2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart to Present Annual 'Stewie Awards' Live on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Dec. 1

2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion Tony Stewart to Present Annual 'Stewie Awards' Live on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio Dec. 1

Three-time champion and his co-host, Matt Yocum, will host from Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas

Annual highlight of NASCAR Champions Week honors the best, boldest and funniest moments from the NASCAR season

NEW YORK, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Sirius XM Radio (NASDAQ: SIRI) announced today that 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Champion Tony Stewart will host the fifth annual 'Stewie Awards' show on Thursday, December 1, live from Las Vegas on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio.

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The 'Stewies,' which features Stewart's entertaining and irreverent take on the best, boldest and funniest moments from the 2011 NASCAR season, will be awarded during a live broadcast hosted by Stewart and Matt Yocum from Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas on Thursday, December 1 (9:30 pm ET / 6:30 pm PT). The live broadcast will air nationwide on SiriusXM NASCAR Radio, channel 90 on Sirius and XM Premier (formerly known as "The Best of Sirius"). The broadcast will be open to the public for fans in Las Vegas.

Stewart won his third NASCAR Sprint Cup Series title after a remarkable postseason run that saw him win five of the 10 races in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. His down-to-the-wire battle with Carl Edwards created one of the most exciting finishes in NASCAR history, as Stewart overcame early-race troubles and held off Edwards to win the season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway and claim the crown. In just his third year as a driver/owner with Stewart-Haas Racing, Stewart becomes the first driver/owner to win a championship since Alan Kulwicki did it in 1992. He was the last driver to win the championship before Jimmie Johnson went on his historic five year title run.

The 'Stewie Awards' event will feature live interviews with several of Stewart's competitiors in this year's Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, plus other special guests.

"Hosting the 'Stewies' is always one of the highlights of Champions Week for me and this year's show will be incredibly special," said Stewart. "This has been an amazing season for me and the team and it'll be great to share the excitement of Champions Week with the fans in Las Vegas and those listening around the country on SiriusXM."

Fans can vote for the 'Stewie Award' winners online at www.siriusxm.com/stewieawards.

The 2011 'Stewies' nominees are:

Best Original Drama - For the year's most dramatic moment or sequence.

-- Tony Stewart overcomes pit road issues, debris damage, a lengthy red
flag and down-to-the-wire challenge from Carl Edwards to win season
finale Ford 400 at Homestead. Smoke has to climb his way to the front
of the field twice and he and Edwards trade lead several times. The 1-2
finish leaves them tied in points but tie-breaker, and championship,
goes to Stewart.
-- Dale Earnhardt Jr. fans thought his 104-race winless drought was over,
but on final turn of green-white-checker finish, Junior runs out of gas
and Kevin Harvick wins Coca-Cola 600 at Charlotte.
-- Kyle Busch wins 18 combined series races and passes Mark Martin on
all-time NASCAR Nationwide Series win list, yet makes headlines for a
series of "less attractive" reasons.
-- Brad Keselowski drives to victory in the Good Sam RV Insurance 500 at
Pocono with a broken ankle. During a red flag for rain, Kez had fluid
drained from his ankle, which had swollen to the size of a softball.
-- Clint Bowyer and Kevin Harvick battle Jeff Gordon and Mark Martin to end
of Aaron's 499 at Talladega only to be bested by Jimmie Johnson, who
tied a record for slimmest margin of victory at .002 secs thanks to a
late push by Dale Earnhardt Jr.
Bonehead Move of the Year Award

-- JJ Yeley pushes Matt Kenseth when #17 runs out of gas at Geico 400 at
Chicagoland but, since it is illegal to receive assistance on final lap,
Kenseth is dropped from 8(th) to 21(st) place finish.
-- Perhaps unaware of in-car cameras, Chad Knaus is heard telling Jimmie
Johnson before Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega, "If we win this race, you
have to crack the back end of the car."
-- Kyle Busch's win at the Quaker State 400, NASCAR's inaugural Sprint Cup
Series race at Kentucky, gets overshadowed by reports of 15-mile traffic
jams on I-71.
-- Carl Edwards destroys his car's front end during post-race celebration
after winning $1 million NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Charlotte.
-- Leading the Daytona 500 with two laps to go, David Ragan changes lanes
before reaching start/finish line during a restart and is black-flagged
to end of lead lap. He finishes 14(th).

"Feels Like The First Time" Award - For the most notable "first" of the NASCAR season.

-- Australian champion Marcos Ambrose gets his first NASCAR Sprint Cup
Series win in Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen.
-- Coming from a family with deep racing roots, Paul Menard becomes first
in his family to kiss bricks at Indy after getting his first win in
Brickyard 400.
-- Avoiding a wreck-fest in the Coke Zero 400 at Daytona, David Ragan
redeems himself from five months earlier (Daytona) by getting his first
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series win.
-- After 105 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series attempts, Regan Smith finds Victory
Lane in the Showtime Southern 500 at Darlington while driving for a
single car team.
-- On the day after his 20(th) birthday, Trevor Bayne wins Daytona 500 in
his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series start.
Best Vocal Performance - For the year's most memorable quote. (Visit www.siriusxm.com/stewieawards to hear audio of nominees.)

-- Pastor Joe Nelms of Family Baptist Church in Lebanon, TN, channels his
inner "Ricky Bobby" during the pre-race invocation for the Federated
Auto Parts 300 at Nashville.
-- After winning the IRWIN Tools Night Race at Bristol, Brad Keselowski
celebrates in Victory Lane with help from his sponsor.
-- After some "you dumped me, so I'll dump you" talk between Brian Vickers
and Tony Stewart in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 at Sonoma, Smoke waxes
poetic with the media about being blocked.
-- Kenny Wallace delivers a memorable command to fire engines in the UNOH
225 NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race at Kentucky.
-- Clint Bowyer once exclaimed during a 2008 race that, "Michael Waltrip is
the worst driver in NASCAR, period." Skip ahead to this year, at press
conference announcing Bowyer as the newest driver at Michael Waltrip
Racing, the two discuss Waltrip's driving prowess.
Best "Driver2Crew Chatter" - (Visit www.siriusxm.com/stewieawards to hear audio of nominees.)

-- Greg Biffle and then crew chief Greg Erwin discuss their "winning plan"
during Coca-Cola 600.
-- Kurt Busch expresses his "displeasure" with how things are progressing
in the Matthew & Daniel Hansen 400 at Richmond.
-- In the Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas, Chad Knaus and Jimmie Johnson pay
their "respects" to one of the year's biggest success stories.
-- Comedian Larry the Cable Guy, honorary pace car driver for the Coca-Cola
600 at Charlotte, details the biggest challenge of driving at NASCAR's
highest level.
-- The #88 crew helps Dale Earnhardt Jr. mark his pit stall in the STP 400
at Kansas.
Best Original Comedy - For the year's most entertaining "incident."

-- Battling teammate Carl Edwards, Ricky Stenhouse Jr. blows an engine on
last lap of US Cellular 250 at Iowa. The combination of oil on the
track and blinding smoke on Edwards' windshield causes Carl to slam into
Stenhouse and push him to win.
-- Thinking Greg Biffle was racing dirty in the Heluva Good! Sour Cream
Dips at the Glen, Boris Said requests a "meeting" with "The Biff" after
the race. In the ensuing encounter, Biffle takes a swing at Said and
Said answers back with verbal TKO.
-- When Kyle Busch pits during the Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville,
crew chief Dave Rogers reminds team to "tighten the lugs," but as Kyle
pulls away his front left wheel detaches and rolls down the track.
-- On the final green-white-checker attempt, Justin Allgaier begins
thanking his team for win at Bucyrus 200 at Road America but runs out of
fuel and fails to maintain caution speed. Ron Fellows and Reed Sorenson
advance, but after Fellows also fails to maintain caution speed,
Sorenson is declared winner.
-- With three regular season races remaining, Tony Stewart questions his
team's "Chase" abilities during a post-race ESPN interview at Michigan.
Smoke goes on to win five postseason races and win his third NASCAR
Sprint Cup Series Championship.
Hal Needham Award (Best Stunt Sequence) - For the year's most remarkable crash.

-- At Aaron's 312 at Talladega, Mike Wallace hits Jason Leffler and goes
airborne, flipping completely over before landing back on his wheels.
Wallace finishes the race in 18th place.
-- In Goody's Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville, Martin Truex Jr.'s throttle
sticks entering Turn 3 causing him to crash into the SAFER barrier at
high speed. Grateful for NASCAR's safety improvements Truex says
afterward, "Ten years ago I wouldn't be here."
-- Battling Carl Edwards during the 5-Hour Energy 200 at Dover, Joey Logano
gets loose, bounces off wall and collects Clint Bowyer, who flips on his
side as both cars are destroyed and several other cars get caught in the
mess. The drivers are uninjured.
-- At the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen, David Ragan hits wall
at 100 mph. Ragan then hits David Reutimann who cartwheels into Turn 2
fence. Everyone emerges safely.
-- At the Heluva Good! Sour Cream Dips at the Glen, Denny Hamlin hits the
tire wall at 76 mph. Hamlin emerges from his car under his own power -
sore, but safe.
'Boys, Have At It" Award - For the year's most memorable on- or off-track bumping and/or dumping.

-- Nearing the checkered flag in the Good Sam Club 500 at Talladega, Jeff
Gordon gets dumped by his tandem draft partner, Trevor Bayne, for
another Ford driver. Gordon goes from being a contender to win to
finishing 27(th), 12 spots behind Bayne.
-- After multiple incidents, Ryan Newman and Juan Pablo Montoya visit the
NASCAR hauler. It is rumored Newman throws a punch during the meeting
but "Rocket Man" will only say, "What happens in the trailer stays in
the trailer."
-- Steve Wallace spins Patrick Carpentier during NAPA Auto Parts 200 at
Montreal to prematurely end the final race of Carpentier's career.
Carpentier's crew chief, Jerry Baxter, reaches into car to pull
Wallace's hair. Wallace states later, "Only girls pull hair."
-- After an on-track battle at the Showtime Southern 500 at Darlington,
Kevin Harvick throws a punch at Kyle Busch on pit road. Busch rams
Harvick's car into pit road wall and fight breaks out between the two
race teams.
-- Robby Gordon gets put on indefinite NASCAR suspension after an incident
with Kevin Conway in the Las Vegas garage. Few people witness the
altercation but the two drivers have an unpleasant history following
their 2010 partnership.
The Social Stewie Award - For the year's best social media quote.

-- Jimmie Johnson pleads with "NASCAR Nation" via Twitter. @jimmiejohnson:
"I'm amazed how many of you admit to owning a shake weight. Please stop
buying them so it goes away. #publicservice."
-- Kevin Harvick weighs in via Twitter about Ron Hornaday being dumped.
@kevinharvick: "Great night for the 2 truck!! Just watched the race
replay and saw what I already knew @kylebusch is a b****..."
-- Comedian Jim Gaffigan opines via Twitter about "horse power."
@jimgaffigan: "Horse racing is just NASCAR for gamblers, right?"
-- Would-be-father Scott Speed via Twitter. @scottspeed: "At the obgyn to
find out if @Amanda_Speed has bad eggs or if my swimmers are just
turning left n going in circles lol"
-- Matt Kenseth via Twitter after his wife's "Better Half Dash" practice
injury. @matt_kenseth17: "Katie is feeling pretty good today, and I got
to learn something new...how to put a bra ON!"
Golden Stewie Award - Chosen by Stewart and Yocum and honoring a legendary figure from the Golden Era of racing, the winner of this award will be revealed the night of the event.

"Stewie" Lifetime Achievement Award - Chosen by Stewart and Yocum, the winner of this award will be revealed the night of the event.

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