I mean, I’m excited about it but at the same time, I’m sad about it as well. “It’s kind of a bittersweet day”.
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“We just need to execute as a team”, Busch said.
Stewart said that the transition year would see Bowyer integrated into the team “to ensure that when Clint Bowyer takes over the #14 in 2017, he has everything he needs to win races and contend for the championship”.
Tony Stewart is ending an illustrious career as a NASCAR Sprint Cup driver on his own terms.
Stewart, who deeply loves dirt track racing, isn’t getting out of the vehicle for good, though.
Controversy has also followed Stewart for most of his career. I’m still going to go race when I want to go race. My leg feels fine. Speaking at the Sports Diversity & Inclusion Symposium in New York, Pete Bevacqua told the audience “golf realizes it has to really make a few fundamental changes and unbelievable progress in this area if the game is going to continue to be healthy”.
“A lot of athletes get to this position and don’t know what they will be doing with the rest of their lives”, Stewart said. I’m going to enjoy Stewart-Haas Racing. The four-time Indianapolis 500 victor was a continual presence trackside for several years following the hanging up of the helmet- as a auto owner in various series.
When he ran there in June, it was his second race upon returning from injury.
“I’m still going to race”, Stewart added.
“Maybe. Probably”, he said when asked if he’ll get back in a sprint vehicle.
“I promise you one thing – I won’t be coming to the media center every week to talk about it”, Stewart said.
The last three years have been especially tough for Stewart.
Tony Stewart says it was his choice to step away – and no one else’s. “There wasn’t any pressure from anybody, if anything it was the opposite”.
“There’s been more challenges in the last couple years that have distracted from (having fun) a little bit, but it’s still fun”. And there are just as many tracks he still wants to see before his ultimate and final retirement, which isn’t likely to come until, in his words, “I retire from living”.
An appeals committee has upheld penalties against Bowyer and Michael Waltrip Racing that effectively ends any shot Bowyer had at winning the Sprint Cup championship. In the first year of a three-year deal, Bowyer all of a sudden found himself without a ride. His planned departure isn’t a surprise. The lawsuit, which began after former UCLA basketball star Ed O’Bannon saw his own likeness used in an NCAA basketball video game, has sparked a wave of change in NCAA athletics, including greater autonomy for members of the so-called “power five” conferences, including the SEC.
“Somehow you landed in a way better situation. That’s exactly what this is for me”. The team also has two Cup Series titles in the past five seasons after Kevin Harvick won the 2014 title. Everything happened for a reason. Proud to call you my friend!
Stewart has won 48 cup races, is tied for 13th all-time and has won three cup championships – the most recent in 2011. He moved to full-time competition with Joe Gibbs Racing in 1999.
Stewart is now 25th in the Sprint Cup Series driver standings with a sub-standard two top-10 finishes in his No. 14 Bass Pro Shops/Mobil 1 Chevrolet this year.
He was given 50 percent ownership in Haas CNC Racing following the 2008 season, and the organization was renamed Stewart-Haas Racing.
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July 2001 – Immediately after the Pepsi 400, Stewart confronts Winston Cup Director Gary Nelson, in the process batting a tape recorder out of a reporter’s hand and then kicking it under a truck. “I don’t know anybody that loves racing more”.
