qualifying races that set the 43-car field for the season-opening NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

Stewart was one of 56 drivers vying for a spot in the Great American Race, with 28 drivers in each 150-mile sprint.

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Tony Stewart discusses his plans for the season and his strategy for the Daytona 500

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Stewart Solid in Driver/Owner Debut

It took Tony Stewart just 13 laps to lead for the first time as a driver/owner in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.

Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), led laps 13-16 en route to a solid third-place finish in Saturday night’s Budweiser Shootout at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway.

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