By SmokinNews, on September 22nd, 2008%
ATLANTA – Tony Stewart has enjoyed an improbable high and an equally improbable low in his last two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series races at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City, site of Sunday’s Camping World RV 400.
The high came in 2006, when Stewart – who was out of the Chase and had little to lose and everything to gain – gambled with his Home Depot-sponsored No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing team that he had enough fuel to make the final 71 laps around Kansas’ 1.5-mile oval. Their gambled paid off, as Stewart led the final five laps of the 267-lap race and coasted across the finish line with an empty tank to score his 27th career Sprint Cup victory and his third of the season, beating Casey
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By SmokinNews, on September 22nd, 2008%
Tony Stewart had a relatively uneventful 400-mile Sunday drive at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. The driver of the No. 20 Home Depot Toyota for Joe Gibbs Racing (JGR) rallied from his 33rd-place starting spot to finish a respectable 11th in the Camping World RV 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
“Honestly, once you got past the part about your car sliding around, it was kind of fun the way the track moved around as much as it did,” said Stewart, who now has 20 career Sprint Cup starts at the 1-mile oval. “I mean, I felt like that’s the most I’ve ever moved around here at Dover.
“We never could hit the balance spot-on, and when we did, it seemed like we needed more grip. We could get
Continue reading With 11th Place Finish at Dover Stewart Falls 40 Points Farther Behind in Points
