Max Papis will serve as the interim driver for Stewart at Watkins Glen road course race Sunday. It is also worth noting that Kyle Larson, was also in the sprint cars race in Iowa.
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Excerpt: Stewart was leading the 30-lap race when he crashed into a lapped car.
So why was Tony Stewart racing, of all things, 360 sprint cars -- those are sprinters with 360-cubic-inch engines, a major step down from the World of Outlaws-like 410 sprints -- on a Monday night in Oskaloosa, Iowa? Tony Stewart, whose career earnings from purse money alone is close to $120 million?
If you have to ask why Tony Stewart was racing sprint cars, which he planned on doing maybe 60 days this year, you don't know him very well. No current racer in NASCAR gives back more to the grassroots form of motorsports that made him what he is today.
What he told the Des Moines Register sums up the addiction that is sprint car racing, even after three sprint car drivers, including fellow NASCAR competitor Jason Leffler, died in the past two months, the latest being Pennsylvania's Kramer Williamson on Sunday.
That's the risk I know Stewart's willing to take because he enjoys sprint car racing and a lot of people don't understand why he would do such a thing, but I do,” Brown told the newspaper. “Almost every single person in this pit area loves sprint car racing and will literally mortgage their house and everything they've got to go do it. I know right now it's kind of getting a bad rap, because people are dying and getting injured really bad. But at the same time, we all know that's the risk.”
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According to AutoWeek, Stewart could miss one Cup race.