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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 March 2009

 

March 30, 2009

Martinsville Photos

Goody’s Cool Orange 500 at Martinsville Speedway on March 29, 2009.

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March 29, 2009

Stewart Secures Best Finish for SHR at Martinsville

Tony Stewart scored Stewart-Haas Racing’s first top-10 finish in the season-opening Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway with a solid eighth-place effort. It took just five more races for the driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS to score the team’s first top-three result, as Stewart brought home a strong third-place finish in Sunday’s Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.

It marked Stewart’s fourth top-10 finish just six races into the 2009 season – his 11th year in Sprint Cup but first as a driver/owner with Stewart-Haas Racing.

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March 23, 2009

Bristol Photos

Food City 500 at Bristol Motor Speedway on March 22, 2009.

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March 22, 2009

Stewart Snares 17th at Bristol

The Food City 500 at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway has typically been a feast or famine affair for Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. But after finishing 17th in Sunday’s 500-lap race at Bristol, Stewart left the .533-mile oval neither ravenous nor full.

In the past three Food City 500s – NASCAR’s spring visit to Volunteer Country – Stewart has seen victory snatched away from him. The two-time Sprint Cup champion has led a whopping 769 laps of the 1,510 laps available (50.9 percent). Yet, all Stewart had to show for his efforts were finishes of 12th, 35th and 14th.

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March 9, 2009

Atlanta Photos

Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway on March 8, 2009.

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March 8, 2009

Figure Eights

In the four NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races run thus far in 2009, Tony Stewart has finished eighth in three of them. The driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) nabbed his most recent eighth-place result in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 500 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga.

Getting that result, however, was far from easy. Stewart came from two laps down in the 330-lap contest – extended five laps past its scheduled distance due to a green-white-checkered finish – and clawed his way to his 13th top-10 finish in 21 career Sprint Cup starts at Atlanta.

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March 2, 2009

Las Vegas Photos

Shelby 427 at Las Vegas Motor Speedway on March 1, 2009

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March 1, 2009

Stewart Shows His Hand at Las Vegas

On most afternoons following a 26th-place finish, Tony Stewart is none too pleased. But as a driver/owner with Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) – the team he co-owns with Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world – Stewart sees the big picture with 20/15 vision.

The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for SHR finished 26th in Sunday’s Shelby 427 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway. That result, however, was not indicative of his performance, or that of his teammate, Ryan Newman.

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