KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Sept. 15, 2011) \u2013 Despite a year in which Tony Stewart is still winless, the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot\/Mobil 1 Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing has plenty of reason to be bullish in this weekend\u2019s Bear market.<\/p>\n
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series is taking top billing in the Windy City as the Chicago Bears play the second game of their NFL season down in New Orleans while Stewart and 42 other drivers compete in nearby Joliet, Ill., at Chicagoland Speedway. Hyping this weekend\u2019s event in downtown Chicago for two days before a wheel is even turned on the 1.5-mile oval are the 12 drivers vying for this year\u2019s championship, among which is Stewart.
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\nThe two-time Sprint Cup champion is making his seventh appearance in the Chase for the Sprint Cup \u2013 the 10-race slugfest that will determine this year\u2019s title-winner. Chicagoland kicks off the campaign for the first time this year, and it\u2019s Stewart whose track history at Chicagoland suggests he will make his case for a third Sprint Cup crown immediately.<\/p>\n
Stewart has a presence at Chicagoland that would make the longstanding political powerbrokers of Chicago proud. Of the 10 Sprint Cup races Chicagoland has hosted since its appearance on the Sprint Cup tour in 2001, Stewart has scored a pole, two wins, four top-threes and seven top-fives. He has only finished outside the top-five three times, and his average finish at Chicagoland is 9.5. His laps-led tally is at the top of the charts, too, for his 396 total laps led are 70 more than his nearest competitor in this category, Jimmie Johnson.<\/p>\n
With a reconfigured point tally that\u2019s been wiped nearly clean, Stewart\u2019s bid for another championship begins anew. He starts round No. 1 of the 10-race Chase only 12 points behind series leader Kyle Busch. And with Chicagoland being one of Stewart\u2019s best tracks, there\u2019s good reason to be bullish on Stewart in this Bear market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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