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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 April 2009

 

Talladega Photos

The Aaron’s 499 at Talladega Superspeedway on April 26, 2009.

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Late-Race Engine Woes Hamper Stewart at ‘Dega

Tony Stewart was headed toward another top-10 finish in Sunday’s Aaron’s 499 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway until a late-race engine problem dropped him from eighth to 23rd in the final rundown.

The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) bided his time and stayed out of trouble for much of the 188-lap race. It wasn’t until lap 136 that Stewart cracked the top-10, and as the draft ebbed and flowed, Stewart rose to as high as second and fell to as low as 20th.

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Phoenix Photos

Subway Fresh Fit 500 at Phoenix International Raceway on April 18, 2009.

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Smoke Rises from Phoenix

Tony Stewart inched ever closer to his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victory as a driver/owner after finishing a season-best second in Saturday night’s Subway Fresh Fit 500k at Phoenix International Raceway. The driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS also earned the best finish to date for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), the two-car team Stewart co-owns with Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world.

“I’m just happy for everybody from Office Depot, Old Spice and Haas Automation that believed in me when I had this idea of starting this deal last year,” said Stewart, who led once for a total 19 laps in the 312-lap race, bringing his season total to 53 laps led. “We’re getting there, man. I’m telling you, we’re so close. We’re going to get us a win here soon. We’re not going to let our fans down.”

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Tony Stewart Swagger Commerical

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Texas Photos

Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway on April 5, 2009.

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Momentum from Martinsville Continues at Texas

After scoring his career best finish as a driver/owner in last weekend’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, Tony Stewart was poised to improve upon that third-place effort with a win in Sunday’s Samsung 500 at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth.

The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) led four times for 16 laps on the 1.5-mile Texas oval, and with 25 laps remaining in the 334-lap race, had a shot at scoring that much-desired victory. But when the checkered flag dropped, Stewart was the fourth driver across the stripe. It wasn’t a win, but it was his ninth top-10 finish in 15 career Sprint Cup starts at Texas.

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