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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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).
ReadCINCINNATI (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.
ReadTony 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.
ReadIt 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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