NASCAR Johnson wants a win, Stewart needs a win

Both of them have had success at the site of Sunday's race.
DOVER, Del. (AP) -- Tony Stewart and Jimmie Johnson are happy to be at Dover International Speedway, where they figure to be among the drivers to beat Sunday.
A victory by Johnson would be a luxury. For Stewart, it's a case of win or come close in the MBNA 400 if there is to be any chance for him to repeat as Winston Cup champion.
"Every team looks at the calendar and hopes that the tracks they ran well at previously will be the same ones that they can be contenders on again," said Johnson, victorious the last two weeks and a winner twice last year at Dover. "We knew that Lowe's Motor Speedway was one of those tracks. With the success we've had at Dover, we have that same mind-set."
Johnson could join teammate and car owner Jeff Gordon, David Pearson and Rusty Wallace and as the only drivers to win three straight races on The Monster Mile.
"It's cool having your name in the record books," Johnson said. "Winston Cup racing is so competitive now that it's really hard to imagine having the opportunity to be included with them."
Last Sunday night, Johnson became the fifth driver in the same year to win both the non-points NASCAR all-star race and Winston Cup's Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's.
A disaster
While Johnson was busy celebrating, Stewart and his team were trying to figure out what went wrong this time. Defense of his first NASCAR title has been a disaster for Stewart, who dominated the first part of the Coca-Cola 600 until a sick engine relegated him to a 40th-place finish.
"We're coming up on a string of tracks where we run well," said Stewart, who swept Dover's races in 2000. "If we're going to make any kind of run back into the top 10 in points, then this is the time."
Accidents and mechanical failures have been the norm for Stewart this season. It's been so bad, that he has lost 512 points in the last seven races despite leading 179 laps. He once was as high as second in the series standings, but is now 20th, 569 points behind leader Matt Kenseth after 12 of 36 races.
"We don't have time to wait any longer," Stewart said. "We just need to get everything we can get for the rest of the year."