It has been an incredible run for Tony Stewart, who has risen from the ranks of a competitive afterthought to the driver to beat in the Chase for the Championship.
Two victories in two weeks has much to do with that.
"It's huge," Stewart said after winning in Loudon, N.H., on Sunday after Clint Bowyer ran out of gas on the final lap. "When you talk about momentum, that race car doesn't know anything about momentum. It knows what you put in it, it knows how we drive it. … It doesn't know anything other than just what's put in it.
"Momentum deals with people. It's not just these first two races of the Chase, it was the two weeks leading before it too. We haven't finished outside the top seven now in the last four weeks. That's huge for us."
No question Stewart is living large these days and could be heading to his third Cup title and first since 2005.