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Stewart Grabs 3rd Nationwide Daytona Win

Feb 16, 2008 – 4:39 PM
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Geoffrey Miller

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For as much as Toyota struggled with their entry into the Nationwide and Sprint Cup Series in 2007, they've seemingly made that up already during speedweeks at Daytona in 2008.

Tony Stewart continued that success in his No. 20 Armor All Toyota Camry Saturday afternoon Daytona in winning the Nationwide Series Camping World 300.

Stewart led 46 laps -- just one less than teammate Kyle Busch who led the most -- en route to his third career win in the opening event of the Nationwide Series. The two Gibbs drivers were the class of the field all day long.

Toyota took three of the top 5 spots and took it to the field most of the day. Brian Vickers, who qualified for Sunday's Daytona 500 by virtue of his Gatorade Duel qualifying race, finished 4th after battling for and taking the lead after a late restart.

Incredibly, the largest wreck of the day only involved roughly seven cars in a long slide off of turn four. The hardest hit, though, was suffered by Mark Green who get hung in the right rear by a spinning David Gililland and slammed the turn 2 wall head on.

Stewart's win was the first time a driver has won the Nationwide Series race at Daytona from the pole.
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