SONOMA, Calif. — Tony Stewart has heard all his critics — the chirping, as he calls it.
He’s heard the tweeters and the talkers who have written him off, who have declared him washed up and his career all but over after the trials and tribulations he has faced the past three years.
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He heard it and, as much as he tried to block it out and ignore it, he admits that it irked him. That it motivated him to bounce back and prove them wrong.