Twice a year, the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series drivers turn left and right – at Sonoma Raceway and Watkins Glen International. And in those two races, Jeff Gordon and Tony Stewart are no-doubt-about-it threats to win.

Gordon wears the road-course crown as the series’ all-time winner in this style of racing. He has a series-high five wins at Sonoma, the last coming in 2006. Since then, he has done just about everything but win, scoring top-10 finishes in each of the last eight races – the longest streak in the series at Sonoma.

Last year, he finished second to Martin Truex Jr.

Stewart has two wins at Sonoma, the last coming in 2005. He, too, has been strong since that win nearly a decade ago, finishing in the top 10 in five of the last seven races.

He’s also had a string of solid starts recently. Stewart finished seventh in Dover, and followed that up with a performance at Pocono that could’ve ended in victory – if not for a pit road speeding penalty that Stewart labeled as a “driver error.”