Edwards, the defending race winner of the Sept. 4 Bojangles' Southern 500 at the South Carolina track, will pilot an ARRIS-sponsored Camry in the company's familiar orange and white colors. The arrangement and typefaces, however, will resemble the paint scheme from Stewart's rookie season in 1999, which Home Depot was a primary sponsor.
Joe Gibbs Racing, celebrating its 25th anniversary season in NASCAR, unveiled the paint scheme during a Facebook Live broadcast.
For Dave Rogers, Edwards' crew chief, the look rekindled plenty of remembrances from his earliest years with the Gibbs organization.
"That's bad to the bone," Rogers said during the team's broadcast reveal. "That brings back a lot of good memories. Tony Stewart's rookie year, starting with Greg Zipadelli as a crew chief, I was an engineer on the team. That goes back to my early days at Joe Gibbs Racing. I started in '98; that's 1999. That car looks beautiful. It's gotta be fast if it looks that good."
Stewart scored 33 of his 49 career victories in NASCAR's premier series while with the Gibbs organization. Before leaving JGR in 2009 to form Stewart-Haas Racing, Stewart also notched two of his three championships, carrying the Gibbs banner for his titles in 2002 and 2005.
Edwards notched his first Darlington Raceway victory last season. Stewart will seek his first in his last trip to the historic 1.366-mile track.
NASCAR Release.
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