1999 Exide NASCAR Select Batteries 400

In 1999, Tony Stewart put up incredible numbers for a rookie at NASCAR’s highest level. “Smoke” finished the season with 21 top 10s, 12 top fives and three wins that all came inside of the last 10 weeks of the season

That first win came in the fall at Richmond Raceway. Stewart started the night on the outside pole and for a good part of the night battled Jeff Gordon, who at one point during the race radioed his crew and said “look at him go” after Stewart drove around him.

Rewatch 1999 Richmond race | Full results | See all of Stewart’s wins

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