He arrived at the Monster Mile on a roll, leading the Chase for the Sprint Cup points standings and riding a wave of momentum produced by back-to-back victories.
Tony Stewart left Dover International Speedway in a hurry, anxious to get the 1-mile track in his rear-view mirror. Stewart stumbled badly on the concrete surface during the AAA 400 Sunday, struggling to a 25th-place finish that dropped him to third in the standings behind new co-leaders Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards (although Harvick, with four race victories to Edwards’ one, holds the tie-breaker advantage).
“When you run 25th and finish two laps down, I don’t think you can assess [your day] as very good. We were terrible,” Stewart said in the garage area shortly after climbing from his No. 14 Chevrolet.
Stewart and Sunday’s race winner Kurt Busch both trail Harvick and Edwards by a mere nine points heading into the next race at Kansas Speedway, a 1.5-mile track where Stewart has won previously.
Grubb said he’s excited about the team’s performance on 1.5-mile tracks this season, especially after winning at one of them—Chicagoland Speedway—to open the 10-race Chase. Stewart followed that up with another victory at New Hampshire before Sunday’s debacle, so it’s not like he’s fallen out of the championship hunt. He even owns the tie-breaker edge over Busch because he currently has more second-place finishes (two to Busch’s one). NASCAR.com
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RANK DRIVER POINTS BEHIND 1 Kevin Harvick 2122 Leader 2 Carl Edwards 2122 Leader 3 Tony Stewart 2113 -9 4 Kurt Busch 2113 -9 5 Jimmie Johnson 2109 -13 6 Brad Keselowski 2108 -14 7 Matt Kenseth 2108 -14 8 Kyle Busch 2107 -15 9 Jeff Gordon 2103 -19 10 Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2088 -34 11 Ryan Newman 2081 -41 12 Denny Hamlin 2054 -68 13 Clint Bowyer 811 -1311 14 A.J. Allmendinger 809 -1313 15 Greg Biffle 789 -1333 16 Mark Martin 775 -1347 17 Kasey Kahne 775 -1347 18 David Ragan 771 -1351 19 Juan Montoya 767 -1355 20 Martin Truex Jr. 761 -1361 21 Marcos Ambrose 747 -1375 22 Joey Logano 744 -1378 23 Paul Menard 743 -1379 24 Jeff Burton 712 -1410 25 Regan Smith 678 -1444 26 Brian Vickers 672 -1450 27 Jamie McMurray 666 -1456 28 David Reutimann 615 -1507 29 Bobby Labonte 589 -1533 30 David Gilliland 482 -1640 31 Casey Mears 413 -1709 32 Dave Blaney 381 -1741 33 Andy Lally* 370 -1752 34 Robby Gordon 245 -1877 35 J.J. Yeley 141 -1981 36 Tony Raines 129 -1993 37 Michael McDowell 104 -2018 38 Bill Elliott 100 -2022 39 Terry Labonte 92 -2030 40 Ken Schrader 87 -2035
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