Full Throttle

It took Tony Stewart 20 events (since last November at Texas) but he finally returned to the winners circle at Chicagoland Speedway.

Not since a little conflagration behind 137 DeKoven Street has Chicago seen as much “Smoke” as he he blitzed the field leading the most laps and driving away from Roush-Fenway teammates Matt Kenseth and Carl Edwards for his first win of 2007 and second at Chicagoland Speedway.

Stewart’s only competition was Jimmie Johnson, who led 82 laps, but a cut tire and had very hard meeting with the turn 3 wall relegating him to a 37^th place finish.

Without doing the math a combined Ryan Newman 8^th and a Dale Jr. 19^th place finishes has probably dropped Junior out and Newman into the “Anointed Twelve.”

More later…