Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart
Anthony Wayne "Tony" Stewartis an American professional stock car racing driver and NASCAR team owner. He is a three-time Sprint Cup Series champion as a driver. Throughout his racing career, Stewart has won racing titles in Indy, midget, sprint, and USAC Silver Crown cars. He is the only driver in history to win a championship in both IndyCar and NASCAR...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRace Car Driver
Date of Birth20 May 1971
CountryUnited States of America
darn far favorite leading led mean points sunday winning
Being the favorite doesn't mean a darn thing to me, to be honest, as far as winning the points, ... I've led points championships before. The day I want to be leading is the Sunday at Homestead.
behind both decided extended gained guys lead
Yeah, there's really nothing decided yet. I extended my lead over Jimmie (from 15 to 43 points), but Biffle gained on both of us, and those guys behind him aren't out of it, either.
bad lead points week weekend
I don't feel like we're really in a catch-up mode, ... We had our bad week and even with that, we're only 23 points behind. We could take the points lead back this weekend very easily.
leading obviously race win
Obviously we wanted to win the race after leading that many laps.
leading loved race won
We would have loved to have won the race after leading all those laps.
chess fifth leading matter next race timing
It's such a chess match. You can be leading the race one second, and you can be fifth the next second. I think it's just a matter of timing and getting yourself in the right place at the right time.
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The coolest thing is you have 160,000 fans that you can see all day long or all night long. I can remember (passing) Jeff Gordon for the lead and I could see the people cheering. The grandstands are right on top of you. When you get out of the car after practice or qualifying, you can see what the fans are eating and what they're drinking. You're that close.
gained lead leaving needed points races smile three
We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here. A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.
gained lead leaving needed points races smile three
We did what we needed to do; we gained some points here, ... A 43-point lead with three races is no cakewalk, by any means, but I'm leaving here with a smile on my face.
anybody count everybody four math narrow weeks
With four weeks to go you can't narrow it down yet. It's too early. The math is how you do it. Mathematically, everybody is still in it. As long as everybody is mathematically in it, I don't know how you can count anybody out of it.
games mind people played
I've been doing this for 26 years and I've played mind games with people and I've had people play mind games with me,
cowboy head looks nice
It would be kind of nice to see how my head looks in a cowboy hat.
everybody good heard kid somebody talked
Everything that I had heard about him and everybody that I talked to about him said he was a good kid and somebody that they thought had a good future. I wanted to be a part of that.
amazed answering philosophers-and-philosophy questions today
The thing that has amazed me is that most of the questions I'm answering today are all theoretical. Well, I'm not a philosopher.