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JOLIET, Ill. (AP) - Tony Stewart is pleased to have won twice in a row after nearly a year without a victory. He still believes, however, he's got plenty to prove before he becomes a true contender for NASCAR's Nextel Cup championship.
Stewart's victories — at the road course in Sonoma, Calif., two weeks ago and a dominating performance last week in the restrictor plate race at Daytona — told the driver and his Joe Gibbs Racing team very little about the rest of the season. NASCAR's top series races only twice a year on road circuits and only twice each at Daytona and Talladega, the two tracks where horsepower-sapping plates are used to keep the speeds down.
More telling, Stewart said, will be the results of Sunday's USG Sheetrock 400 on Chicagoland Speedway's 1 1/2-mile oval — a track where he has finished third, second and first in the past three seasons.
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