{"id":4472,"date":"2011-02-19T19:46:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-20T00:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2011-02-19T20:14:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-20T01:14:42","slug":"2011-drive4copd-300-tony-stewart-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/2011-drive4copd-300-tony-stewart-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"2011 DRIVE4COPD 300 &#8211; Tony Stewart Wins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>2011 DRIVE4COPD 300 &#8211; Tony Stewart Wins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"640\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/l09rmRTwSxw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Stewart captures fourth straight DRIVE4COPD 300<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2013 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\u2019s 53rd annual DRIVE4COPD 300 NASCAR Nationwide Series race at historic Daytona International Speedway.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n            Stewart, who led five times for 13 laps, has dominated the season-opening NASCAR Nationwide Series event \u2013 winning four straight and six of the last seven. He is now just one shy of Dale Earnhardt\u2019s record seven wins and is tied with Bobby Allison for the second-most wins all-time at the \u201cWorld Center of Racing\u201d with 16. The late Dale Earnhardt tops the list with 34.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cThis is momentum and a great way to lead into tomorrow,\u201d said Stewart, who was 11th with six laps to go. \u201cThere\u2019s nothing better than going back to the motorhome tonight knowing you just won the race and have a shot of doing it tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Stewart\u2019s surge at the finish line gave the No. 4 Kevin Harvick, Inc. Chevrolet the closest series finish at DIS and the third-closest finish in series history.<\/p>\n<p>            \u201cTony just used me when he needed to and that\u2019s awesome,\u201d said Cassill, who is the series\u2019 points leader but doesn\u2019t have a ride in next week\u2019s race. \u201cHe taught me something. We swapped with two (laps) to go and he knew where to take the car and I don\u2019t know if I could have done that like he did. I\u2019m just happy to be pushing him through it and maybe next time I\u2019ll be the one leading him through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            Bowyer finished second with Cassill, Earnhardt Jr., and Reed Sorenson rounding out the top five, respectively.<br \/>\nDefending series champion Brad Keselowski kept his No. 22 Discount Tire Dodge near the front for most of the race until he was caught up in an incident on lap 106, breaking his record 102-straight races without a DNF.<\/p>\n<p>            Eight drivers swapped the lead a race-record tying 35 times and 12 drivers of the 43-car field completed all 120 laps around the 2.5-mile tri-oval. Danica Patrick led a lap in the No. 7 Chevrolet, making her the first woman to lead a NASCAR-sanctioned event at Daytona International Speedway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2011 DRIVE4COPD 300 &#8211; Tony Stewart Wins Stewart captures fourth straight DRIVE4COPD 300 DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. \u2013 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\u2019s 53rd annual DRIVE4COPD 300 NASCAR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[45,4145],"tags":[15775],"class_list":["post-4472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nascar","category-video","tag-nascar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4472\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}