When the rain held off and The Glen heated up, Smoke was in his element.

Tony Stewart
won the rain-delayed NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Watkins Glen
International on a steamy Monday, muscling an ill-handling car in the
early going and then holding off Australian Marcos Ambrose< a> over the final 25 laps for his Cup-record fifth victory at the famed road course.

Stewart has finished first or second in eight of
the past 11 Cup road races, but had to keep the hard-charging Ambrose
at bay. Ambrose won the Nationwide race here Saturday with a daring
move that surprised Kyle Busch for the lead and finished third a year ago in the Cup race after starting last.       

"I was watching him (Ambrose)," Stewart said. "I think we were stronger
in the parts we needed to be and we never looked at the fuel."