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" Last time Tony Stewart won a NASCAR race, his Stewart-Haas Racing was just a two-and-a-half car team of him, Ryan Newman and Danica Patrick, who ran just ten races that season. The program has since evolved into a four-car juggernaut, moving Patrick to full-time while dropping Ryan Newman for Kurt Busch and adding a fourth car for Kevin Harvick, who won his first career championship with the team in 2014. He missed races repeatedly in the time that followed, taking off half of 2013 after breaking his leg in a sprint car accident, the first third of this season after a back injury sustained over the offseason, and three races in 2014 after the death of Kevin Ward, Jr. He struggled in the races he did run, recording just three top tens all of last season. He finally decided he would retire going into this season, and even after his injury left him out of what would have been his final\u00A0Daytona 500, stressed that he had little to no interest in a return afterward. These past few weeks, however, he&amp;#039;s looked like his old self. A strong run in Michigan last weekend ended in a top five, and this weekend he took that strength to a Sonoma track he&amp;#039;s won at twice before certain he&amp;#039;d have a good run. What followed was a race to remember. On the final restart, Stewart found himself leading Martin Truex, Jr and Denny Hamlin, two drivers that had led throughout the day. He held off initial pressure from Truex and built a respectable lead over the first ten laps, but by that point Hamlin had moved into second, where he had no interest in staying.         On the last lap, Hamlin was finally close enough to make his move. He pushed Stewart out of the way into turn 7A, and for the first time since the race&amp;#039;s final restart, had a share of the race lead. In turn 11, however, he drifted out wide, and Stewart capitalized on what he knew was his final opportunity to win this race, maybe his last best\u00A0chance to win a Cup race. He pushed Hamlin out of the corner from the inside, moving\u00A0into the lead, and with his tires still smoking from the contact, took his first win in years. The victory moves him just nine\u00A0points out of 30th in the championship, all he needs to become Chase eligible and make his first postseason appearance since 2012. This creates a decent amount of drama on the Chase bubble, where the line to make the championship hunt on points has presumably moved down one position. That means the good news for Stewart is decidedly bad news for Austin Dillon, Jamie McMurray, Kasey Kahne, Ryan Blaney, AJ Allmendinger, Trevor Bayne and Kyle Larson, all of whom suddenly find themselves in a close fight for one fewer position. That window can only get smaller next weekend, when the series returns to the ever-unpredictable superspeedway at Daytona.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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