Stewart 4-Peats at Daytona

by | Feb 19, 2011 | NASCAR

Stewart 4-Peats at Daytona

Oreo/Ritz Driver Collects Sixth Win in Seven Years in Nationwide Series Season-Opener

Date: Feb. 19, 2011
Event: DRIVE4COPD 300 (Round 1 of 34)
Series: NASCAR Nationwide Series
Location: Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway (2.5-mile oval)
Start/Finish: 14th/1st (Running, completed 120 of 120 laps)
Winner: Tony Stewart of Kevin Harvick Inc. (Chevrolet)

Tony Stewart scored his fourth straight win in the season-opening NASCAR Nationwide Series race at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway by nosing his No. 4 Oreo/Ritz Chevrolet Impala just ahead of his Kevin Harvick Inc., (KHI) teammate Clint Bowyer in the DRIVE4COPD 300.

The .007 of a second margin of victory was the third closest finish in Nationwide Series history and the closest in series history at Daytona since the introduction of electronic scoring in 1993. It was also Stewart’s sixth win in the February Nationwide Series race at Daytona in the last seven years.
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2011 DRIVE4COPD 300 – Tony Stewart Wins

by | Feb 19, 2011 | NASCAR, Video

2011 DRIVE4COPD 300 – Tony Stewart Wins

Stewart captures fourth straight DRIVE4COPD 300

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. – Tony Stewart made a late charge with the aid of outside pole-sitter Landon Cassill to steal the win from the tandem of Clint Bowyer and Dale Earnhardt Jr. by .007 seconds in Saturday’s 53rd annual DRIVE4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at historic Daytona International Speedway.
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NCWTS Race Recap: Waltrip slingshots past Sadler for Daytona truck win

by | Feb 19, 2011 | NASCAR

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Ten years to the day from his first victory in the Daytona 500, Michael Waltrip made a slingshot pass of Elliott Sadler at the end of a green-white-checkered-flag finish Friday night to win the NextEra Energy Resources 250 Camping World Truck Series race at Daytona International Speedway.

The victory in the season opener, which went three laps past its scheduled distance of 100 laps, was Waltrip’s first in the truck series.

It also was the 10th anniversary of the death of Dale Earnhardt Sr., who owned the car Waltrip drove to his 2001 Daytona 500 victory. Waltrip is racing in all three of NASCAR’s top three touring series this weekend, and he decaled his truck and cars to honor Earnhardt.
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