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With Stewart’s wins at The Glen — his fourth win at the track and his 32nd career victory in 306 starts — the No. 20 has won three of the last four races.

For the two-time Cup champ, Sunday’s win was anything but a cakewalk. Stewart had a strong car, but Jeff Gordon had both track and pit position after qualifying was rained out Friday. Gordon dominated the event. He led three times for 51, laps but with Stewart applying pressure in the closing circuits, Gordon spun in Turn 1 two laps before the finish.

“Basically, it was the same thing that I got it in Turn 1,” Stewart said who also spun out from the point in the same place halfway through the race — but dropped to 19th. “It was both of ours to lose today. Jeff and I by far had the best two cars. I just made a mistake and wheel-hopped it, was the biggest thing. We just had to keep fighting back, it was a hard job fightin’ back through there.

“We just had to keep the pressure on Jeff and hope he made a mistake and that is what happened.”

With the advantages afforded points leader Gordon, he humbly admitted there were no excuses for his faux pas entering Turn 1, simply driver error.