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It’s the summer time and no one is hotter heading into Sunday’s Lenox Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway than Tony Stewart. Stewart is fresh of his third win of the season at Daytona last week and is looking to add to that win total this week.
History is on Stewart’s side in the coming weeks. Twenty-four of his 47 career Sprint Cup wins have come between June 1 and the September race in Richmond, just eight events from Sunday. He was second in this race last year and won in the fall, the last time the series visited here.
“Loudon was awfully good for us last year,” Stewart told reporters. “To start 1-2 and finish 1-2 in this race last year, and then to come back in the fall and have Ryan (Newman) win the pole again and for us to win the race, it really doesn’t get much better than that. When you run that well someplace, you love coming back. We had a dream weekend last July at New Hampshire and, really, a dream year. Now, we’ll just try and duplicate it.”
Stewart’s teammate Ryan Newman was the winner of the race here last summer. He is fighting for the Wild Card berth in the Chase. Newman has a win this season making him eligible for the Wild Card and coming off a fifth place finish last week at Daytona is looking to add to his win total. Five winners have started from the pole here, the most recent of those was Newman who started out front and finished there last year.
“You can’t really be overaggressive at this racetrack. It’s kind of a combination of patience and aggressiveness. You want to take what the car will give you because the track is flat,” Newman said. “It’s just a matter of feeling that razor-blade-edge of grip and getting everything you can and I’ve been successful at it there. It’s kind of clicked with me since the beginning. I really like the racetrack and obviously know how to drive it, which is a big part of it. It’s a good place to start up front because it’s a short race, and it’s not the easiest place to pass.”
Clint Bowyer is currently tenth in the standings and on the bubble to make the Chase. Coming off his surprise win on the road course at Sonoma a few weeks ago, he was seventh in the standings. Bowyer is looking to make up ground and this week the odds are with him to do just that. New Hampshire is one of Bowyer’s best tracks. He has two wins here, the most recent in 2010 and is the only repeat winner in the last nine races having led 222 laps in route to victory in 2007.
“When you go to certain race tracks as a racer, there's just certain places you take to better than others,” Bowyer said. “That's certainly been one of the places for me. We probably should have won a lot more races than just two Cup races there. I mean, we've dominated a few Truck races and some Nationwide races, but just never could get everything to fall our way. That being said, it's hard to get things to go your way 100 percent. It's one of the biggest races of the year for us.”
Party Crasher: Don’t count out Brad Keselowski. Keselowski was second here in the fall and like Stewart, has also been a summer performer with four of his seven wins – including three in 2011 when he qualified for the Chase as a Wild Card – coming during the June-August portion of the calendar.
Bottom Line: Hendrick Motorsports has won eight races at New Hampshire, more than any other organization. The deepest in the field that a New Hampshire race winner started was 38th, that being Jeff Burton in 1999. There have been five winners who started from the pole. The last race winner to win from the pole was Ryan Newman last season.
Odds to win the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 (Courtesy of *** Global)
Jimmie Johnson 5-1
Tony Stewart 6-1
Denny Hamlin 8-1
Jeff Gordon 8-1
Kurt Busch 10-1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 10-1
Kyle Busch 10-1
Brad Keselowski 12-1
Kasey Kahne 12-1
Kevin Harvick 12-1
Clint Bowyer 15-1
Ryan Newman 15-1
Carl Edwards 15-1
Martin Truex Jr. 15-1
Greg Biffle 25-1
Matt Kenseth 25-1
Joey Lagano 30-1
Jeff Burton 50-1
Juan Montoya 75-1
Brian Vickers 75-1
Aric Almirola 75-1
Jamie McMurray 100-1
Sam Hornish, Jr. 100-1
Paul Menard 100-1
Marcos Ambrose 100-1
Bobby Labonte 300-1
Regan Smith 300-1
David Ragan 300-1
David Gilliland 300-1
Field (Any Other Driver) 50-1
It’s the summer time and no one is hotter heading into Sunday’s Lenox Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway than Tony Stewart. Stewart is fresh of his third win of the season at Daytona last week and is looking to add to that win total this week.
History is on Stewart’s side in the coming weeks. Twenty-four of his 47 career Sprint Cup wins have come between June 1 and the September race in Richmond, just eight events from Sunday. He was second in this race last year and won in the fall, the last time the series visited here.
“Loudon was awfully good for us last year,” Stewart told reporters. “To start 1-2 and finish 1-2 in this race last year, and then to come back in the fall and have Ryan (Newman) win the pole again and for us to win the race, it really doesn’t get much better than that. When you run that well someplace, you love coming back. We had a dream weekend last July at New Hampshire and, really, a dream year. Now, we’ll just try and duplicate it.”
Stewart’s teammate Ryan Newman was the winner of the race here last summer. He is fighting for the Wild Card berth in the Chase. Newman has a win this season making him eligible for the Wild Card and coming off a fifth place finish last week at Daytona is looking to add to his win total. Five winners have started from the pole here, the most recent of those was Newman who started out front and finished there last year.
“You can’t really be overaggressive at this racetrack. It’s kind of a combination of patience and aggressiveness. You want to take what the car will give you because the track is flat,” Newman said. “It’s just a matter of feeling that razor-blade-edge of grip and getting everything you can and I’ve been successful at it there. It’s kind of clicked with me since the beginning. I really like the racetrack and obviously know how to drive it, which is a big part of it. It’s a good place to start up front because it’s a short race, and it’s not the easiest place to pass.”
Clint Bowyer is currently tenth in the standings and on the bubble to make the Chase. Coming off his surprise win on the road course at Sonoma a few weeks ago, he was seventh in the standings. Bowyer is looking to make up ground and this week the odds are with him to do just that. New Hampshire is one of Bowyer’s best tracks. He has two wins here, the most recent in 2010 and is the only repeat winner in the last nine races having led 222 laps in route to victory in 2007.
“When you go to certain race tracks as a racer, there's just certain places you take to better than others,” Bowyer said. “That's certainly been one of the places for me. We probably should have won a lot more races than just two Cup races there. I mean, we've dominated a few Truck races and some Nationwide races, but just never could get everything to fall our way. That being said, it's hard to get things to go your way 100 percent. It's one of the biggest races of the year for us.”
Party Crasher: Don’t count out Brad Keselowski. Keselowski was second here in the fall and like Stewart, has also been a summer performer with four of his seven wins – including three in 2011 when he qualified for the Chase as a Wild Card – coming during the June-August portion of the calendar.
Bottom Line: Hendrick Motorsports has won eight races at New Hampshire, more than any other organization. The deepest in the field that a New Hampshire race winner started was 38th, that being Jeff Burton in 1999. There have been five winners who started from the pole. The last race winner to win from the pole was Ryan Newman last season.
Odds to win the Lenox Industrial Tools 301 (Courtesy of *** Global)
Jimmie Johnson 5-1
Tony Stewart 6-1
Denny Hamlin 8-1
Jeff Gordon 8-1
Kurt Busch 10-1
Dale Earnhardt Jr. 10-1
Kyle Busch 10-1
Brad Keselowski 12-1
Kasey Kahne 12-1
Kevin Harvick 12-1
Clint Bowyer 15-1
Ryan Newman 15-1
Carl Edwards 15-1
Martin Truex Jr. 15-1
Greg Biffle 25-1
Matt Kenseth 25-1
Joey Lagano 30-1
Jeff Burton 50-1
Juan Montoya 75-1
Brian Vickers 75-1
Aric Almirola 75-1
Jamie McMurray 100-1
Sam Hornish, Jr. 100-1
Paul Menard 100-1
Marcos Ambrose 100-1
Bobby Labonte 300-1
Regan Smith 300-1
David Ragan 300-1
David Gilliland 300-1
Field (Any Other Driver) 50-1
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