The Backstretch Blog: Where there is Smoke, there is Fire

Tony Stewart was not going to be denied. There is no doubt about it. From the time the green flag dropped on Sunday afternoon, to the moment that either Bob Packrass or Dustin Long shutdown the Homestead Media Center, this final race of the year had more twist and turns than an episode of All My Children. Stewart made an unbelievable 118 passes to race twice from the back of the field, to the checkered flag and his third Sprint Cup Championship.

By HEATHER WILLIAMS

November 20, 2011