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THE CHAMPION'S CHAMPION.(News)(Tony Stewart and J.J. Yeley)
Byline: CURT CAVIN
From midgets to sprints, J.J. Yeley dominated USAC racing
Tony Stewart knows a thing or two about having a spectacular season. Seven years before winning his NASCAR Winston Cup championship in 2002, a mighty accomplishment in its own right, Stewart completed the daunting endurance test of winning all three of the United States Auto Club's national titles (midgets, sprints and Silver Crown divisions) in the same season. That was 1995, and only Pancho Carter had pulled off a similar feat. Carter was among the best to drive a sprint car, and won each of the titles, but never in the same season.
So Stewart was asked to compare 1995 with the season J.J. Yeley delivered this past year (only the second natural triple crown in USAC history). Stewart didn't hesitate with his response. He said Yeley smoked him.
"I won seven sprint car races the year I won the triple crown; he won [13],'' Stewart said of his new NASCAR teammate at Joe Gibbs Rac-ing. "I didn't even win a Silver Crown race. I would definitely say he had a better year.''
Yeley finished with 24 wins in all, breaking the record jointly held by A.J. Foyt (1961), Sleepy Tripp (1988) and Jay Drake (2000) by five wins. The 13 sprint car wins was a record, too. Yeley's overall winning percentage in the three divisions was 34.2 percent (24 of 70) compared to Stewart's 22.0 percent (13 of 59).
Yeley didn't just win the titles, he ran away with them. His sprint car championship was essentially clinched at midseason. He won four of the 12 Silver Crown races to turn that title chase into a yawner, too. And he wrapped up the midget title before the season-ending Turkey Night Grand Prix.
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Source: HighBeam Research, THE CHAMPION'S CHAMPION.(News)(Tony Stewart and J.J. Yeley)