Tony Stewart grabs Nationwide victory at Daytona
Quote selected text Published February 16th, 2008 in NASCAR News
Tony Stewart’s hoping to go 2-for-2 at Daytona this weekend, beating Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch to win Saturday’s season-opening Nationwide race. Next up - the Daytona 500.
Sunday, Gibbs Racing once again will take the Hendrick Motorsports approach - teamwork.
It certainly worked Saturday for pole-winner Stewart.
“We worked with each other the whole race. That’s something that, you know, we’ve learned that from the Hendrick guys,” Stewart said. “And it just shows if you get two of these guys to work with each other, Kyle and I can - I think Kyle and I could have stayed up front all day no matter how many guys challenged.”
Dale Earnhardt Jr., who had won his first two races driving for Hendrick Motorsports, was third.
RESULTS:
FIN, ST, CAR, DRIVER, MAKE, SPONSOR, PTS/BNS, LAPS, STATUS
1 1 20 Tony Stewart Toyota Armor All 190/5 120 Running
2 5 18 Kyle Busch Toyota Interstate Batteries 180/10 120 Running
3 19 5 Dale Earnhardt Jr. Chevrolet National Guard 165/0 120 Running
4 11 10 Brian Vickers Toyota ABF U-Pack Moving 165/5 120 Running
5 14 17 Matt Kenseth Ford Kraft / Ritz 155/0 120 Running
6 6 41 Bryan Clauson * Dodge Texaco / Havoline 150/0 120 Running
7 25 16 Greg Biffle Ford CitiFinancial 146/0 120 Running
8 8 32 Denny Hamlin Toyota Hass Avocados from Mexico 147/5 120 Running
9 28 6 David Ragan Ford Discount Tire 143/5 120 Running
10 26 60 Carl Edwards Ford Scotts Miracle-Gro 134/0 120 Running
11 10 8 Martin Truex Jr. Chevrolet Freightliner Trucks 135/5 120 Running
12 31 47 Kelly Bires Ford Clorox 127/0 120 Running
13 40 1 Johnny Sauter Chevrolet Miccosukee Resort & Gaming 124/0 120 Running
14 18 99 David Reutimann Toyota Aaron’s Dream Machine 121/0 120 Running
15 7 21 Bobby Labonte Chevrolet Realtree 118/0 120 Running
16 13 88 Brad Keselowski Chevrolet U.S. Navy 115/0 120 Running
17 34 22 Mike Bliss Dodge Supercuts 112/0 120 Running
18 29 29 Scott Wimmer Chevrolet Holiday Inn 109/0 120 Running
19 3 38 Jason Leffler Toyota Great Clips 106/0 120 Running
20 4 40 Dario Franchitti * Dodge Fastenal 103/0 120 Running
21 9 33 Kevin Harvick Chevrolet Camping World / RVs.com 100/0 120 Running
22 38 25 Bobby Hamilton Jr. Ford Smithfield 97/0 120 Running
23 39 77 Cale Gale * Chevrolet Rheem 94/0 120 Running
24 22 7 Mike Wallace Toyota GEICO 91/0 120 Running
25 2 2 Clint Bowyer Chevrolet BB&T 88/0 119 Running
26 27 27 Brad Coleman Ford Cottonelle / Kroger 85/0 119 Running
27 21 00 Michael McDowell Toyota Rimco Custom Wheels & Tires 82/0 119 Running
28 35 37 Brad Baker Ford Envirox 79/0 119 Running
29 23 195 Willie Allen Dodge USALABS.com 76/0 119 Running
30 32 28 Kirk Shelmerdine Chevrolet Lilly Trucking of Virginia 78/5 119 Running
31 37 4 Robert Richardson, II Chevrolet JVC Everio 70/0 118 Running
32 24 01 Dwayne Leik Chevrolet Lake County CrimeStoppers 67/0 118 Running
33 16 81 D.J. Kennington Dodge STP Tools 64/0 117 Running
34 36 24 Eric McClure Chevrolet Hefty 61/0 116 Running
35 15 9 Kasey Kahne Dodge Ragu 63/5 111 Off Track
36 20 111 Jason Keller Chevrolet Conrad Yelvington Dist. / Allstate Materials 55/0 110 Off Track
37 30 66 Steve Wallace Chevrolet Atreus Homes & Communities 52/0 110 Off Track
38 17 30 Stanton Barrett Chevrolet NOS Energy Drink / INTERUSH 49/0 108 Off Track
39 33 59 Marcos Ambrose Ford Kingsford Hickory Charcoal 46/0 103 Off Track
40 42 14 David Gilliland Ford Music City Illinois 43/0 53 Out of Race
41 12 170 Mark Green Chevrolet Foretravel Motorcoach 40/0 53 Out of Race
42 41 64 David Stremme Chevrolet Atreus Homes & Communities 37/0 17 Out of Race
43 43 90 Steve Grissom Chevrolet MSRP Motorsports 34/0 3 Out of Race
Bookmark to:
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- Armor All to sponsor Stewart’s Nationwide car at Daytona
- Stewart earns 100th victory for Joe Gibbs Racing
- Stewart to test at Daytona
- Tony Stewart wins Budweiser Shootout at Daytona
Aw shucks those dang Toyotas won . Congrats Tony, hope you can carry it over to tomorrow!
This was a good race with a great finish. It looked like Junior had a little something for Tony at the end but couldn’t quite get there. All the Toyotas were fast. It looks like it’s gonna be an exciting season.
If Tony gets any fatter they’ll have to reframe that window of his for sure. What’s funny is that he is on a Subway commercial about Jarred keeping it off for 10yrs. Haha look how big he’s got. fat ba*tard
Tony Still eats subway he just eats the good stuff not those Veggie subs that Jarred eats.
i still dont think its right that 16 out of the top 20 cars were cup guys… not fair to the rest of the drivers that just run bush… er… nationwide
Ripper wrote:
It’s Daytona and it wont be like that every week
I congratulate Tony!!! Great win!!!
Although I am still looking for the DODGE!
Don’t be surprised to see one in victory lane tomorrow!
Or you could look at this one first, Dale Dodge Jr
http://www.freewebs.com/dadracing
I was gonna b#@th about the Bushwackers ( Nationwidewackers just doesn’t sound as good) but Ripper took care of it. Nascars gotta do something!
Its not the Cup guys that come for one or two races that bother me, its the guys that race the full season.
Go get em’ tomorrow Tony
and “your mom’s box”, [shakes head] how ignorant and stupid can you be? I think your name shows your maturity level; this is a blog about Tony winning the race, not his weight, not his attitude.
Those Toyotas are making me wonder about this sport now. We all know that those foregin cars get better gas mileage (as reg. everyday cars). But, now we have those in the greatest AMERICAN SPORT there is. What is that saying? I honestly hate the fact that toyota or any other foreign made thing is in Nascar. But we all know they only think about the money.
Since their in and I have no choice in the matter. I will say that was impressive druing that race. But is it really BECAUSE its toyota or because the teams hit the nail on the head? Hmmm. We’ll have to watch and see.
On another note….
That just cracked me up with Truex saying Kyle “drives like a girl”. Its hilarious. Being a girl I take a little offense to that, I ceratinly can drive A LOT better then that puke. The truth is, Kyle drives like an idiot. I understand that he was ACTUALLY trying to help his teammate, Tony. But, COME ON! He was way too aggressive in that blocking. I don’t know how many time I thought, Oh well here is the big one. He was actually more wreckless driving then blocking.
To me both those Bush brothers do nothing but mirror drive and block. And they would rather wreck the whole field if they aren’t able to win. That is not a true sportsman nor race driver.
Good job Tony. It would have been better though seeing him battle someone at the end for it. Not watch some ill mannered child swing back and forth like he’s intoxicated.
To the people that keep on saying that NASCAR is an American sport… Then how come when NASCAR was created and for its early existence it was known as NASCAR [b]International[/b]