Tony Stewart
Daytona International Speedway
Bud Shootout

Budweiser Shootout car – Chassis No. 199:
This is a brand new car that has never turned a wheel on a race track. It has, however, been tested numerous times in the wind tunnel. After the Shootout, Chassis No. 199 will serve as the No. 20 team’s backup for the Daytona 500.

Daytona 500 car – Chassis No. 153:
This is a relatively old Car of Tomorrow chassis. Prior to making its debut at Talladega last October – where it started 11th and finished eighth after leading four times for 38 laps before getting shuffled out of the draft on the final lap – Chassis No. 153 was tested on numerous occasions and served as a backup at many venues, but never raced. In preparation for Talladega, it tested at the 2.66-mile oval Sept. 10-11. Since competing at Talladega, Chassis No. 153 has been a regular in the wind tunnel. Its most recent test came at Daytona Jan. 14-16, where it posted the sixth quickest time overall among single-car runs (48.624 seconds at 185.094 mph).

Budweiser Shootout Notes of Interest:
• Stewart is a three-time Budweiser Shootout winner, having won the non-point race in 2001, 2002 and 2007.
• Stewart is the defending champion of the Budweiser Shootout. He started 14th and led twice for 11 laps in last year’s 70-lap exhibition race.
• Twenty-one drivers comprised last year’s field of pole winners from the previous Sprint Cup season and past Budweiser Shootout winners.
• Stewart is one of only three drivers to have won two straight Budweiser Shootouts. They are…
  • Tony Stewart – 2001 & 2002
  • Ken Schrader – 1989 & 1990
  • Neil Bonnett – 1983 & 1984
• The driver with the most Budweiser Shootout victories is the late Dale Earnhardt with six. Stewart beat Earnhardt to win his first Budweiser Shootout in 2001.
• In eight career Budweiser Shootout starts, Stewart has only one finish outside of the top-seven. He finished 15th in the 2003 race.
• Stewart’s average finish in the Budweiser Shootout is 4.5, the best among active drivers with more than one Shootout appearance.
• Joe Gibbs Racing has won the past two Budweiser Shootouts, with Denny Hamlin winning in 2006 and Stewart winning in 2007.
• Joe Gibbs Racing has a total of four Budweiser Shootout victories (three by Stewart and one by Hamlin).

  Daytona 500 Notes of Interest:

• The Daytona 500 will mark Stewart’s 321st career NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start, his 19th career point-paying Sprint Cup start at Daytona and his 37th career point-paying start in a restrictor plate race.
• Stewart has 11 wins at Daytona (10 on the 2.5-mile oval, one on the 3.56-mile road course):
  • 2007 Budweiser Shootout
  • 2007 Gatorade Duel
  • 2006 Pepsi 400
  • 2006 IROC race (road course)
  • 2006 NASCAR Nationwide Series season-opener
  • 2005 Pepsi 400
  • 2005 NASCAR Nationwide Series season-opener
  • 2005 Gatorade Duel
  • 2002 IROC race
  • 2002 Budweiser Shootout
  • 2001 Budweiser Shootout
• Of the 699 laps Stewart has led in the 36 point-paying restrictor plate races he has run, 516 have been at Daytona (73.8 percent). The remaining 183 laps led have come at Talladega. Stewart has made 18 starts at Daytona and 18 starts at Talladega.
• Of the 747 laps available in the four restrictor plates run in 2005 – 203 laps in the Daytona 500, 194 laps at Talladega in May, 160 laps at Daytona in July and 190 laps at Talladega in October – Stewart led 325 of those laps (43.5 percent). And in those four races, Stewart finished seventh, second, first and second, respectively, to log an average finish of third.
• Of the 739 laps available in the four restrictor plate races run in 2006 – 203 laps in the Daytona 500, 188 laps at Talladega in April, 160 laps at Daytona in July and 188 laps at Talladega in October – Stewart led 118 of those laps (16 percent). And in those four races, Stewart finished fifth, second, first and 22nd, respectively, to log an average finish of seventh.
• Of the 2,228 laps available in the past 12 restrictor plate races (2005-2007), Stewart has led 523 of those laps (23.5 percent).
• In his Sprint Cup career, Stewart has two point-paying victories in restrictor plate races – the 2005 July race at Daytona where Stewart won the pole and led all but nine of the race’s 160 laps (94.4 percent) and the 2006 July race at Daytona where Stewart started second and led a racehigh 86 laps (53.8 percent).
• Stewart won his eighth career Sprint Cup pole at Daytona in July 2005. Stewart has 10 poles altogether, with the last one coming 77 races ago at Martinsville in October 2005.
• Stewart has five other Sprint Cup wins in non-point restrictor plate races. All have been at Daytona, with three victories in the Budweiser Shootout (2001, 2002 and 2007) and two victories in the Gatorade Duel (2005 and 2007).

  Joe Gibbs Racing Daytona Anecdotes:

• Joe Gibbs Racing has three point-paying Sprint Cup wins at Daytona, including its first NASCAR win – the 1993 Daytona 500:
  • 2006 July race was won by Stewart
  • 2005 July race was won by Stewart
  • 1993 Daytona 500 was won by former Joe Gibbs Racing driver Dale Jarrett
• Joe Gibbs Racing has six non-point Sprint Cup wins at Daytona:
  • 2007 Gatorade Duel was won by Stewart
  • 2007 Budweiser Shootout was won by Stewart
  • 2006 Budweiser Shootout was won by Denny Hamlin
  • 2005 Gatorade Duel was won by Stewart
  • 2002 Budweiser Shootout was won by Stewart
  • 2001 Budweiser Shootout was won by Stewart
• Joe Gibbs Racing has three Sprint Cup poles at Daytona:
  • 2005 July race pole was won by Stewart
  • 1998 July race pole was won by former Joe Gibbs Racing driver Bobby Labonte
  • 1998 Daytona 500 pole was won by Labonte
• Joe Gibbs Racing has four NASCAR Nationwide Series poles at Daytona:
  • 2007 February race pole was won by former Joe Gibbs Racing driver Aric Almirola
  • 2006 July race pole was won by former Joe Gibbs Racing driver J.J. Yeley
  • 2006 February race pole was won by Yeley
  • 2004 July race pole was won by former Joe Gibbs Racing driver Mike Bliss