Modesto Bee Logo

Stewart's 2nd place finish matches season's best | Modesto Bee

×
  • E-edition
  • Home
    • Customer Service
    • Mobile & Apps
    • Newsletters
    • Buy Photos
    • Submit a Photo
    • Search Archives

    • News
    • Politics
    • Local News
    • Crime
    • Bee Investigator
    • Education
    • Turlock
    • Oakdale
    • California News
    • Nation & World
    • Scott Peterson Case
    • Local Sports
    • Sports
    • High School
    • High School Football
    • High School Athletes
    • College
    • Outdoors
    • Camps, clinics listings
    • Pro Sports
    • NFL
    • MLB
    • Giants
    • A's
    • 49ers
    • Raiders
    • NBA
    • Politics
    • The California Influencer Series
    • Business
    • Biz Beat
    • Agriculture
    • Employment News
    • Real Estate
    • Living
    • Celebrations
    • Family
    • Fashion
    • Food & Drink
    • Health & Fitness
    • Pets
    • Travel
    • Worship Directory
    • Entertainment
    • Movies
    • Music
    • TV News
    • Contests
    • Comics
    • Puzzles & Games
    • Horoscopes
    • Modesto Bee Rewards
    • All Opinion
    • Editorials
    • Letters to the Editor
    • Influencers Opinion
    • National Issues
    • State Issues
    • Submit a Letter
    • Mike Dunbar
    • Community Voices
    • Obituaries
    • View Obituaries
    • Place Obituary Ad

    • dealsaver
    • Classifieds
    • Place Classified Ad
    • Pets
    • Garage Sales
    • Real Estate
    • Apartment and Rentals
    • Jobs
    • RVs/Motorhomes
    • Merchandise
    • Service Directory
    • Place an Ad
    • Place Celebration
    • Place Obituary Ad
    • Place Classified Ad
    • Place Legal Ad
  • Jobs
  • Moonlighting
  • Cars
  • Homes
  • See Legal Notices
  • Mobile & Apps

NASCAR & Auto Racing

Stewart's 2nd place finish matches season's best

    ORDER REPRINT →

August 03, 2008 05:48 PM

David Poole

dpoole@charlotteobserver.com

LONG POND, Pa. - Tony Stewart was back where he feels like he belongs toward the end of Sunday's Pennsylvania 500, running with the best cars near the front of the pack.

Stewart finished second to Carl Edwards, matching his best finish of the season. He was also the runner-up in the season's fourth race at Atlanta Motor Speedway, and this was only his third top-five finish in the past 14 races.

SIGN UP

Sign Up and Save

Get six months of free digital access to The Modesto Bee

SUBSCRIBE WITH GOOGLE

#ReadLocal

Stewart is still looking for his first win of the season, but this was definitely more like it.

"For us, that's a win," Stewart said after joking about having forgotten what it was like to come to the media center for interviews of the top-three finishers. "We finally got up to run with the guys who ran up front all day.

"After the slump we've been in it's a great feeling to do that again. With the success we've had sometimes you can take that for granted a little bit."

Stewart is in his final season with Joe Gibbs Racing, of course, but before he leaves to become co-owner of Stewart Haas Racing next year he still has a lot of racing he wants to do in the No. 20 Toyota.

Stewart moved up one spot to ninth in the Sprint Cup standings with Sunday's finish. He's still just 68 points clear of 13th-place Matt Kenseth in the jumble for the final Chase spots. Only 126 points separates seventh-place Kasey Kahne from 14th-place Carl Edwards in the race for 12 Chase slots.

"It seemed like we were an eighth- to 10th-place car before the red flag," Stewart said, speaking of a delay of 41 minutes 6 seconds for rain with just more than 70 laps left in the scheduled distance. "After that, I think the track tightened up a lot. We were just too loose until that."

Stewart now hopes that Sunday's good finish converts into momentum for next week's road-course event at Watkins Glen, N.Y. Stewart won the race there a year ago and he thinks that even can be an important milestone in a season.

"Watkins Glen is one of those races where you have maybe two handsful of guys who really like going there," Stewart said. "About half of them can take it or leave it and the other quarter would be fine if we didn't go there or Sonoma.

"When you come out of the Glen, I think, is when you really want to be on a hot streak."

Related stories from Modesto Bee

HOMEPAGE

<b>Pennsylvania 500 results</b>

August 03, 2008 12:12 PM

  Comments  

Videos

See flooding in streets in Big Bear from rain

Heavy snow reduces visibility on Illinois roads

View More Video

Trending Stories

Two men shot at a family celebration in Ceres, leaving one in critical condition

February 16, 2019 08:48 PM

Police investigate shooting in east Modesto

February 16, 2019 12:01 PM

Grab a beer, dinner and a car wash at this new development coming to Turlock

February 16, 2019 04:31 PM

Ted the pet duck takes a waddle on the wild side, runs afowl of the law in Oakdale

February 16, 2019 04:15 PM

Pedestrian killed trying to cross Highway 108 in Sonora, CHP says

February 16, 2019 10:31 AM

Read Next

The Latest: Watt prepares for Daytona 500 by watching film

Celebrities

The Latest: Watt prepares for Daytona 500 by watching film

The Associated Press

    ORDER REPRINT →

February 17, 2019 10:31 AM

J.J. Watt used an offseason film session to prepare for the Daytona 500.

KEEP READING

Sign Up and Save

#ReadLocal

Get six months of free digital access to The Modesto Bee

SUBSCRIBE WITH GOOGLE

MORE NASCAR & AUTO RACING

Byron, Bowman start from front row in 61st Daytona 500

Sports

Byron, Bowman start from front row in 61st Daytona 500

February 17, 2019 07:07 AM
New-look Daytona 500 has a certain throwback feel

Nation & World

New-look Daytona 500 has a certain throwback feel

February 16, 2019 11:44 PM
Fresh faces and new sponsors give Daytona 500 throwback feel

Sports

Fresh faces and new sponsors give Daytona 500 throwback feel

February 16, 2019 04:14 PM
Michael Annett wins Xfinity Series opener at Daytona

Sports

Michael Annett wins Xfinity Series opener at Daytona

February 16, 2019 03:57 PM

Celebrities

Daytona 500 announces 4th consecutive sellout

February 16, 2019 02:19 PM
Drivers competing in the 2019 Daytona 500

Celebrities

Drivers competing in the 2019 Daytona 500

February 16, 2019 02:05 PM
Take Us With You

Real-time updates and all local stories you want right in the palm of your hand.

Icon for mobile apps

Modesto Bee App

View Newsletters

Subscriptions
  • Start a Subscription
  • Customer Service
  • eEdition
  • Vacation Hold
  • Pay Your Bill
  • Rewards
Learn More
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Newsletters
  • News in Education
Advertising
  • Advertising Information
  • Place Obituary or Celebration
  • Place Classified, Legal
  • Local Deals
Copyright
Privacy Policy
Terms of Service


Back to Story