There are no doubts that the track of Daytona seems to smile east year to the ex- champion 2002 and 2005 Tony to him Stewart. This time the pilot of the car #20 adjudged the first Gatorade Duel de Daytona, besides to have prevailed in Budweiser Shootout in this same week.
Stewart acceded to the first position in return 17 of 24. Finally it had to support the pressure of another Chevrolet, in this case the one of Dale Earnhardt Jr, in the final returns.
“It has been one week amazing for us. I have secured the triumph in Budweiser Shootout and in the Gatorade Duel but the primary target it is to gain Daytona 500”, explained Stewart.
Jeff Burton, David Gilliland and Denny Hamlin completed the five first classified, whereas Michael Waltrip finalized eighth and a position in departure grilla made sure the 500 miles, after to have undergone a series of scandalous penalties after which its Toyota car subsequent to presented/displayed technical irregularities during the revision Budweiser Pole Qualifying.
On the other hand Jeff Gordon gained consecutive the second Gatorade Duel for the second time, victory had located that it in the fourth position of exit for the 500 miles, but the car of Jeff did not surpass the realized technical inspection after the race.
As a result of this, Gordon will have to start from position 42 of grilla.
“We have detected a hole in the back shock absorbers of its car”, began saying Robin Pemberton, Vice-president of NASCAR competition. “We think that he was intentional and even very risky.”
Even so there will be acquittal of points nor no penalty for Steve Letarte, first engineer of car no. 24 DuPont.
The triumph of Jeff Gordon was product of a good strategy of pits, placing only two of four new tires with ten returns ahead. The yield of its Chevrolet improved remarkably and Jeff acceded to the leadership with certain facility.
Meanwhile in this second race participated to the Colombian star Juan Pablo Montoya. The pilot of Dodge got to lead the competition briefly until a rim broke and brought about the abandonment of the Colombian after 24 returns.
“He was phenomenal”, expressed Juan. “The first thing that I said first engineer was, I do not want to run in a compact group of three in bottom. I want to maintain my distance. From the first return already we ran in front of the group.”
Kurt Busch, ex- champion of the series, arrived secondly followed of David Stremme, Kyle Busch, Matt Kenseth, J.J. Yeley, Carl Edwards, Ryan Newman, Joe Nemechek and Tony Raines.

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