* Tony Stewart won the rain-delayed Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at Watkins Glen International. Stewart scored his third victory in 2009. He is one of five drivers with multiple victories this season, joining Mark Martin (four), Jimmie Johnson (three), Kyle Busch (three) and Matt Kenseth (two). Stewart scored his 36th Sprint Cup Series victory in his 378th start. Stewart’s last win came at Daytona in July. Stewart led two times for 34 laps, including the final 24, the most by any driver. He has scored top-10 finishes in the last 10 races, extending a streak that began at Dover. Stewart posted his 225th career top-10 finish. Stewart remained 19th on NASCAR’s win list. He scored his fifth victory in 11 races at Watkins Glen. He has finished first or second in seven of his last eight races at Watkins Glen and has won five of the last eight — the most wins by any driver at The Glen. Stewart has a 756-point lead over 13th-place Kyle Bush. Stewart only has to start in the remaining four races to make the Chase.
* Stewart won at Watkins Glen in both of his Sprint Cup Series championship seasons (2002 and 2005). He has scored seven victories in 22 races on road course tracks. Stewart’s seven road course victories rank him second all-time behind Jeff Gordon with nine.
* Any driver more than 781 points behind 12th-place Matt Kenseth has been eliminated from the 2009 Chase.
* This marked the sixth Chevrolet victory in the past seven races at Watkins Glen. Chevrolet has scored 12 wins in 22 races in 2009, leading all manufacturers. Toyota has six while Dodge and Ford each have two. The top 10 consisted of four Toyotas, three Chevrolets, two Fords and one Dodge.
* Marcos Ambrose (finished second) scored his career-best finish in 33 races. Ambrose was one of five drivers to score top-10 finishes in both road course races in 2009. Drivers scoring top-10s in both road course races in 2009 were Stewart (first at WG/second at Infineon), Ambrose (second/third), Denny Hamlin (10th/fifth), Juan Pablo Montoya (sixth/sixth) and Clint Bowyer (ninth/eighth).
* Greg Biffle (fifth) posted just his third road course top-5 finish in 14 road course races. It was his best finish in seven races at Watkins Glen.
* Montoya has scored top-15 finishes in the past nine races, extending a streak that began at Pocono in June, all finishes of 12th or better.
* Johnson (12th) has led at least one lap in 18 of the 22 races in 2009, the most by any driver.
* Jeff Burton (38th) has finished 16th or worse in the past eight races, since Michigan in June.
* Bobby Labonte (20th) scored a milestone 300th career lead-lap finish.
* Stewart and Elliott Sadler (32nd) have each been running at the finish in the last 45 races, the longest current streak.
* The last time there were two postponed races in a row was Richmond/Darlington in May 2007. This marked the fifth race in 2009 affected by rain: Daytona ran 152 of 200 laps, Lowe’s ran 227 of 400 laps and Loudon ran 273 of 301. Lowe’s in May, Pocono in July and Watkins Glen in August all ran on Monday. This was the 75th race in series history run on Monday (34 were the Southern 500, where the race was scheduled for Monday each year).(ESPN/Racing Resources)(8-11-2009)
