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September 6, 2010

The Cure For What Ails Ya

Stewart Wins Emory Healthcare 500 at Atlanta to Collect First Sprint Cup Win of 2010

Tony Stewart is winless no more. The driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) won Sunday night’s Emory Healthcare 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Atlanta Motor Speedway to snap a 31-race victory drought and collect his 38th career win but first of 2010.

Stewart led eight times for a race-high 176 laps in the 325-lap contest to score his first victory since winning last October at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City. It was his fifth point-paying Sprint Cup win since joining SHR in 2009 and it was his third Sprint Cup win at Atlanta, as Stewart won at the 1.54-mile oval in March 2002 and October 2006.

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August 23, 2010

Bristol Bullring Shows its Horns to Stewart

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Finishes 27th in Irwin Tools Night Race

The .533-mile oval that is Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway is often called a bullring because of its tight confines and high speeds, and it showed its horns to Tony Stewart in Saturday’s Irwin Tools Night Race NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event.

The driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) finished a disappointing 27th after a strong start had him running second to Jimmie Johnson for the race’s first 125 laps.

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August 9, 2010

Stewart Still Strong at Watkins Glen

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Finishes Seventh to Notch Ninth Top-10 in 12 Sprint Cup Starts at The Glen

Tony Stewart knocked down another top-10 finish and bulked up his Chase standing by recording a solid seventh-place result in Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at The Glen NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the Watkins Glen (N.Y.) International road course.

The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) has now logged four straight top-10 finishes, and nine top-10s in the last 11 Sprint Cup races. The summer surge has allowed Stewart to climb from 18th in the championship standings, where he was 59 points outside the ever-important top-12 after round 11 of 36 at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, to an eighth-place point standing with a 234-point cushion over 13th-place Clint Bowyer – the first driver on the outside looking in at the 12-driver Chase for the Championship – with just four races remaining before the Chase field is set.

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August 2, 2010

Smooth Stewart Finishes Second at Pocono

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Scores Third Runner-Up Finish of 2010

Tony Stewart survived rain delays and a red-flag period to score a runner-up result in Sunday’s Sunoco Red Cross Pennsylvania 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway.

It was the third second-place finish of 2010 for the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), with the others coming in March at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway and in June at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. It was also the fourth time in the last five Sprint Cup races at Pocono that Stewart has finished third or better – a stat that includes his first point-paying win as a driver/owner with SHR on June 7, 2009.

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July 26, 2010

Smart Two-Tire Call Gets Stewart Top-Five at Indy

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Rallies to Notch Seventh Top-10 in Last Nine Races

Had you told Tony Stewart that he would score a top-five finish in Sunday’s Brickyard 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, he would’ve thought you were crazy. After all, the driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) had struggled with his car’s handling in the practice sessions on Friday and Saturday that led up to the 160-lap race.

Yet, when the checkered flag dropped on the 17th running of the Brickyard 400, there was Stewart on pit road chatting with the assembled media about his impressive fifth-place finish.

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July 11, 2010

Another Race at Chicagoland, Another Top-10 for Stewart

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Scores Eighth Top-10 in 10th Chicagoland Start

Tony Stewart drove his No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice “Back-to-School” Chevrolet Impala to a solid ninth-place finish in Saturday night’s LifeLock.com 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill. It was Stewart’s ninth top-10 finish of 2010 and his eighth top-10 in 10 career Sprint Cup starts at Chicagoland.

“Throughout the night, we didn’t totally miss it, but we didn’t totally hit it either,” said Stewart, referring to a new chassis setup he and crew chief Darian Grubb elected to try out on the 1.5-mile Chicagoland oval. “I think there were some positives to it, but I’m not sure it was exactly what we wanted, but we’ll keep working at it. We’ll try to figure out where we missed it and what we can do to make it better. We’ve got some data from this package and we’ll just keep working forward.”

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June 28, 2010

Stewart Scores Second the Hard Way at New Hampshire

Late-Race Rally Gives Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Fourth Top-Five of 2010

Tony Stewart snared an impressive second-place finish the hard way in Sunday’s Lenox Industrial Tools 301 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon.

The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) had to come from as far back as 33rd in the 43-car field because he was off-sequence from the rest of his competitors on pit stops.

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June 21, 2010

Stewart Earns Hard-Fought Ninth at Sonoma

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Scores Seventh Top-10 of 2010, Moves to 10th in Points

Tony Stewart and the Office Depot/Old Spice team fought their way to a solid ninth-place finish in Sunday’s Toyota/Save Mart 350k NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif.

It was the third consecutive top-10 result for Stewart and his fifth straight top-15 finish dating back to the May race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.

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June 14, 2010

Stewart Fights to Fifth at Michigan; Back in Chase

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Scores Sixth Top-10 of 2010, Moves to 11th in Points

Tony Stewart and the Old Spice/Office Depot team of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) finished a solid fifth in Sunday’s Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.

It was the second consecutive top-five result for Stewart as he finished third last week at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. More importantly, it moved the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala from 13th in the championship standings to 11th, putting him inside the elite 12-driver Chase for the championship by 57 points over 13th- place Clint Bowyer, which will be finalized in 11 more Sprint Cup races.

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June 8, 2010

Youth is Served in Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream at Eldora Speedway

The Gillette Young Guns Join Tony Stewart, Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon and Other Racing Stars in a Return to the Dirt in Support of Four Children’s Hospitals

Wednesday, June 9 Live on HBO Pay-Per-View®

SPEEDWAY, Ind. (April 20, 2010) – On Wednesday, June 9, the most celebrated dirt track in all of motorsports will host the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream. Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio, will once again be the site of the all-star dirt Late Model race featuring more than 25 world renowned drivers as they battle for dirt supremacy on the half-mile clay oval, all of which will be presented live to the entire nation on HBO Pay-Per-View® with proceeds from the telecast supporting four of the nation’s top children’s hospitals:

• Riley Hospital for Children in Indianapolis: www.RileyChildrensHospital.com
• Cincinnati Children’s: www.CincinnatiChildrens.org
• Levine Children’s Hospital in Charlotte, N.C.: www.LevineChildrensHospital.org
• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.: www.StJude.org

The sixth annual event will be headlined by the Gillette Young Guns: Clint Bowyer, Kasey Kahne, Kyle Busch, Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Joey Logano. All will join Stewart and many others, including fellow Sprint Cup champions Jimmie Johnson, Jeff Gordon, Matt Kenseth, Bobby Labonte and Bill Elliott.

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June 7, 2010

Stewart Fuels Way to Third at Pocono

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Only One Point Away From Cracking Top-12

The Poconos aren’t exactly gambling meccas, but you wouldn’t know it by watching Tony Stewart race around the 2.5-mile triangle that is Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. That’s because Stewart and crew chief Darian Grubb have rolled the dice on their fuel mileage in back-to-back June visits to Pocono and come away with a win and a third-place finish, the latter of which was earned in Sunday’s Gillette Fusion ProGlide 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.

“We’ll take that finish,” said Stewart, who started the race in sixth but fought an ill-handling racecar for much of the event, which had him mired in the teens. “Not a beautiful day by any means, but we got where we needed to in the end. We got some track position and we had a pretty good car when we got there.”

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May 31, 2010

Stewart Finishes 15th in Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Battles Ill-Handling Car in Series’ Longest Race

That extra 100 hundred miles in the Coca-Cola 600 – the longest race on the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series schedule – is always felt, but it’s even more so when the racecar you’re piloting is sliding around at speeds nearing 200 mph.

Such was the case for Tony Stewart, who knew exactly when the race felt like it should’ve been over at its 500-mile mark, but knew he had another 66 laps to go before the checkered flag dropped on the 400-lap affair.

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May 17, 2010

Stewart Battles to Ninth-Place Finish at Dover

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Scores Fourth Top-10 of 2010

Tony Stewart and the Office Depot/Old Spice team of Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) took a step in the right direction Sunday by finishing ninth in the Autism Speaks 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway.

It was Stewart’s 15th top-10 finish in 23 career Sprint Cup starts at the 1-mile oval and his fourth top-10 of 2010. More importantly, it was Stewart’s first top-10 finish since placing second in March at Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway, ending the longest top-10 drought of his 12-year Sprint Cup career.

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May 10, 2010

500 Long Miles for Stewart at Darlington

Myriad Issues Lead to 23rd-Place Finish at Track ‘Too Tough to Tame’

The track “Too Tough to Tame” lived up to its billing in Saturday night’s Showtime Southern 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Darlington (S.C.) Raceway, at least for Tony Stewart. The driver of the No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing dealt with a myriad of issues en route to a 23rd-place finish at the venerable 1.366-mile oval.

From the start of the 367-lap race, Stewart had a racecar that was loose back to the gas each time he came off the track’s corners. Track bar, wedge and air pressure adjustments were used throughout the race to alleviate the car’s ill-handling ways, but adding to the team’s headaches was a slew of problems that only compounded their original difficulty in navigating the track’s tight confines.

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May 3, 2010

Atypical Outing for Stewart at Richmond

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Finishes Uncharacteristic 23rd at Favorite Track

Tony Stewart has enjoyed far more good days than bad at Richmond (Va.) International Raceway, as his five wins – three in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series and two in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series – attest. The bad days are atypical, for in addition to the three Sprint Cup wins, Stewart has four second-place finishes, seven top-threes, nine top-fives and 15 top-10s. There’s little wonder why he considers Richmond his favorite racetrack.

Nonetheless, bad days happen, and one of them came in Saturday night’s Crown Royal Heath Calhoun 400 when he finished an uncharacteristic 23rd.

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April 26, 2010

Time lapse video of Matterhorn car!

Check out this cool time lapse video of Tony’s Matterhorn car being painted.

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April 26, 2010

Stewart Survives Talladega

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Finishes 16th in Crash-Marred Race

It was far from an official win, but in a garage area surrounded by damaged racecars from a crash-marred Aaron’s 499, Tony Stewart’s 16th-place finish in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Talladega (Ala.) Superspeedway was a victory, nonetheless. Crew chief Darian Grubb said it best: “We survived Talladega.”

In a race that saw eight caution periods for 32 laps – four of which came in the race’s last 24 laps – survival was the name of the game. Yet, Stewart’s No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot “Matterhorn” Chevrolet still showed some game as it led one lap early in the 200-lap event and was a part of a handful of charges to the front, the last of which put him second on lap 180 thanks to some helpful pushing from Dale Earnhardt Jr.

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April 20, 2010

Late Accident Ends Stewart’s Promising Day at Texas

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Leads 74 Laps, but Finishes Disappointing 32nd

A day that began with a lot of promise and a start from the pole ended with a wrecked Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala and a disappointing 32nd-place finish for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) driver/owner Tony Stewart.

The Columbus, Ind., native led five times for 74 laps in Monday’s rain-postponed Samsung Mobile 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Texas Motor Speedway in Fort Worth, but Stewart’s 400th career Sprint Cup start ended badly when he was involved in a late-race multi-car accident that left him with his first DNF (Did Not Finish) of 2010.

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April 12, 2010

Stewart Wins and Loses at Phoenix

Office Depot/Old Spice Driver Finishes 23rd, but Teammate Newman Wins

Tony Stewart won Saturday night at Phoenix International Raceway, but not in the traditional way that most view the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet. In fact, Stewart the driver finished 23rd in the Subway Fresh Fit 600k NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at the 1-mile oval. Stewart the owner, however, got to stop in victory lane to congratulate his Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) teammate Ryan Newman on his first win as a member of SHR.

“As a driver, I hate the way I ran tonight. But as an owner, I’m very happy for Ryan, Tony Gibson (crew chief) and everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing for getting that ‘39’ car into victory lane,” said Stewart, who co-owns SHR with Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world. “They’ve worked so hard. They certainly earned this win. Just a really good win for all of our partners, especially Tornados, the U.S. Army and Haas Automation.”

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March 29, 2010

Long Weekend Produces Long Day For Stewart

Old Spice/Office Depot Driver Finishes 26th in Rain-Postponed Martinsville Race

For the first 65 laps of Monday’s rain-postponed Goody’s Fast Pain Relief 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway, it appeared as though Tony Stewart had a great chance for his third career victory at the .526-mile oval. Unfortunately, the handling on Stewart’s No. 14 Old Spice/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala became problematic, making for a long day for Stewart and crew chief Darian Grubb and relegating them to a disappointing 26th-place finish.

Rain was a problem for much of the weekend at Martinsville, as Friday’s qualifying session was canceled due to the wet conditions and Stewart was assigned the fifth starting spot after NASCAR set the line-up by current car owner points. More rain in southern Virginia pushed the race from Sunday to Monday.

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