By SmokinNews, on May 4th, 2008%
Tony Stewart rallied to finish a strong fourth in Saturday night’s Crown Royal Dan Lowry 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway. The driver of the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) posted his sixth top-10 of the season and his 13th top-10 in 19 Sprint Cup races at Richmond after overcoming a balky alternator that sapped the amount of electrical power available inside his race car.“I don’t know whether we lost an alternator belt or just broke an alternator or what, but I had to run the whole last half of the race with almost no fans, just front and rear brake blowers,” said Stewart, as he sat on the pit wall after climbing from his race
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By SmokinNews, on May 4th, 2008%
Knoxville, IA — Donny Schatz knows the history of Knoxville Raceway very well and he added his name to that history in couple of different ways on Saturday night. First he put himself in elite company of drivers that have won on opening night at the famed half-mile in Iowa. On top of that, the two-time defending Advance Auto Parts World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series champion and two-time defending Knoxville Nationals winner, picked up his first A-Feature triumph with the series, driving for Tony Stewart Racing.
Schatz took the lead on the 18th lap, powering his way past Steve Kinser on the high-side of the track exiting the fourth turn. One lap earlier he nearly took the lead at the same spot on the track with
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