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CONCORD, NC – MAY 24: Tony Stewart, driver of the #20 The Home Depot Chevrolet, smiles while sitting in his car during practice for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on May 24, 2007 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jason Smith/Getty Images for NASCAR)
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CONCORD, NC – MAY 24: Tony Stewart, driver of the #20 The Home Depot Chevrolet, smiles while sitting in his car during practice for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Coca-Cola 600 on May 24, 2007 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Concord, North Carolina. (Photo by Jason Smith/Getty Images for NASCAR)
Earlier, Chase Briscoe went on to snatch his maiden NASCAR Cup Series win for Stewart-Haas Racing. During the same weekend, drag racer Matt Hagan won at Gainesville for Tony Stewart Racing. Owing to that, Tony Stewart has now become the fifth team owner to see his team win in NASCAR and the NHRA.
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The former Cup Series champion now joins some pretty elite company. Aside from him, other successful NASCAR and NHRA owners are Kenny Bernstein, Raymond Beadle, Jack Roush, and Joe Gibbs. Of course, Gibbs and Roush still have teams competing in NASCAR. Additionally, these teams have been very successful in the Cup Series arena.
How does Tony Stewart compare to the other team owners?
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Bernstein owned the now-defunct King Racing team, which took three Cup wins. Two of them came at the hands of Ricky Rudd in 1988 and 1989, and one from Brett Bodine in 1990. Meanwhile, Bernstein’s drag racing team has also racked up a few wins. Beadle was the owner of the Blue Max Racing team, which ended up winning the Cup Series championship with Rusty Wallace. Like Bernstein, Beadle had also racked up a few wins in the drag racing circuit.
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HOMESTEAD, FL – NOVEMBER 19: Tony Stewart, driver of the #20 Home Depot Chevrolet, during qualifying for the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series Ford 400 on November 19, 2005 at Homestead Miami Speedway in Homestead, Florida. (Photo by Streeter Lecka/Getty Images)
Roush partnered with Wayne Gapp to compete and even win various NHRA and other drag racing championships. In the NASCAR arena, Roush Fenway Racing won the 2003 and 2004 titles with Matt Kenseth and Kurt Busch respectively. Finally, there is former NFL coach, Joe Gibbs, who is the most well-known after Stewart. In the NHRA scene, his team has produced a champion, in the form of Cruz Pedregon.
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In NASCAR, the Joe Gibbs Racing team boasts of five Cup Series titles. The first one came in 2000, at the hands of Bobby Labonte. Tony Stewart himself delivered the next two in 2002 and in 2005. Finally, Kyle Busch notched up the final two Cup titles in 2015 and in 2019. Now, Busch, Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr, and Christopher Bell are gunning for the outfit’s 6th crown.
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