Stewart Snaps 84-race Winless Streak

Tony "Smoke" Stewart sometimes is at his best when he's frustrated. Just two days after he said racing Sprint Cup cars didn't make him happy, Stewart snapped an 84-race winless streak and turned his final NASCAR season into a potential championship run as he made a last-turn pass on Denny Hamlin to capture the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma Raceway.

Stewart was in position to win when he pitted 25 laps before the finish and the caution came out one lap later. Everyone else on the lead lap pitted, and Stewart took the lead with 22 laps remaining. He held on to it nearly the rest of the way before Hamlin bumped him in Turn 7 to pass him on the last lap. Hamlin took the final turn wide, and Stewart was able to get underneath Hamlin to make the pass and win the race.

"They're all good. It doesn't matter where you get them," Stewart said about his 49th career Sprint Cup win. "But we ran close to those guys all day. We just got stuck back in traffic [before the pit stop]."

Hamlin stuck his head into Stewart's car after the race to congratulate him. They were teammates for several years at Joe Gibbs Racing before Stewart became a co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing in 2009.

"I felt a nudge when I got down there [in Turn 7], and he knew where it was, and he did the right thing doing it there," Stewart said. "But if I could get to him, he knew what was coming. He told me he was proud of me. He knows what it means. We were teammates for a long time, and we respect each other a lot." -- By ESPN