The pundits who follow NASCAR were calling last weeks race at the Monster Mile in Dover Delaware, "Separation Sunday". Those same pundits were calling the race at Talladega "Bring 'em Back Together Sunday". The 2.66 mile high banked speedway at Talledega is famous for two things, high speed and big wrecks...
From 1959 to 1992, NASCAR legend Richard Petty won 200 races, setting a career record that is pretty much unmatchable for active drivers. Still, today’s Sprint Cup racers compose arguably the strongest field of competition that the sport has ever known.
While stars such as Jeff Gordon and Jimmie Johnson may never reach Petty’s incredible peak, they have managed to accomplish feats that eluded even
Tony Stewart is known around the NASCAR garages as Smoke. Jimmie Johnson is known as 5-time, a reference to the number of times Johnson has won stock car racing's series championship. Sunday afternoon at Las Vegas Motor Speedway "Smoke" slipped through a crack in "5-times" defense and drove away with the victory in the Kobalt Tools 400.
Tony Stewart overcame a lousy starting position, some mistakes on pit road and dodged the raindrops at just the right time to win his third NASCAR Championship Sunday.