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Three-time Cup champion Tony Stewart’s first Nhra Top Fuel victory last weekend at Las Vegas won memories for him from when he won the 2009 Nascar All-Star race on Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Stewart’s victory this past weekend added a long list of victories in many types of motorsport, including Nascar, Indy Cars, IROC, SRX, Sprint Cars, Midget cars and others.
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After having his first Nhra Top Fuel with a run of 317.42 km / h in his 11,000 PK drawer, the 53-year-old Stewart celebrated, but his mind turned quickly.
“I was so excited just to win the race for myself until the team got up,” Stewart told reporters on Tuesday. ‘… it brought me back in 2009 when our Stewart-Haas Racing started, and I can remember winning the All-Star race on Charlotte and coming to Victory Lane.
Las Vegas, NV – April 13: Top Fuel Manager Tony Stewart celebrates with his wife Leah, son Dominic, and his crew after his first career national event on the Nhra Mission Foods Drag Racing series four -wide citizens on April 13, 2025 in the Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway in Las Vegas. (Photo by Will Lester/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images)
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“I was in that mode, here people told me I was crazy to leave Joe Gibbs Racing to go to a team that had a car 34th and 36th, and I ruined my career by doing so. Here we were from February to May … We won the highest paying event of the year with the All-Star race.
‘… they used to pull a semi -trailer there earlier and the crew lues sat on the edge of the trailer. I remember looking there and half of the guys were in tears. I looked at one of the guys and I’m like ‘what’s wrong? What happened? ‘
“They said that a group of guys have never won a Nascar Cup series race. At that moment, I realized that it was not about me, it was not about it that I would prove to all the Naysayers that I would fail with Stewart. It was deeper than that. It was about the guys and the people we sat, and the people we had in the abdomen (after his NH, it looked like us. Win). “
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Stewart shocked the sport when he announced in 2008 that he would leave Joe Gibbs Racing-where he won in 2002 and ’05 Cup titles-to become a part-owned and manager in Haas CNC Racing, which became Stewart-Hare Racing. Haas CNC Racing has not had much success before Stewart arrived.
That all-Star victory was his first with the team. Stewart won four point races with SHR in 2009. He collected his third cup title in 2011 and gave the organization the first series of Crown.
Stewart is in his second year in Nhra Top Fuel. He was selected as the NHRA renewal of the year in 2024. He took over the woman Leah Pruett’s ride in 2024 so that they could start a family. Son Dominic was born in November 2024.
“I think it was probably one of the coolest parts of (winning) was to see how Leah Dominic brings them to the small stage that they bring on the racing traces so the supporters can participate on Sunday,” Stewart said. “I had no idea that she would come with him, and when I turned around and saw her, I literally lost it there. It’s a wonderful feeling to have him there. “
