by TonyStewart.com

Updated: December 21, 2007, 1:37 AM EST

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NASCAR NEXTEL Cup Series driver Tony Stewart scored the biggest win of his career when he drove his #20 Home Depot Chevrolet to victory lane in the Allstate 400 at the Brickyard on Sunday. While the hometown hero cemented his leadership with his name on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's race trophy, Stewart's sponsor, The Home Depot , put a 10 percent discount on bricks, wall blocks and pavers this weekend at all U.S. The Home Depot stores.

The official home improvement warehouse of NASCAR will take out full-page color ads in today's USA Today, and Friday's Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Charlotte (N.C.) Observer, Indianapolis Star, Evansville (Ind.) Courier, Syracuse (N.Y.) Post-Standard and Rochester (N.Y.) Democrat & Chronicle with a congratulatory note for Stewart and the #20 Home Depot Racing Team. Customers who present a copy of the coupon from the ad will receive a 10 percent discount on bricks, wall blocks and pavers this Thursday through Sunday (Aug. 11-14).

"First it was ladders and fences, and now it's bricks and pavers," said Stewart, alluding to The Home Depot's previous 10 percent discount on ladders and fences that followed his fence-climbing celebratory antics at Daytona (Fla.) and New Hampshire. "I plan to keep winning races and helping to drive down the cost of home improvement for The Home Depot customers."

Paved with 3.2 million bricks in 1909, the 2.5-mile Indianapolis Motor Speedway is best known as the Brickyard. While its surface is now covered with asphalt, a yard of bricks remains at the start/finish line as a testament to the track's famed history.

Stewart dreamed of racing at the Brickyard ever since he wheeled a go-kart at age 7 in Westport, Ind. When that dream was realized in his debut at the Brickyard as an IRL IndyCar Series rookie in 1996, Stewart expanded that dream into winning at the Brickyard.

The 2002 series champion is well on his way toward a second NASCAR title, as four wins in the past seven races have allowed him to climb from 10th to first in the championship point standings.

Founded in 1978, The Home Depot is the world's largest home improvement specialty retailer and the second largest retailer in the United States, with fiscal 2004 sales of $73.1 billion. The company employs approximately 325,000 associates and has 1,942 stores in 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, 10 Canadian provinces and Mexico. The company recently announced the creation of a business development operation for retail expansion into China. The Home Depot has been recognized by Fortune as the No. 1 Most Admired Specialty Retailer for 2005. Its stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE:HD) and is included in the Dow Jones industrial average and Standard & Poor's 500 index. HDG