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For a guy obsessed with racing, Tony Stewart doesn't like driving much. He once said that if he had to drive the length of a Nextel Cup race in a regular car without listening to music or stopping for a Coke, he would "want to commit arson" when he got out of the car.
And it's not just regular driving that bores him. He hates testing his racecar. He drew criticism for blowing off testing before the Daytona 500, a process he described on his team website as "watching paint dry." (When he's testing at Daytona, he's going 190 to 200 mph. That's wicked paint, no?)
You could see how much skipping testing really hurt him when he led the most laps in the ...