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Two-time Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart has set his NASCAR future, and it’s as an owner and driver with Stewart-Haas Racing beginning in 2009.

Stewart-Haas Racing is the new partnership between Stewart and Haas CNC Racing, with the revamped entity slated to run two cars full-time in the Sprint Cup Series.

Haas CNC Racing operates out of a 140,000-square foot shop in Concord, N.C., and is owned by Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation Inc.

The company has been involved with motorsports since 1995 through various technical partnerships with teams in the IRL IndyCar Series and NASCAR, including Hendrick Motorsports, which will continue to provide chassis, engines and technical support to Stewart-Haas Racing.

News regarding sponsors of Stewart-Haas Racing, as well as the complete driver lineup and corresponding car numbers for the two-car team, will be announced at a later date.

Information is from a TrueSpeed PR and is courtesy of www.Jayski.com.

Well, with the official announcement that Tony Stewart is leaving Joe Gibbs Racing at the end of 2008, it’s kind of like a valve has been released, and all the silly season pressure is all now running out.

But there’s still a lot of answers not known yet. Tony will have a live press conference on SPEED at 2:30 PM eastern time, which will fill in some of those missing answers.

We’ll do our best to have it summarized right here for you as soon as we can. But in the meantime, there’s LOTS going on in NASCAR-land in the stock car racing world, so check it out here with today’s edition of the Stock Car Gazette…

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