Tony Stewart looks to bounce back at Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas Speedway – NASCAR news
Tony Stewart is looking to put his dismal performance at Dover behind him and make amends for it at the Hollywood Casino 400 at the Kansas Speedway on Sunday, October 9, 2011.
Stewart currently lies in 3rd place, 9 points behind leaders Kevin Harvick and Carl Edwards. After back to back wins in the chase, a 25th place finish at Dover seems to have put his title charge in jeopardy
and he will be looking for a better finish at Kansas.
Stewart has quite a history at Kansas. He has won two races there in 2006 and 2009 and he could have won it in 2007 as well. Stewart was leading that race in Kansas before it started raining and the race had to be stopped for more than 2 hours.
After the restart, Stewart damaged his car while trying to avoid a crash of cars during the race. Things got worse for him as he got a flat and tried to slow down but Kyle Busch hit his car from behind, knocking him out of the race.
Having already won at Chicagoland, which is similar to the Kansas track and is sometimes called the ‘sister track’ to Kansas, Stewart will be confident of a good performance at Kansas. He was leading the race here earlier this season as well before his car
ran out of fuel near the end.
Speaking about the fuel-mileage situation, Stewart said that he was indifferent to it all as he has probably lost more races than he has won on fuel-mileage.
“I’ve lost a lot more races like that than I’ve won.” Stewart said. “To be in a situation where your speed is dictated off the guy behind you and not off of what you can do, it’s a different style of racing. It’s hard. It’s just as hard, if not tougher,
than trying to run 100 percent.”
Stewart admitted that that the defeat in Kansas still played on his mind and it was a risk that the team took which just did not pay off in the end.
“There are guys that have the opportunity to take chances and there are guys who don’t have the opportunity to take chances. With that, it creates a lot of different scenarios at the end of the day. We took a chance that year,” he said.
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