From the beginning of his career 25 years ago, Tony Stewart has proved to be a champion every step of the way. The Columbus, IN, native has scored a total of ten driving championships since he first wheeled a go-cart at a Westport, IN, racetrack in 1978.

Stewart scored his first USAC championship in 1994 by winning five times in 22 starts in the National Midget category. It was a prelude to even bigger things, as 1995 was the year Stewart made USAC history by winning the Triple Crown. He won the National Midget, Sprint and Silver Crown titles all in the same year, a feat never accomplished by anyone before Stewart. That success led to Stewart earning a ride in the fledgling IRL. After earning the Rookie of the Year award in 1996, Stewart won the series championship the following year.

In 2004, Stewart and his No. 20 Home Depot Team would represent Joe Gibbs Racing in the Chase for the Nextel Cup and would finish the season with a sixth place showing in the final point standings. In 2005, Stewart earned his second Nextel Cup Championship with five wins, three poles, 15 top fives and 21 top tens. He also fulfilled a life-long dream in 2005 by winning the Brickyard 400 at IRP, his home track. His 2006 season started strong, but a series of bad luck on the track caused him to finish just outside of the Chase for the Cup. Stewart didn't let that break his spirit, going on to finish the season with five wins and finishing 11th for the year.

In 2007, with three wins in Nextel Cup point races, Stewart rolled into a 6th place finish in the NASCAR Nextel Cup Series point standings. He won his seventh USAC championship as a car owner with driver Levi Jones, who took the USAC Sprint car championship on November 10^th, 2007.

In addition to his on-track performance, Stewart continues to be devoted to philanthropy. Stewart remains very involved with the Victory Junction Gang Camp as well as the Tony Stewart FoundationYou are exiting the www.armorall.com website. The Clorox® Company is not responsible for the content or data collection of that independent site..

From his earliest days as a child, tagging along with his dad to race Late Model stock cars at short tracks in and around his native Vermont, Rogers always wanted nothing more than to work in the racing business.

When he was finished with high school, Rogers actually heeded a piece of advice from his dad and went to Clarkson University in Potsdam, N.Y., to pursue a mechanical engineering degree.

With a mechanical engineering degree in hand in 1996, Rogers took a look at job opportunities in the "real world" his father envisioned. But none of the opportunities that presented themselves looked like much fun to Rogers, so he again took a long, hard look at how he could find his way into big-time auto racing.

"The job offers I did have were with big corporate America type companies, and that's not what I wanted to commit my life to at all," Rogers said. "That's when I got serious about racing, and I learned about GMI (the General Motors Institute in Flint, Mich.), which is known as Kettering U., and I fell in love with their vehicle dynamics program. There was a professor there named Dr. Tuttle, and I let him know what I wanted to do. He gave me an assistantship to teach manufacturing processes. In return, I got a graduate education in mechanical engineering. I studied vehicle dynamics, and I got my masters in 1998."

In 1999, Rogers was taken under the wing of Greg Zipadelli, crew chief of the No. 20 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series team and driver Tony Stewart, who went on to capture a pair of Sprint Cup titles over the next six seasons. It was the defining moment for Rogers, who worked side by side with Zipadelli until 2005.

Rogers, born March 12, 1974, lives with his wife, Tracey, and sons David and Matthew in Huntersville, N.C. In their off time, they enjoy slow cruises on the water in their pontoon boat.