In hindsight, 2002 might have been an omen of how heartbreaking the Daytona 500 would be for Tony Stewart. An engine failure just two laps into the race had Stewart almost back home in North Carolina before the checkered flag fell. Two years later, he ran second to winner Dale Earnhardt Jr. He was a contender in 2007, only to wreck out of the race in an incident with Kurt Busch. The following year, he was leading down the backstretch on the final lap when Busch's push of teammate Ryan Newman helped Newman snatch the win.
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