Watkins Glen International has treated Tony Stewart extremely well over the Indiana native’s eight-year career.
Tony Stewart has made eight starts at the upstate New York road course and has finished on the lead lap in all eight of them. He has three wins there, four top fives and six top 10s. He’s finished out of the top 15 there only once – a 26th-place finish in 2001. Tony Stewart dominated there in 2005, leading 83 of 92 laps and earning a perfect Driver Rating of 150.0. He finished second to Kevin Harvick last year.
Over the past two years, Tony Stewart has a Driver Rating of 140.1 (best of any driver), an Average Running Position of 2.5 (best of any driver), 53 Fastest Laps Run (best of any driver) and is the only driver to run all 182 laps in the top 15.
Robby Gordon (No. 7 Jim Beam Ford) is another driver to watch at The Glen. Gordon’s last win came there in 2003 and overall he has six top-five finishes in eight races. He finished second there in 2005 and fourth last season, earning some of the best stats on the circuit over the past two years at The Glen. Gordon has the second best Driver Rating (116.0), the second-best Average Running Position (8.4), the second-fastest Green Flag Speed and the second-most Laps in the Top 15 (150).
Kevin Harvick will attempt to join Mark Martin, Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart as the only driver to win consecutive races at Watkins Glen. Kevin Harvick has four top-10 finishes in six starts and over the past two years has racked up some strong statistics. He has a Driver Rating of 106.5 (third best), an Average Running Position of 11.6 (fifth best), the third fastest Green Flag Speed and 136 Laps in the Top 15 (fourth most).
