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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 June 2010

 

June 28, 2010

Stewart Scores Second the Hard Way at New Hampshire

Late-Race Rally Gives Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Fourth Top-Five of 2010

Tony Stewart snared an impressive second-place finish the hard way in Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.

The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) had to come from as far back as 33rd in the 43-car field because he was off-sequence from the rest of his competitors on pit stops.

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June 21, 2010

Stewart Earns Hard-Fought Ninth at Sonoma

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Scores Seventh Top-10 of 2010, Moves to 10th in Points

Tony Stewart and the Office Depot/Old Spice team fought their way to a solid ninth-place finish in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350k NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

It was the third consecutive top-10 result for Stewart and his fifth straight top-15 finish dating back to the May race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.

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June 14, 2010

Stewart Fights to Fifth at Michigan; Back in Chase

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Scores Sixth Top-10 of 2010, Moves to 11th in Points

Tony Stewart and the Old Spice/Office Depot team of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) finished a solid fifth in Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.

It was the second consecutive top-five result for Stewart as he finished third last week at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. More importantly, it moved the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala from 13th in the championship standings to 11th, putting him inside the elite 12-driver Chase for the championship by 57 points over 13th- place Clint Bowyer, which will be finalized in 11 more Sprint Cup races.

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June 8, 2010

Youth is Served in Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway

The Gillette Young Guns Join Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Other Racing Stars in a Return to the Dirt in Support of Four Children’s Hospitals

Wednesday, June 9 Live on HBO Pay-Per-View®

SPEEDWAY, Ind. (April 20, 2010) – On Wednesday, June 9, the most celebrated dirt track in all of motorsports will host the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream. Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, will once again be the site of the all-star dirt Late Model race featuring more than 25 world renowned drivers as they battle for dirt supremacy on the half-mile clay oval, all of which will be presented live to the entire nation on HBO Pay-Per-View® with proceeds from the telecast supporting four of the nation’s top children’s hospitals:

• Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis: www.RileyChildrensHospital.com
• Cincinnati Children’s: www.CincinnatiChildrens.org
• Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C.: www.LevineChildrensHospital.org
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.: www.StJude.org

The sixth annual event will be headlined by the Gillette Young Guns: Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Joey Logano. All will join Stewart and many others, including fellow Sprint Cup champions Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte and Bill Elliott.

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June 7, 2010

Stewart Fuels Way to Third at Pocono

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Only One Point Away From Cracking Top-12

The Poconos aren’t exactly gambling meccas, but you wouldn’t know it by watching Tony Stewart race around the 2.5-mile triangle that is Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. That’s because Stewart and crew chief Darian Grubb have rolled the dice on their fuel mileage in back-to-back June visits to Pocono and come away with a win and a third-place finish, the latter of which was earned in Sunday’s Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

“We’ll take that finish,” said Stewart, who started the race in sixth but fought an ill-handling racecar for much of the event, which had him mired in the teens. “Not a beautiful day by any means, but we got where we needed to in the end. We got some track position and we had a pretty good car when we got there.”

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