{"id":296689,"date":"2025-11-21T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296689\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T02:30:07","slug":"mike-joy-names-iconic-carl-edwards-tony-stewart-wins-among-his-favorite-nascar-races","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/296689\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Joy names iconic Carl Edwards, Tony Stewart wins among his favorite NASCAR races"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mike Joy loved watching Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart earn memorable wins while they were competing in the NASCAR Cup Series. Earlier this year, the longtime NASCAR announcer appeared on Kevin Harvick\u2019s Happy Hour<\/a> and spoke to Kevin Harvick about his favorite NASCAR races.<\/p>\n

\u201cCarl Edwards getting his first win in Atlanta, and the way he did it, the way he had to commit and ride the wall and beat Jimmie [Johnson],\u201d Mike Joy said. \u201cTony Stewart against Denny Hamlin at Sonoma, which I think was Tony\u2019s final win. That was unbelievable.\u201d<\/p>\n

Joy then talked about one big thing he likes about calling races. \u201cPeople don\u2019t understand that we\u2019re not cheering for one driver,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re always pulling for the second-place driver to catch the runaway first-place driver to make a race out of it. Doesn\u2019t matter who\u2019s where, we\u2019re racing for what position. We\u2019re race fans, and that\u2019s what we want to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

More on Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart<\/p>\n

Carl Edwards\u2019 first NASCAR Cup Series race win came at the Golden Corral 500 at Atlanta in 2005. He would go on to win 27 more races, including the 2015 Coca-Cola 600 and 2015 Southern 500. Edwards came close to winning the 2011 Cup Series title, but lost to Tony Stewart via a tiebreaker. Edwards was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame this year.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThe most surprising thing is the realization that I can\u2019t separate my life from this sport,\u201d Edwards said during a teleconference in February, per NASCAR.com<\/a>. \u201cAnd I did. I walked away eight years ago. I turned my back, and I walked out of the room, and it was scary. And over the last eight years, I felt odd about that. But for NASCAR to welcome me back, it\u2019s made me realize that this sport, it\u2019s a part of me. It\u2019s who I am. It\u2019s a part of my family. My life is shaped by this, and I think NASCAR knew that more than I did.<\/p>\n

Stewart is a three-time NASCAR Cup Series champion and has won 49 Cup Series races in 618 starts. He also had success in IndyCar, winning the IndyCar Series Championship in 1997. Stewart was inducted into the NASCAR Hall of Fame in 2020 and is also a member of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Hall of Fame and the Motorsports Hall of Fame. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mike Joy loved watching Carl Edwards and Tony Stewart earn memorable wins while they were competing in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":296690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,64734,133543,634,82,66148],"class_list":{"0":"post-296689","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-carl-edwards","11":"tag-mike-joy","12":"tag-nascar","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-tony-stewart"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/296690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}