by TonyStewart.com

Car No.: 20 — Joe Gibbs Racing Home Depot Chevrolet Monte Carlo

Teammates: Bobby Labonte in the #18 Interstate Batteries Chevrolet & Jason Leffler in the #11 FedEx Chevrolet

Primary Team Members
Driver: Tony Stewart	Crew Chief: Greg Zipadelli
Car Chief: Scott Diehl (pronounced "Deal")	Engine Builder: Mark Cronquist
Engine Specialist: Jarrad Egert (pronounced "Egg-ert")	Spotter: Mark Robertson

Over-The-Wall Crew Members
Gas Man: Jeff "Gooch" Patterson	Front Tire Changer: Ira-Jo Hussey
Catch Can: Brian "Shaggy" Larson	Front Tire Carrier: Tom Dean
Windshield: Scott Geerts (pronounced "Gurtz")	Rear Tire Changer: Todd Foster
Jackman: Chuck White	Rear Tire Carrier: Jody Fortson

Other Crew Members
Truck Drivers: Scott "Scooter" Crowell	Frank Hodel
Tire Specialists: Jerold Shires and Bill Byrne	Brake Specialist: Jason Shapiro
Shock Specialist: Ronny Crooks and Dave Hansen	Engineer: Adam Stevens

Team History at Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Year	Event	Start	Finish	Status/Laps	Led	Earnings
x 2004	Brickyard 400	24	5	Running/161	0	$247,278
2003	Brickyard 400	15	12	Running/160	60	$224,728
2002	Brickyard 400	1	12	Running/160	43	$185,953
2001	Brickyard 400	9	17	Running/160	3	$119,060
2000	Brickyard 400	18	5	Running/160	0	$189,475
1999	Brickyard 400	11	7	Running/160	0	$162,635

x Race length extended due to green-white-checker finish.

Tony Stewart's Indianapolis 500 History
Year	Event	Start	Finish	Status/Laps	Led	Earnings
2001	Indianapolis 500	7	6	Running/200	13	$218,850
1999	Indianapolis 500	24	9	Running/196	0	$186,670
1998	Indianapolis 500	4	33	Engine/22	1	$220,250
1997	Indianapolis 500	2	5	Running/200	64	$345,056
1996	Indianapolis 500	1	24	Engine/82	44	$222,053

Tony Stewart's Indianapolis IROC History
Year	Event	Start	Finish	Status/Laps	Led	Earnings
2002	IROC XXVI	10	11	Running/40	0	N/A
2001	IROC XXV	4	2	Running/40	8	N/A
2000	IROC XXIV	10	3	Running/40	0	N/A

Notes of Interest

The Allstate 400 at The Brickyard will mark Stewart's 233rd career NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series start and his seventh career Nextel Cup start at Indianapolis.

Stewart gained one position in the Nextel Cup point standings as a result of his seventh-place finish July 24 at Pocono (Pa.). He is now second in points with 2,733 points, 66 markers behind series leader Jimmie Johnson. At this point last year Stewart was fifth in the standings with 2,606 points, 434 points behind series leader Johnson. Stewart has scored 127 more points this year than he did last year heading into the 21st race of the season.

With a second-place finish June 19 at Michigan, a win June 26 at Sonoma (Calif.), another win July 2 at Daytona (Fla.), a fifth-place effort July 10 at Chicagoland, another win July 17 at New Hampshire, and a seventh-place finish July 24 at Pocono, Stewart advanced from 10th in points to second in just six weeks while picking up a staggering 314 points on series leader Jimmie Johnson. Stewart comes into Indianapolis with an average finish of third in his last six races.

Stewart has won three of the last five races – Sonoma, Daytona and New Hampshire. And with his win July 17 at New Hampshire, Stewart moved into a tie with two-time series champion Terry Labonte for 25th on NASCAR's all-time win list.

Stewart has scored eight top-fives and 12 top-10s in the 20 races run this season.

Of the six races remaining before the Chase for the Championship, Stewart has won at four of those venues – Watkins Glen, N.Y. (8/11/2002 & 8/15/2004), Michigan (6/11/2000), Bristol, Tenn. (8/25/2001) and Richmond, Va. (9/11/1999, 5/5/2001 & 5/4/2002). The only two venues where Stewart has yet to record a victory are at Indianapolis and Fontana (Calif.).

Stewart has raced Nextel Cup cars (6x), Indy cars (5x) and IROC cars (3x) to earn a total of 14 Indianapolis starts.

Stewart has led a total of 236 laps in his 14 Indianapolis starts (11.3 percent of a possible 2,081 laps). One hundred and six laps have been led in a Nextel Cup car to place Stewart sixth in laps led at Indianapolis amongst Nextel Cup drivers, while 122 laps have been led in an Indy car and eight laps have been led in an IROC car.

Stewart's best Nextel Cup finish at Indy is fifth (2004 & 2000), which is also his best Indy Racing League finish at Indy (1997). His best IROC finish at Indy is second (2001). Stewart's average Nextel Cup finish at Indy is 9.7.

Stewart won his sixth career Nextel Cup pole for the 2002 Brickyard 400, and in doing so, became the first driver to have started from the pole and lead the first lap in both the Indianapolis 500 (1996) and the Brickyard 400.

Stewart's average speed for his Indianapolis 500 pole was 233.100 mph, while his Brickyard 400 pole came at an average speed of 182.960 mph – a difference of over 50 mph.

Stewart currently has eight poles to his Nextel Cup resume, with the last one coming at Daytona, four races ago.

Stewart grew up 45 minutes from Indianapolis in the towns of Rushville and Columbus.

Twenty races into 2005, Stewart is second in bonus points earned with a total of 75. Leading all Nextel Cup drivers in bonus points earned is Greg Biffle with 85. Jimmie Johnson and Kurt Busch are tied for third in bonus points earned with 65 bonus points apiece. Ryan Newman is fourth with 60 bonus points while Jeff Gordon is fifth with 50 bonus points. (Bonus points are awarded only for laps led. Five points are given for leading a lap, while another five points are given for leading the most laps.)

Stewart has led the most laps in six races this year – 107 laps in the Daytona 500, 247 laps at Martinsville (Va.), 97 laps at Michigan, 39 laps at Sonoma (Calif.), 151 laps in the Pepsi 400 at Daytona, and 232 laps at New Hampshire. Stewart has led a total of 1,063 laps in the 20 races run this season, the most of any driver. Greg Biffle is second in laps led with 1,012. No other driver has led more than 500 laps.

Home Depot store #8743, located in Merida, Mexico, and store #6577, located in Weslaco, Texas, will be represented on the lower rear quarterpanel of the #20 Home Depot Chevrolet during the Allstate 400 at The Brickyard. Store #8743 and #6577 were judged to be the outstanding stores of the past two weeks, thereby earning their place on the #20 Joe Gibbs Racing machine.

From 6-8 p.m. CDT on Wed., Aug. 3, Stewart and Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR Busch Series driver J.J. Yeley will be appearing at The Home Depot (store #2014) on 3092 North High School Road in Indianapolis.

Stewart will make a return to the NASCAR Busch Series on Sat., Aug. 6 driving the #33 James Dean Chevrolet for Kevin Harvick Inc. (KHI) in the Kroger 200 at Indianapolis Raceway Park. It will be Stewart's ninth race as part of his 11-race Busch Series schedule for 2005, all of which will come with KHI. Stewart has a total of one win, three poles, 11 top-fives and 12 top-10s in 49 Busch Series starts.

• 8 starts for Kevin Harvick in 2005 (1 win – Daytona; 1 pole – California; 2nd at Atlanta; 5th at Phoenix; 15th at Richmond; 3 DNFs – Texas, Talladega and Charlotte)
• 1 start for Richard Childress in 2004 (2nd at Spring California)
• 1 start for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2004 (led a race-high 105 laps at Kansas but crashed while leading last lap – finished 25th)
• 2 starts for Kevin Harvick in 2004 (5th at Spring Charlotte and 11th at Atlanta)
• 1 start for Dale Earnhardt Jr. in 2003 (led a race-high 46 laps at Michigan but finished 11th when rain cut race short)
• 22 starts for Joe Gibbs in 1998 (2 poles – Spring and Fall Rockingham; 5 top-five finishes) 5 starts for Joe Gibbs in 1997 (1 top-five – 3rd at Fall Charlotte; two top-10s – Fall Charlotte and Fall Rockingham)
• 9 starts for Harry Ranier in 1996 (best start and finish were at Spring Bristol, 7th and 16th, respectively)

Sat., Aug. 6 will mark Stewart's third career Busch Series start at Indianapolis Raceway Park, with the last one coming in July of 1998, where Stewart started 20th and finished 12th in a Joe Gibbs Racing-prepared Pontiac.

Car History - Chassis No. 83
This chassis debuted at Pocono in June of 2003, where it went on to score the #20 team's first victory of 2003 and the 16th win of their career. Prior to that, its only track time came during a test at Pocono May 28-29. Chicagoland marked chassis No. 83's second career start, where it won the pole, led three times for 80 laps and finished second. It returned to Pocono for the July race, where by lap 98 it had come from 33rd to first. Chassis No. 83 wound up leading twice for 15 laps before engine failure relegated it to a 37th place finish. Michigan marked its fourth career start, where it finished a solid third, and Kansas marked its fifth career start, where it finished a strong fourth. The 2004 June race at Pocono marked the car's one-year anniversary, its first start of 2004 and sixth overall. After running solidly in the top-10, transmission trouble less than 50 laps from the finish left it six laps down in 27th. It made a surprise appearance at Chicagoland to notch its seventh career start, where it took the track after the team's primary car – Chassis No. 75 – was crashed in practice. It started 10th and led five times for 160 laps – the most of any chassis – to finish first in the relief role. The fall California race marked its eighth career start, where it suffered a reversal of fortune in qualifying 33rd and finishing 18th. Career start number nine came at Kansas, where it qualified 24th and finished only 10 spots better at 14th. Chassis No. 83 had been sitting in the shop for most of this year without a body, but with new Chevrolet sheet metal adorning its flanks, it was chosen as the primary car for Indianapolis. Sunday's race will mark the 10th career start for Chassis No. 83 and its first of 2005.

Year	Event	Start	Finish	Status/Laps	Laps Led	Earnings
2004	Pocono (Spring)	8	27	Running/194	1	$100,393
2004	Chicagoland	10	1	Running/267	160	$336,803
2004	California (Fall)	33	18	Running/250	250	$127,978
2004	Kansas	24	14	Running/267	0	$121,228
2003	Pocono (Spring)	4	1	Running/200	37	$214,253
2003	Chicagoland	1	2	Running/267	80	$213,468
2003	Pocono (Fall)	33	37	Engine/153	15	$105,203
2003	Michigan (Fall)	23	3	Running/200	0	$140,063
2003	Kansas	14	4	Running/267	0	$155,578

The Home Depot in The Indianapolis Community

From 6-8 p.m. CDT on Wed., Aug. 3, Stewart and Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR Busch Series driver J.J. Yeley will be appearing at The Home Depot (store #2014) on 3092 North High School Road in Indianapolis.

• The Home Depot, in partnership with Joe Gibbs Racing and the national non-profit organization KaBOOM!, will have their fourth "Racing to Play" playground build on Thurs., Aug. 4 at The Key Learning Community in Indianapolis. There, Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR Busch Series driver J.J. Yeley, along with Joe Gibbs Racing crew members, will volunteer their time and energy.
• (Please note that Tony Stewart will not be at the Indianapolis build. However, Stewart did participate in the kick-off build in Jackson, Mich., on June 16 at the Jackson Arts & Technology Center. Stewart is also slated to participate in playground builds at the following locations – Aug. 31 at the Pomona (Calif.) YMCA, Sept. 29 at Northside Hal Henderson Elementary School in Talladega, Ala., and Nov. 10 at a site to be chosen in Phoenix.)
• The "Racing to Play" program identifies and works with 10 organizations in select race markets to build NASCAR-themed KaBOOM! playgrounds in a single day at the organization's site. The program targets organizations that serve children, including those that support at-risk youth and provide positive after-school and learning environments. The first three builds were in Jackson, Mich., Daytona Beach, Fla., and Markham, Ill., respectively, while the fifth build is scheduled for Aug. 31 at the Pomona (Calif.) YMCA. Future build sites are Sept. 8 at St. Joseph's Villa in Richmond, Va., and Sept. 29 at Northside Hal Henderson Elementary School in Talladega, Ala. Sites are still being determined for Kansas City, Kan., Atlanta and Phoenix.

On Fri., Aug. 5, Aric Almirola will attempt to make his second career NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series start at Indianapolis Raceway Park in the Power Stroke Diesel 200 driving the #47 Home Depot Chevrolet Silverado for Morgan-Dollar Motorsports. Almirola, a 21-year-old Cuban-American from Tampa, Fla., is part of Joe Gibbs Racing's diversity program, where he competes regularly in the NASCAR Weekly Racing Series Late Model division behind the wheel of his #92 Home Depot Chevrolet. Almirola's first Craftsman Truck Series start came July 23 at Memphis (Tenn.) Motorsports Park.

The Home Depot is NASCAR's Home Improvement Warehouse