Tony Stewart has won the Sprint Cup Series championship.  Stewart captured the title after winning Sunday's Ford 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway.  It is Stewart's third title in NASCAR's top series and first as driver of the number-14 car, previously winning in 2002 and 2005 under Joe Gibbs Racing with the number-20 car.  He beat out Carl Edwards and the number-99 car, who finished second in the race and the points.  Stewart and Edwards actually tied for the points championship, but Stewart won the tiebreaker by having more wins.  Stewart is the first owner-driver to win a Cup title since Alan Kulwicki in 1992.  With five wins, all coming in the Chase, Stewart won the title for the first time since '05, which is the last time Jimmie Johnson didn't win the Cup.

Stewart started the race 15th and was back and forth in the field, falling as low as 40th after enduring damage to his front grill.  He drove the 14-car to the front with 37 laps to go and held off a charge from Edwards, who led the most laps with 119.  Both the 14 and 99 cars weaved through lapped traffic in the final laps, with Edwards closing to within a second of Stewart, but Tony was able comeback to win the race and the title.  Martin Truex [[ TRUE-ex ]] Junior finished third followed by Matt Kenseth and Jeff Gordon.