After a rare week off from racing, the Sprint Cup Series is headed to the West Coast for another anomaly — a road-course race at Sonoma.
Sunday's race at the 10-turn, 1.99-mile road course also features an elevation change and narrow straightaways, making driving it a difficult task to master. Likely to turn into a fuel-mileage, pit-strategy race, Sunday's contest could be the best shot Tony Stewart has at capturing an all-important win as he looks to make the Chase in his final NASCAR season.
Stewart will have his work cut out for him with road-course kings AJ Allmendinger, Kurt Busch and Jimmie Johnson vying to take the checkered flag in the 218.