Tony Stewart - NASCAR Chicagoland Post Race Victory Notes and Quotes
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Jul 16, 2007
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Jul 16, 2007
Just as Jake and Elwood Blues – the Blues Brothers – broke out of Joliet, Ill., in the summer of 1979, Tony Stewart broke out to score his first win of the 2007 season and the 30th of his career by winning Sunday’s USG Sheetrock 400 at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet.
Watching Tony Stewart climb the fence in victory was the thrill of the day for the sellout crowd. Stewart earned his first win of the season by 1.7 seconds over Matt Kenseth, an eternity in Nextel Cup racing.
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This was the last time the current version of the Cup car will race on this 1.5-mile oval.
Amen. Nice to have known you. Rest in peace. Bring on the COT. The sooner the better.
Jul 16, 2007
“I’m glad this is over,” said Stewart, who also won at Chicagoland in 2004. “I’m going on vacation.”
Stewart broke a 20-race winless streak dating to last season thanks in part to a hard crash by contender Jimmie Johnson, who was running second behind Stewart with 45 laps left when his tire went flat.
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“All these Home Depot guys won the race,” said Stewart, referring to his pit crew guys. “They got us the track position we needed, especially with late cautions like that. Being out front, being in clean air was everything. So every one of those guys with the Monte Carlo SS were the ones who got us in victory lane today, for sure.”
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Tony Stewart cleared the air with his teammate and broke out of a half-season winless streak all on the same weekend.
Good for him, but bad for conversation.
“I got to come up with a radio show for tomorrow, “ Stewart said Sunday, referring to his weekly Sirius satellite program. “So I’ve got to do the same thing . .. come up with something to talk about. “
Dave Kallmann, journalsentinel.com
Jul 16, 2007
Tony Stewart passed up new tires on the final pit stop and the strategy worked as he captured Sunday’s USG Sheetrock 400 at the Chicagoland Speedway. The No.20 Home Depot Chevrolet driver crossed the finish line 1.727 seconds ahead of Matt Kenseth.
The victory was Stewart’s first of the season and 30th of his Nextel Cup career.
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When team owner Joe Gibbs made a detour Saturday, stopping at Chicagoland Speedway on his way to vacation in Colorado, feuding teammates Tony Stewart and Denny Hamlin knew it was important.
Stewart, winless on the season, had torn into Hamlin after the two had wrecked early in the previous week’s Pepsi 400.
By Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY
A little old-fashioned coaching was exactly what Tony Stewart needed to end a 20-race winless streak at Chicagoland Speedway and score his 30th career win on Sunday.
Following a heated exchange at Daytona last weekend between Joe Gibbs Racing teammates Stewart and Denny Hamlin, Coach Gibbs parked his drivers for the first 30-minutes of Happy Hour on Saturday. Coach delivered an old-fashioned come-to-Jesus reprimand that his drivers took to heart.
“It’s a bigger drama with the media than it was with the teams in all reality,” Stewart said. “We’ve got a strong group of guys both on the Home Depot team, the Fed Ex team and the Interstate Batteries team. Lee Spencer, FOXSports.com
