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 Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 12:42 pm Post subject: NASCAR: Stewart looking for more success at Loudon 300 |
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A week ago while on a press junket in Chicago to promote the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, Tony Stewart proclaimed he’d be a “bumbling idiot” if he won this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. After all, the driver of the No. 14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) hadn’t won a race in 2011 and squeaked his way into the Chase field with only three top-fives and 11 top-10s during the 26-race regular season.
By Stewart’s standards, it had been a miserable season. The two-time Sprint Cup champion (2002 and 2005) had his lowest totals of top-fives, top-10s and laps led prior to the final 10 races of the season than during any of his 12 previous years in Sprint Cup.
Then round No. 1 of the Chase took place Monday at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill., and when the checkered flag dropped, Stewart had his 40th career Sprint Cup win, his series-best third at Chicagoland and his first of the season. The victory ended a 32-race winless streak and vaulted Stewart from ninth in points to second, just seven markers behind series leader Kevin Harvick.
Now Stewart rolls into New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon for round No. 2 of the Chase with a bounce in his step and many wondering if the driver nicknamed “Smoke” was just blowing smoke when he downplayed his Chase chances.
For New Englanders, this might sound familiar. After all, it was the 2004 Boston Red Sox who were described as “idiots” by first baseman and cult hero Kevin Millar as he worked to keep his teammates loose during their postseason run to the World Series.
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