With four races remaining before the ‘Chase’, Tony Stewart is on a rampage collecting wins at Chicago, Indianapolis and Watkins Glen. With seven top 10’s in the last ten races, he’s looking pretty champion like.
Tony finished third in his last outing at Michigan and is expecting to do better this time. On the other hand, Carl Edwards was the winner last time at Michigan and it has been a very good track for him. Looking forward to Michigan and the Chase, “Everything is going well ……we kinda feel like we are getting stronger” commented Edwards “we’re running well at all different kinds of tracks.” After missing the Chase last year Carl is excited about running for the Championship this year.
By Joe Dunn, Onpitroad.com
Aug 14, 2007
If there were ever any questions about why the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series races twice a year on road course, they got answered at Watkins Glen International on Sunday, when Tony Stewart prevailed over Jeff Gordon in a tense, ferocious battle of prodigious talents at the top of their games.
By Tom Jensen, SPEED TV
Aug 13, 2007
It was a race of attrition and nerve. And when it comes to hanging around the front of the pack and keeping your cool, few are better than Tony Stewart. Rupen Fofaria, ESPN.com
Aug 12, 2007
If you’re a NASCAR fan who likes stock car racing spiced with spinning, sliding, shouting and shoving, Watkins Glen International was the unlikely place to be Sunday.
The 2.45-mile road course resembled a short track as some of the best Nextel Cup drivers struggled with slinging the 3,400-pound Car of Tomorrow through the 11-turn track for the first time in the Centurion Boats at The Glen.
By Nate Ryan, USA TODAY
Tony Stewart takes home his 3rd win 4 races at Watkins Glen International in the Centurion Boats at The Glen. Joe Gibbs racing also takes home a 1-2 finish for the day.
Stewart, starting by a rained out qualifying session points start, would start 5th. Stewart would be in the running for the lead, challenging Jeff Gordon for the 1st position, but mid race would find himself with a wheel hop coming down the front stretch hill going into turn one.
By Mike Finnegan, Speedwaymedia.com
Stewart’s mere presence was as good as anyone’s front bumper.
On lap 88, with Stewart three car lengths behind him, four-time series champ - and four-time winner at The Glen - Jeff Gordon pushed to maintain his shrinking advantage and then locked up the rear tires and spun out in the first turn, surrendering the lead to Stewart. That gave second place to Carl Edwards, who, on the final lap, attempted a bonzai move in the left-handed Turn 10, and went shooting off into the gravel trying to better Stewart’s pace. CHRIS GILL, The Leader
After nearly seven months of racing, Stewart and Gordon have now separated themselves from the rest of the field, and these two will likely battle for the championship all the way to Homestead. For race fans, this should be a memorable sprint to the title, because Gordon and Stewart are generally acknowledged to be the top-two talents of their generation and both wield as much star power as anyone in the garage not named Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Here’s the quick recap of what transpired at the Glen: Jeff Gordon dominated the race but spun out late, opening the door for Tony Stewart to take his third checkered flag in the last four starts.
SportsIllustrated.cnn.com
Aug 13, 2007
Tony Stewart watched as Jeff Gordon slid off the track with two laps to go and the No.20 Joe Gibbs Racing driver went on to capture Sunday’s Centurion Boats at the Glen Nextel Cup race at the Watkins Glen International road course. The Home Depot Chevrolet took the checkered flag 2.460 seconds ahead of Denny Hamlin.
Sports Network
Aug 13, 2007
And, oh, Tony Stewart won for the third time in four weeks.
If this doesn’t help NASCAR’s sagging television ratings, nothing will.
In what could be a preview of the championship run when the Chase for the Nextel Cup begins in five weeks, Tony Stewart took advantage of Gordon’s mistake for his fourth win on the road course. David Newton, ESPN.com
Aug 13, 2007
Forget all the talk about this being Jeff Gordon’s year. It’s true that the four-time champion is having an incredible season, but the last time Tony Stewart went on a midseason run like this was in 2005. That year he went on to win the championship.
Stewart said after the race that he knew he’d have to settle for second unless race leader Gordon made a mistake. Was having Stewart’s car in his rearview mirror lap after lap just too much for Gordon, or was Gordon looking to gain an advantage by driving deep into Turn 1? I somehow believe it was the latter.
By Bob Margolis, Yahoo Sports
Aug 13, 2007
Benefiting from Jeff Gordon’s spin in Turn 1 on the next-to-last lap, Tony Stewart inherited the lead from the NASCAR Nextel Cup points leader and went on to win for the third time in four races when he took the checkered flag in Sunday’s Centurion Boats at The Glen at Watkins Glen International. Reid Spencer, Sporting News
The victory was the fourth NASCAR Nextel Cup win at Watkins Glen for Stewart, who matched Gordon’s record of four Cup wins on the road course.
Denny Hamlin finished second, Jimmie Johnson was third, Ron Fellows fourth and Robby Gordon fifth. Star-Gazette.com
Gordon, who started from the pole and led a race-high 51 laps, seemed to have his 10th road course victory in hand, but he spun out on his own heading into the first turn with Stewart a couple of car-lengths behind and finished ninth. JOHN KEKIS, ABCNews
Stewart’s victory was nearly overshadowed by a slew of crazy circumstances including a physical confrontation on the track between drivers Kevin Harvick and Juan Pablo Montoya; another blown engine for Dale Earnhardt Jr.; and a shirtless fan running on the track while the race was stopped to attempt to get an autograph from Matt Kenseth. JIM UTTER, CharlotteObserver.com
After three road races in a span of eight days, there was bound to be a little road rage at Watkins Glen Sunday.
A stretch that started with a wild Busch race in Montreal, continued with another road event for NASCAR’s number two division at Watkins Glen and then finished with the Cup Series at The Glen providing some of the craziest racing of the year.
Jeff Gordon, Dale Earnhardt Jr., Juan Pablo Montoya and Kevin Harvick were all a bit road weary by the time the checkered flag flew in the final Nextel Cup road race of the season. Pete Pistone, CBS SportsLine.com
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