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Tony Stewart Scores First Victory of 2012 at Las Vegas
Kannapolis – In just the third race of the season, Stewart picked up right where he left off in 2011, as the three-time and reigning Sprint Cup champion collected his first win of 2012 but his sixth in the last 13 Sprint Cup races. “It wasn’t a layup weekend, throw the notes from 12 months ago and say, ‘All right, this is the magic here,’” said Stewart, who has now won four of the last seven … Read entire article »
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Newman Quick Enough for Fourth Place at Las Vegas
Kannapolis – Ryan Newman drove from eighth to fourth in the final four laps of the Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race Sunday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, scoring his first top-five finish of 2012. Newman, driver of the No. 39 Quicken Loans Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), lined up eighth on the race’s final restart on lap 264 and then benefited from contact between Matt Kenseth and Kasey Kahne as the field … Read entire article »
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Tony Stewart scratchs another track off the bucket list.
By Reid Spencer – NASCAR Wire Service LAS VEGAS – Tony Stewart scratched another racetrack off the bucket list. Powering away from Jimmie Johnson after a restart with four laps left in Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, the reigning Sprint Cup champion took the checkered flag .461 seconds ahead of Johnson. The victory was Stewart’s first at the 1.5-mile track, leaving only Darlington and Kentucky as active Cup tracks at … Read entire article »
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Ryan Newman Las Vegas Press Conference Transcript
RYAN NEWMAN met with media and discussed the tight level of competition, traveling across the country to race, how top finishers at Las Vegas do well in year-end results, and more. Full Transcript: ON UPCOMING WINNER’S CIRCLE APPEARANCE FOR MARTINSVILLE “Yeah, I think I’m doing some laps around the race track and we’re going to visit some of the local animal shelters. And that was, from our standpoint at the Ryan Newman Foundation, where we, (wife) … Read entire article »
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Stewart-Haas Racing Kobalt Tools 400 Qualifying Report
Las Vegas – Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala, led the two-car Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) contingent in time trials Friday at Las Vegas Motor Speedway by qualifying seventh for Sunday’s Kobalt Tools 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Stewart turned a lap of 28.471 seconds at 189.667 mph on the 1.5-mile oval. “We’ve definitely got great horsepower in the Hendrick engine department, and with Mobil 1 oil flowing through our … Read entire article »
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Tony Stewart Las Vegas Press Conference Transcript
Las Vegas – TONY STEWART met with members of the media at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and discussed his chances this week at Las Vegas Motor Speedway, dirt racing and other topics. Full Transcript: WHAT IS YOUR MINDSET ABOUT BEING HERE AT LAS VEGAS? “I’m excited about it. This was probably in all reality this was the strongest race that we had last year. We had a car that just was dominant. We still let it … Read entire article »
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Stewart Still Looking for that Elusive First Vegas Win
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. – Tony Stewart’s run to the 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship has been described as epic, improbable and historic. Chaotic is one word that hasn’t been applied to his title charge, but perhaps it should, as a portion of the Chaos Theory known as the Butterfly Effect can explain the beginnings of Stewart’s title charge. The Butterfly Effect describes how initial conditions can affect large, complex systems. The term comes from the suggestion that … Read entire article »
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