Rain gives Stewart a victory (St. Petersburg Times)
**Times wires**
Sunday, March 25, 2012
FONTANA, Calif. — When dark clouds obscured majestic Mount Baldy north of
Auto Club Speedway early in Sunday’s race, NASCAR’s drivers knew they probably
were in for a short day.
Nobody did a better job racing until the raindrops fell than Tony Stewart.
Stewart got his second Sprint Cup victory of the season when rain shortened
the Auto Club 400 race by 71 laps, extending the defending series champion’s
strong run.
“You hate to have it end with rain like that,” Stewart said. “But we’ve lost
some that way, and we didn’t back into the lead.”
Stewart and crew chief Steve Addington didn’t mention the rain to each other
until a few moments before it began falling at one end of the 2-mile oval. But
they already had done the work necessary to win. Stewart passed Busch 44 laps
before the race, run without cautions to that point, was stopped.
“Playing to the weather, everybody is trying to get everything they can get
toward the midway point of that race,” Stewart said.
Stewart has won seven of the past 15 races, including Las Vegas on March 11.
And after finishing 16th in …
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