Three-time Cup champion Tony Stewart’s first NHRA High Gasoline victory final weekend at Las Vegas rekindled reminiscences for him of when he gained the 2009 NASCAR All-Star Race at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Stewart’s victory this previous weekend added to a protracted record of triumphs in lots of types of motorsports, together with NASCAR, Indy automobiles, IROC, SRX, dash automobiles, midget automobiles and others.
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After clinching his first NHRA High Gasoline winwith a run of 317.42 mph in his 11,000-horsepower dragster, the 53-year-old Stewart celebrated however his ideas shortly turned.
“I used to be so excited simply to have gained that race for myself till the group acquired up there,” Stewart advised reporters Tuesday. “ … It introduced me again to a second again in 2009 after we began Stewart-Haas Racing, and I bear in mind successful the All-Star Race at Charlotte and attending to victory lane.
“I used to be in that mode, right here folks have been telling me I used to be loopy to depart Joe Gibbs Racing to go to a group that had a automotive thirty fourth and thirty sixth within the factors and I had ruined my profession by doing it. Right here we have been from February to Might … we win the best paying occasion of the yr with the All-Star Race.
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“ … They used to tug a semi trailer up there and the crew guys would sit on the sting of that trailer. I bear in mind trying on there and half of these guys have been in tears. I checked out one of many guys and I’m like, ‘What’s mistaken? What occurred?’
“They mentioned that group of fellows had by no means gained a NASCAR Cup Sequence race. That second, I noticed it was not about me, it was not about me proving to all of the naysayers that I used to be going to fail with Stewart-Haas. It was manner deeper than that. It was concerning the guys and the folks that we had put collectively and the folks we had stored from Haas Racing and wish it meant to all of us. That’s precisely what Sunday was as effectively (after his NHRA win).”
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Stewart shocked the game when he introduced in 2008 that he would depart Joe Gibbs Racing — the place he had gained Cup titles in 2002 and ’05 — to develop into a part-owner and driver in Haas CNC Racing, which turned Stewart-Haas Racing. Haas CNC Racing had not had a lot success earlier than Stewart arrived.
That All-Star victory was his first with the group. Stewart went on to win 4 factors races in 2009 with SHR. He collected his third Cup title in 2011 and gave the group its first sequence crown.
Stewart is in his second yr in NHRA High Gasoline. He was chosen because the NHRA Rookie of the Yr in 2024. He took over spouse Leah Pruett’s journey in 2024 so they may begin a household. Son Dominic was born in November 2024.
“I feel it was most likely one of many coolest elements of (successful) was seeing Leah deliver Dominic on the small stage they convey on the race tracks so the followers can be part of within the celebration Sunday,” Stewart mentioned. “I had no thought she was coming with him, and once I rotated and noticed her, I actually nearly misplaced it up there. That may be a nice feeling having him there.”
