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Tony Stewart WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race in Shelby American
Press Release
- Tony Stewart led twice for seven laps to earn WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors in today’s Shelby American. Stewart led for the first time this season. He has now led 117 times in 262 NASCAR Sprint Cup superspeedway races for a total of 6,093 laps.
- Stewart scored a seventh-place finish in today’s race, his second consecutive top-10. He racked up his 157th career top-10 on a superspeedway.
- Stewart is 11th in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship standings, 11 points ahead of 12th-place Kyle Busch and three behind 10th-place Carl Edwards.
- STEWART QUOTES: “We ended up seventh but you always want more. I struggled on restarts. It took me a couple of laps to get going. You lose so much time here on restarts like that. Just makes it a long day.”
- THREE RACES, THREE DIFFERENT FACES: Stewart, Jeff Burton and Kevin Harvick have all captured WIX Filters Lap Leader of the Race honors this season.
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD STANDINGS
Kevin Harvick 1 Jeff Burton 1 Tony Stewart 1
WIX FILTERS LAP LEADER AWARD WINNERS BY RACE
EVENT DRIVER Daytona 500 Kevin Harvick, 41 laps Auto Club 500 Jeff Burton, 46 laps Shelby American Tony Stewart, seven laps
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