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Tony Stewart Wins Prelude To The Dream At Eldora Speedway
Despite a late-minute surge from folks like drag racing champion Cruz Pedregon, who proved quite adept at turning circles at Wednesday night's fourth annual Old Spice Prelude to the Dream charity race at Eldora Speedway, the winner ended up being the man that brought the racers there — Tony Stewart. We're assuming we'll have more in the morning — including hopefully some pictures. But at the moment, we're too busy rioting in downtown Royal Oak over the Red Wings Stanley Cup victory. Full list of finishes below the jump. More » -
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Tony Stewart Edition Toyota Camry? Sort of.
We like when dealers try and take advantage of trends to make the special editions that the automakers were just too wimpy or cheap to attempt. In this case, we've got a Toyota dealer that's taking advantage of Tony Stewart and his racing a Camry in the NASCAR Sprint Cup series. How does it work? Take a black Toyota Camry, add gaudy orange touches, blacked-out NASCAR wheels, festoon with the #20 and charge an additional $7K. This makes sense to us as most NASCAR fans drive Toyotas, right? One thing you'll notice has not been added to this car is the name "Tony Stewart" as this would almost certainly draw a lawsuit. Anyone have an idea what stadium this is outside of?
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Prelude To The Dream: Watching NASCAR Drivers Learn How To Drive In The Dirt Is Dirty Work
"You know better than anybody how much I like having the car sideways, and actually to be sideways and in control is pretty cool."
Well, in case you haven't already heard, or weren't paying the mad money for charity for the HBO coverage last night, the winner of the Prelude to the Dream feature race was Carl Edwards piloting the #2 late model. If you're interested in the rest of the results, we've got them below the jump. But we've also got the skinny on some of the other fun that we experienced at Eldora Speedway last night — shots of the Qualifying runs, including Juan Pablo Montoya's first laps on a dirt track evah (including that shot above)! And since we're on the subject, if we'd ended up playing that drinking game off of JPM's laps as we'd posited earlier, we'd probably be pretty drunk. Although the man took a run directly into a wall in one of the late heats, he still managed to, as he said, "run pretty good." Juan made it through all 30 laps in the feature race at a middle-of-the-pack 15th place. Which ain't bad considering he knocked the front end of his car off. In addition, we've also got shots of the first heats to determine Group A and Group B status, which we've got to say — if you've never been to your local dirt track, get down there — it's exciting, it's fun and yes, it's dirty. But it's worth every bit of mud and grime you'll wipe off when you leave. Trust us. More »
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9:45 AM on Thu Jun 7 2007
By Ray Wert
3,237 views, 14 commentsLatest by DoctorNine makes tires squeal in terror: Hey, any time you get to throw it sideways on purpose, I call that fun. A little of this more »
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Prelude To The Dream: Juan Wreck Watch?
I feel like the shot above should be captioned "My name is Juan Pablo Montoya, Tony Stewart is behind me, prepare to die!" Sorry, just had to get that one out of my system. Anyone want a drinking game idea for tonight? How about taking a drink for every lap Juan Pablo Montoya finishes tonight? Wait. Scratch that. We just heard him say "I'm not even sure where or how to shift these cars." It'll probably be over too quick to get drunk. Anyone have any other drinking game ideas? Sorry, after just walking through the driver scrum, we're kinda going to be bored before the race starts. For the meantime, here's our scrumtastic gallery. More » -
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Prelude To The Dream: What To Watch For Tonight In The Dirt At Eldora Speedway
Well, we're now here in lovely Rossburg, Ohio in the lovelymedia roomtrailer outside of the track. We've already had a chance to get credentialed and although we were supposed to sign some release stating we wouldn't be able to take photos of the track — we may not have had the chance to sign it — wink, wink. So we're going to try our damndest to bring you the fun as we see it. Already we're hearing all sorts of fun stuff, and we've even heard from our track insider their five key points we've got to be watching for tonight. So, in no particular order — other than, you know, the top one — just because it'll be fun to watch:1.) Juan Pablo Montoya — here for a good cause, NEVER raced on dirt.
What are y'all gonna be watching for tonight on the dirt track — or what else should I be watching for? Stay with us tonight and I'll keep you in the loop at the Prelude To The Dream tag. More »
2.) Kurt Busch — is he coming? We know Tony hopes so? Will he and Tony get to "talk things over?"
3.) Jeff Gordon vs Tony Stewart — the prime matchup
4.) Red Farmer, the ageless wonder
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Jalopnik Gets Dirty With Nascar Tonight!
This afternoon I'll be taking a drive down to Rossburg, Ohio, the home of the Tony Stewart-owned Eldora Speedway, for an evening of late model stock car dirt racing action. Eldora's a local track that turns into a boomtown each year for the "Dream Week" — a multi-day extravaganza of mud culminating in Saturday's "Dream," a feature race that's basically the biggest thing around in the world of late-model dirt track racing. But we won't be there for the "Dream" race this Saturday, because there's already more than enough outlets around covering the real racing. Instead we'll just be there for tonight's annual Nascar charity 30-lap dirt race called the "Prelude To The Dream." See how they've done that — they've appended "Dream" with "Prelude." Aren't those Nascar boys smart? Anyway, we'll be down there in the mud this evening live-blogging Nascar racers Bill Elliott, Jeff Gordon, Bobby Labonte, track-owner Tony Stewart join up with other auto racing stars such as Juan Pablo Montoya and even drag racers Ron Capps and Cruz Pedregon. The last two might actually have the same turning-is-trouble problem as the Nascar folks — especially if they decide to run the race clockwise tonight. So check back here at the Prelude To The Dream tag throughout the evening and into the night as we'll be bringing you fresh and muddy coverage straight from the track. More » -
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NASCAR: Jeff Gordon Off the Top Rope!
Tony Stewart is claiming Nascar honchos are fixing the sport with "bogus" flags in order to control the outcomes. To wit;"I guess NASCAR thinks 'Hey, wrestling worked, and it was for the most part staged, so I guess it's going to work in racing, too.' I can't understand how long the fans are going to let NASCAR treat them like they're stupid before the fans finally turn on NASCAR. I don't know that they've run a fair race all year."
Hmmm. Since most fans see the sport as a longer version of baseball (an excuse to not mow the lawn/drink beer all day), we just don't think they'd care if Stewart's comments turn out to be true. Actually, the more we think about it, the more we realize just how much the sport would be improved if Cyndi Lauper, Mr. T and Liberace all got involved. More » -
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Daytona 500 Live-Blog: Tony Stewart's Loose Ass Causes A Problematic Crash
With Kurt Busch following Tony Stewart's loose ass into the oblivion of an early exit to the Daytona 500, we're now into the last 50 laps of the "Super Bowl of Racing." We've now got Martin Truex Jr. in the #1 Chevy car leading, with Mark Martin in the #01 Chevy car (not to be confused with the #1 car) following closely behind and Kyle Busch in 3rd place in his #5 Chevy. Yay, only 30-some-odd laps to go! More » -
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Midget Action With Tony Stewart
Inasmuch as we like the current crop of NASCAR drivers, Tony Stewart's our favorite. He's still got a bit of the old-school wild-boy streak in him; punching reporters, rescuing greyhounds and racing midgets in his spare time. The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette's Ben Smith checks in with Stewart, as well as the midget-racing scene, at the 50th anniversary Rumble in Indiana. It's one of the better pieces of newspaper motorsports coverage we've read in a while. More » -
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Tony Stewart Pulls an A.J.
Our pal Dave does a wicked Chris Economaki impression, spurred on by the time ol' Chris looked at his obviously-Middle Eastern last name on a pit pass and asked what tribe he was from. Quoth Dave: "The Germans weren't really as bad as everyone thinks. I mean, the Me 262? I mean, it's the DC-9! And what they learned from the Komet program directly translates into their expertise in USAC Sprint Car competition!" Apparently, Tony Stewart's familiarity with the diminutive Me 163 rocket interceptor is lacking, as he pitched in and spun wrenches with his USAC team at Manzanita Speedway, and by his own admission, "Did an A.J. Foyt to them, basically. I got wrenches in my hands and started changing things, and we proceeded to take two cars that started relatively close to the front and proceeded to make them look like they had dropped anchor." More »
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