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A race car driver competing first in open wheel racing and then in NASCAR. Stewart has won championships in NASCAR's top series as both driver and car owner in the Stewart Haas Racing partnership. Tony also owns Eldora Speedway and a dirt track team called Tony Stewart Racing.
2002 NASCAR Winston Cup Champion
2005 NASCAR Nextel Cup Champion
2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion
2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion as owner to Kevin Harvick's car
Tony Stewart's Home Depot sponsored race car appears on the cover of The 200-MPH Billboard by Mark Yost (2007)
Biography
The following section is an excerpt from Wikipedia's Tony Stewart page on 28 March 2016, text available via the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
Anthony Wayne "Tony" Stewart is an American professional stock car racing driver and NASCAR team owner. He is a three-time Sprint Cup Series champion as a driver. Throughout his racing career, Stewart has won racing titles in Indy, midget, sprint, and USAC Silver Crown cars. He is the only driver in history to win a championship in both IndyCar and NASCAR.
Stewart owns and drives the No. 14 Chevrolet SS in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series for his own team, Stewart-Haas Racing, under crew chief Mike Bugarewicz. From 1999 to 2008, he drove the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Racing car, under crew chief Greg Zipadelli with The Home Depot as the primary sponsor. While driving for car owner Joe Gibbs, Stewart won two Cup Series championships in 2002 and 2005. In 2011, Stewart became the first owner-driver since Alan Kulwicki to win the Cup Series championship, which ended Jimmie Johnson's streak of consecutive championships at five. Stewart is the only driver to win the Cup Series championship under the old points system and the chase playoff format, and is the only driver to win the title under three different sponsorships (Winston in 2002, Nextel in 2005, and Sprint in 2011). He is also the first driver in the Cup Series to win the championship by virtue of a tie breaker (number of wins during the season is the first level tie breaker; Stewart had five while eventual runner-up Carl Edwards had one).
Stewart also has a Sprint Cup Championship as an owner, as the Stewart-Haas owned No. 4 car driven by Kevin Harvick won the Cup in 2014. This gives Stewart four Sprint Cup Championships total for his career (two as a driver, one as an owner/driver, and one as an owner).
Reference Desk
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2002  Book | Tony Stewart: Driven to Win by Jason Mitchell; Triumph Books |
| 2003 Book | Stewart, Tony: True Speed: My Racing Life by Tony Stewart with Bones Bourcier; Harper Collins |
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| 16 July 2008 | Links is mad at Tony Stewart The Dirt Racing Connection |  DRC Page - 739KB - 0:47 |
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| Collector Card - 2003 Press Pass Optima 24 | Tony Stewart | Home Depot #20 |
| Collector Card - 2003 Press Pass Optima 44 | Tony Stewart | Home Depot #20 |
| Collector Card - 2003 Press Pass Optima FF23 | Tony Stewart | Fan Favorite: Home Depot #20 |
