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Spin the Black Circle: Previewing Chicago

By Christopher Harris
ESPN.com

Friday, July 11, 2008

Tony Stewart could be in for a long ride in '09. For the uninitiated, the second major shoe in Silly Season 2008 dropped this week (Mark Martin taking over for Casey Mears at Hendrick was the first), as Stewart announced he'd leave Gibbs a year early to take a half-ownership stake in Haas-CNC, to be renamed Stewart-Haas. Smoke will finish out '08 in the No. 20 and then jump ship without his longtime crew chief, Greg Zipadelli, or any of his current staff, and essentially build a new race team f ...

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