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
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.
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.
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.
car coolest eating fans gordon jeff lead night people practice remember top
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.
leading loved race won
We would have loved to have won the race after leading all those laps.
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.
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.
chicago convinced john laying man thoroughly
I'm thoroughly convinced that the man laying on the slab in the Chicago morgue was John Dillinger.
knew position quicker spin turn
I knew we were a little quicker than him. There was no way he was going to give it away, so we were going to have to take it away. We didn't turn him around. We didn't spin him out. We just got the position that we were after.
anybody beat best car drove everybody gordon jeff knows lap ought positive run
Everybody knows who had the best car here today, ... There wasn't anybody who was going to beat us. Jeff Gordon got the trophy, but he wasn't going to beat us. We had the best car. All you have to do is get the lap times. They could run with us for 15 or 18 laps, but we always drove away. That's the positive thing that we ought to take away from today.
chase dictate nights
It was just one of those screwed-up nights that's probably going to dictate the way the Chase comes out,
given win won
They've never given up on me, ... We didn't want to win it like we did in 2002. We won it right this time.