NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Report
STEWART-HAAS RACING
NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race Report
Date: May 21, 2011
Event: NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race (non-points event)
Series: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Location: Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway (1.5-mile oval)
Winner: Carl Edwards of Roush Fenway Racing (Ford)
SHR Finish: Tony Stewart (Started 6th, Finished 4th / Running, completed 100 of 100 laps)
Ryan Newman (Started 10th, Finished 10th / Running, completed 100 of 100 laps)
Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Burger King Chevrolet Impala, led the two-car Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) contingent by finishing fourth in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte (N.C.) Motor Speedway. It was Stewart’s fifth consecutive-top five finish in the non-points event and his ninth top-10 result in 13 career All-Star Races.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala for SHR, finished 10th to score his seventh top-15 finish in 10 career All-Star Races.
Carl Edwards won the All-Star Race. It was his first All-Star Race win and his first Sprint Cup victory at Charlotte.
Kyle Busch finished .443 of a second behind Edwards in the runner-up spot, while David Reutimann, Stewart and Greg Biffle rounded out the top-five. Matt Kenseth, Denny Hamlin, David Ragan, Kevin Harvick and Newman comprised the remainder of the top-10.
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series returns to point-paying racing on May 29 with the Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte. The longest race on the Sprint Cup schedule gets underway at 6 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by FOX beginning at 5:30 p.m.
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