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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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November 23, 2009

Stewart’s Chances of Winning Go South in South Florida

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Leads 43 Laps, but Finishes Disappointing 22nd in Season Finale at Homestead

Date: Nov. 22, 2009
Event: Ford 400 (Round 36 of 36)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Homestead-Miami Speedway (1.5-mile oval)
Start/Finish: 5th / 22nd (Running, completed 267 of 267 laps)
Winner: Denny Hamlin of Joe Gibbs Racing (Toyota)

Tony Stewart’s chances of ending the 2009 season with a victory appeared quite good as he led twice for 43 laps early in Sunday’s season-ending Ford 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

However, the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) saw his opportunity for victory go south at the South Florida track when he became involved in two separate incidents with Juan Pablo Montoya. The result of those incidents was some crinkled sheet metal and a disappointing 22nd-place finish.

After starting fifth, Stewart remained in the top-five for the first 116 laps around the 1.5-mile oval, including two stints at the front of the 43-car field during laps 33-52 and laps 63-85.

However, while racing down the frontstretch on lap 116, Montoya’s car ran into the back bumper of Stewart’s Chevrolet, causing minor damage to the rear of the Office Depot/Old Spice machine. One lap later as the duo exited turn two and ran down the backstretch, the left-front of Stewart’s car made contact with the right-side of Montoya’s No. 42 machine, which caused Montoya to slap the SAFER Barrier on the outside retaining wall in turn three.

Stewart suffered damage to his left-front fender and was forced to pit for minor repairs before restarting 25th on lap 127. Montoya, meanwhile, had to take his car to the garage for more extensive work.

Shortly after the incident, it appeared all was not lost for Stewart and Co., as he charged his way back to 11th by lap 156. But as Stewart worked his way back toward the front, Montoya’s crew worked to fix his car, and he ended up rejoining the race, and as it would turn out, reigniting his on-track skirmish with Stewart.

Montoya and Stewart made contact once again, this time exiting turn four on lap 157 when Montoya slammed into the back of Stewart’s No. 14 Chevrolet, sending it spinning off the corner and through the strip of grass that separates the racing surface from pit wall.

Stewart was unable to keep it off the fence, and his car suffered damage to the front splitter and left-front fender. While the Office Deport/Old Spice crew was able to make repairs, Stewart fell one lap behind the leaders and any chance he had at victory was over.

Stewart eventually earned his way back onto the lead lap via the lucky dog rule on lap 217, but his car was in no shape to crack the top-20.

Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 U.S. Army/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS and Stewart’s teammate at SHR, finished 23rd.

Denny Hamlin beat Jeff Burton by 2.632 seconds to win the Ford 400 and score the eighth victory of his Sprint Cup career, his fourth of the season and his first at Homestead.

Finishing third was Kevin Harvick, while Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson rounded out the top-five. Jeff Gordon, Carl Edwards, Kyle Busch, Martin Truex Jr., and A.J. Allmendinger comprised the remainder of the top-10.

There were seven caution periods for 31 laps, with four drivers failing to finish the 267-lap race.

Both SHR drivers were represented in this year’s Chase for the Championship. Stewart ended the year sixth in the standings, 343 points behind recently crowned champion Johnson, who won his record fourth consecutive Sprint Cup title. Newman finished the year ninth in points, 477 behind Johnson.

The final Chase standings for the 2009 season are as follows:

1. Jimmie Johnson (6,652 points) +/-0
2. Mark Martin (6,511 points, -141) +/-0
3. Jeff Gordon (6,473 points, -179) +/-0
4. Kurt Busch (6,446 points, -206) +/-0
5. Denny Hamlin (6,335 points, -317) +3
6. Tony Stewart (6,309 points, -343) -1
7. Greg Biffle (6,292 points, -360) +/-0
8. Juan Pablo Montoya (6,252 points, -400) -2
9. Ryan Newman (6,175 points, -477) +/-0
10. Kasey Kahne (6,128 points, -524) +/-0
11. Carl Edwards (6,118 points, -534) +/-0
12. Brian Vickers (5,929 points, -723) +/-0

The 2010 Sprint Cup season kicks off Feb. 5-14 with the traditional Speedweeks at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. The 52nd Daytona 500, the first point-paying race of the season, is scheduled for Feb. 14 and will be broadcast live on FOX, MRN Radio and SIRIUS Satellite Radio Channel 128.

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