October 26, 2009
Martinsville Pictures
The Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville Speedway on October 25, 2009.
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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.
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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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