Office Depot/Old Spice Driver a Runaway Winner at Auto Club Speedway
Coming into the weekend, Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, Calif., was one of only three venues the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series visits where Tony Stewart had yet to score a Sprint Cup victory in his 12-year career ? Las Vegas Motor Speedway and Darlington (S.C.) Raceway being the others. But the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) led three times for 27 laps over the final 51 tours around the 2-mile oval to win Sunday?s Pepsi Max 400 and check the Southern California facility off his ?to-do? list.
More importantly, the victory ? where Stewart was able to keep the hard-charging Clint Bowyer and Jimmie Johnson behind him on a restart with just two laps remaining ? vaulted Stewart from 10th to fifth in the Chase for the Championship, 107 points behind Chase leader Johnson with six races remaining.
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