Home crowd favourite Tony Stewart roared to his second Nextel Cup victory at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway following a dramatic late race duel with Kevin Harvick.
Stewart and Harvick had the 250,000 strong Brickyard crowd on their collective feet for the final 20 laps of Sunday's 160-lap Allstate 400 at the Brickyard with 2003 Brickyard winner Harvick taking the lead shortly after the final restart of the day on lap 140 to trigger a neck and neck battle that lasted fully ten tours of the famous 2.5-mile quad oval.
Time and time again Stewart's #20 Joe Gibbs Racing Chevrolet would draw alongside Harvick's #29 Richard Childress Racing example as they raced down the back straight towards turn three but every time Harvick would hang tough on the high line and maintain his position even though Stewart's car had been the strongest for much of the day.
Having led by as much as five seconds during the only really long green flag run of what was a crash-strewned race between laps 97 and 123 many were expecting Stewart to make quick work of Harvick but Harvick was having none of it until Stewart dove to the inside going into turn one on lap 150.
Light contact between the two was made as they raced off the corner with Harvick trying to switch back underneath Stewart resulting in more contact as they came off turn two. However once Stewart had the nose of his Home Depot Chevrolet ahead there was no stopping him and he proceeded to cruise away in the lead as Harvick began to struggle with the handling of his car.
Stewart duly took the chequered flag with several seconds to spare and was joined by his entire crew in his now traditional post race fence climb, much to the delight of the main grandstand. The winning car, the same chassis that Stewart used to win last time out in Chicagoland has now led the most laps in both of the two races it has contested.
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