- Tony Stewart Becomes 1st NASCAR Driver-Owner Champion Since 1992
Stewart became a initial driver/owner to win a championship given Alan Kulwicki achieved a attainment in 1992. Kulwicki overcame a outrageous necessity over a last 6 races. Stewart claimed his third pretension by apropos a initial motorist to bind a championship by winning a deteriorate finale. “It’s an respect to be in a same difficulty with Alan Kulwicki,” Stewart said. “But Alan did it all upon his own. I’ve got a good co-owner with Gene Haas, as well as (general manager) Joe Custer helped put all this together with (Hendrick Motorsports owner) Rick Hendrick.”
- Tony Stewart wins third NASCAR title
Tony Stewart: Tony Stewart has won his third NASCAR championship currently during a last turn of a deteriorate during Homestead, FL. Stewart scored equally his opposition Carl Edwards upon points, winning a pretension in a tiebreaker by winning some-more races during a deteriorate (five for Stewart – a single for Edwards). The competition came down to a thespian 40 path shootout with a dual drivers, using 1-2 – where whoever won a competition would take a championship. On track to a championship Stewart’s group came upon clever in a after partial of a season, removing in to a follow though a win, though afterwards winning 5 of a ten-race Sprint Cup Chase. Stewart, a co-owner in a Stewart-Haas racing team, is a initial owner-driver to win a pretension given Alan Kulwicki won it in 1992. Stewart’s win ends Jimmie Johnson’s strain of 5 uninterrupted titles
- Tony Stewart Crew Chief Darian Grubb
Tony Stewart’s championship-winning organisation chief, Darian Grubb, says he’s been fired. Grubb, vocalization after he as well as Stewart won a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pretension upon Sunday night, pronounced he was told before to a Charlotte Chase competition which he would not be welcomed behind by Stewart-Haas Racing subsequent season. “I regularly longed for to stay with a organization,” he said. “That’s a reason we came here – to set up something special.” The organisation arch pronounced “we’ll see in this entrance week how things change,” though didn’t receptive to advice confident he would be back. Stewart ducked a subject about Grubb’s standing as well as said, “I know what his standing is for a rest of a night – I’m starting to get him drunk.”
