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It's hard to wipe the smile off Tony Stewart's whisker-covered face these days. Since failing by just 16 points to make it into NASCAR's Chase for the Nextel Cup championship _ relegating him to a season finish no better than 11th _ the two-time series champion has been on a roll. He's won three of the eight Chase races so far, including the last two in a row, and has ...

Tony Stewart was on fumes. Jimmie Johnson was fuming. Eliminated from championship contention, Stewart gambled on fuel mileage. It paid off _ but just barely, as Stewart crawled across the finish line Sunday to win the Banquet 400 race at Kansas Speedway. Meanwhile, Johnson tried to play it safe to remain in championship contention, giving up the race lead to pit for an extra splash of fuel with four laps to go. But he was penalized for speeding on ...

In a performance not befitting of a champion, Tony Stewart eliminated himself from title contention with a miserable showing at Richmond International Raceway. The two-time and defending series champion fell apart this weekend, starting with a wreck that destroyed his primary Chevrolet minutes into the first practice and capping it with a lacklustre 18th-place finish in Saturday night's race. Stewart, who said earlier this season he deserved to be fired if he ever missed NASCAR's Chase for the ...

Tony Stewart hadn't even gotten his car up to full speed Friday at Richmond International Raceway before it was back to the drawing board for his Joe Gibbs Racing team. Stewart crashed in the opening moments of practice on the .75-mile oval, sending the No. 20 team scrambling to ready the two-time and defending NASCAR Nextel Cup champion's backup Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Not an auspicious way to begin a week in which Stewart's still fighting to wrap ...

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) _ Tony Stewart is many things, but the Emily Post of NASCAR etiquette is most certainly not one of them. Stewart wants to preach a give-and-take attitude on the race track. Yet when it comes time to practise it, NASCAR's champion only wants to take as much as he can get. He longs for a garage leader like the late Dale Earnhardt, who made it his ...

By Mark Long DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Tony Stewart may have climbed his last fence. It's not because he's tired of winning. The two-time Nextel Cup champion is concerned about injuries and suspects such antics wear him out. ``This is going to kill me,'' Stewart said shortly after climbing the fence at Daytona International Speedway to celebrate his second consecutive victory in the Pepsi 400 on Saturday night. The ...

By Jenna Fryer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Tony Stewart's slump is over, his shoulder is fine and his fence-climbing is as good as ever. His moves in a mosh pit leave something to be desired. Stewart was back to his on-track dominance and off-track hijinks, winning at Daytona International Speedway by charging to the lead with two laps to go Saturday night. He then celebrated with his trademark climbing ...

By Jenna Fryer DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) _ Tony Stewart proved he knows his way around every inch of Daytona International Speedway by winning the International Race of Champions event on the road course Thursday night. Stewart, who has seven career victories on the superspeedway, started 11th but wasted no time working his way through the 12-car field. He was third after the first full lap, and took the lead ...

SONOMA, Calif. (AP) _ His broken right shoulder blade is getting to be a sore subject for Tony Stewart. ``This is the last time we're going to answer this,'' he said Thursday when the topic came up as he talked with reporters at Infineon Raceway in advance of Sunday's Dodge/Save Mart 350. ``It's 100 per cent.'' Stewart, who won last year at Infineon, was injured in two hard crashes last ...

LONG POND, Pa. (AP) _ Tony Stewart is done talking about his injured shoulder. With Stewart's gutty third-place finish in Sunday's Pocono 500, the defending NASCAR champ showed he can drive as well with one bum shoulder as he can with two good ones. Stewart felt no soreness and said he felt close to full strength after driving all 500 miles two weeks after he broke his right shoulder blade ...