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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 2010

 

April 26, 2010

Time lapse video of Matterhorn car!

Check out this cool time lapse video of Tony’s Matterhorn car being painted.

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April 26, 2010

Stewart Survives Talladega

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Finishes 16th in Crash-Marred Race

It was far from an official win, but in a garage area surrounded by damaged racecars from a crash-marred Aaron’s 499, Tony Stewart’s 16th-place finish in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway was a victory, nonetheless. Crew chief Darian Grubb said it best: “We survived Talladega.”

In a race that saw eight caution periods for 32 laps – four of which came in the race’s last 24 laps – survival was the name of the game. Yet, Stewart’s No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot “Matterhorn” Chevrolet still showed some game as it led one lap early in the 200-lap event and was a part of a handful of charges to the front, the last of which put him second on lap 180 thanks to some helpful pushing from Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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April 20, 2010

Late Accident Ends Stewart’s Promising Day at Texas

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Leads 74 Laps, but Finishes Disappointing 32nd

A day that began with a lot of promise and a start from the pole ended with a wrecked Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala and a disappointing 32nd-place finish for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) driver/owner Tony Stewart.

The Columbus, Ind., native led five times for 74 laps in Monday’s rain-postponed Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, but Stewart’s 400th career Sprint Cup start ended badly when he was involved in a late-race multi-car accident that left him with his first DNF (Did Not Finish) of 2010.

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April 12, 2010

Stewart Wins and Loses at Phoenix

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Finishes 23rd, but Teammate Newman Wins

Tony Stewart won Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway, but not in the traditional way that most view the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet. In fact, Stewart the driver finished 23rd in the Subway Fresh Fit 600k NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the 1-mile oval. Stewart the owner, however, got to stop in victory lane to congratulate his Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) teammate Ryan Newman on his first win as a member of SHR.

“As a driver, I hate the way I ran tonight. But as an owner, I’m very happy for Ryan, Tony Gibson (crew chief) and everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing for getting that ‘39’ car into victory lane,” said Stewart, who co-owns SHR with Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world. “They’ve worked so hard. They certainly earned this win. Just a really good win for all of our partners, especially Tornados, the U.S. Army and Haas Automation.”

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