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Racer says crash that killed Kevin Ward Jr. was avoidable
By Lia Eustachewich
August 12, 2014 | 1:41am

Upstate cops intensified their probe into whether NASCAR driver Tony Stewart intentionally mowed down and killed a rival — while another racer said he thought the tragedy could have been avoided.
Paul Kinney — who was also competing when Stewart’s car struck driver Kevin Ward Jr. on a dirt track in Canandaigua Saturday — said he clearly saw Ward on the track and managed to dodge him himself.
“I seen Kevin clear as day. Nobody else ran into him, either,” he told NBC News, noting he was close enough to see Ward’s face after the 20-year-old stepped out of his car, angrily gesturing at Stewart.
“It’s not a good idea to get out of your car and run towards other cars,’’ Kinney said.
As for Stewart, “Nobody can speak for Tony. Only Tony knows exactly what happened.”
Probers reconstructed the crash Monday and said they were still seeking more video from that night. They said they have reviewed two tapes so far.
Stewart — a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion and the most experienced driver in Saturday’s Empire Super Sprints race — appeared to bump Ward’s car with his own, causing Ward to spin out.
Ward got out of his car onto the track to confront Stewart.

As Stewart raced by, he appeared to hit the throttle, fishtailing and striking Ward.
Stewart, 43, hasn’t been criminally charged in Ward’s death, but TV legal analyst Rob Becker said it’s likely he will be.
“What happens when you hit that throttle is the car is going to move to the right . . . Stewart had to know that if he hit the throttle with a man standing on the dirt to his right, there was a good chance the car would hit him, which means there’s a good chance he could be killed,” Becker said Fox Sports 1.

“To me, that’s reckless homicide. That’s manslaughter in the second degree.”

Ontario County Sheriff’s Department officials said that Stewart — known for his temper on the track — was questioned Saturday and Sunday and that there were currently no plans to question him again.

“At this time, there are no facts that exist that support any criminal behavior or conduct or any probable cause of a criminal act in this investigation,” Sheriff Philip Povero said Monday.

Stewart, meanwhile, announced Monday that he was dropping out of a dirt-track race Saturday in Indiana.
It was not clear whether he would compete in this weekend’s NASCAR race at Michigan International Speedway.
Stewart “will have as much time as he needs to make that decision,” said his rep, Mike Arning. “It is still an emotional time for all involved, Tony included. He is grieving, and grief doesn’t have a timetable.”

On Monday, daisies and sunflowers were left at the Canandaigua track in memory of Ward, a Port Leyden resident.
Reached by phone, a relative of Ward refused to say if she felt Stewart should be charged.
“We need our space to grieve,” said the woman.

Earlier Monday, Ward’s aunt lashed out at Stewart.
“Thanks for thinking of our family tony Stewart when you decided to be a d***!” Wendi Ward posted on Facebook.


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There is one expert witness and a witness at the scene of the incident that will testify against Stewart.  

Not looking good for Stewart...The racing community is going to try to save the sport.  They can't lose the PR battle and tarnish the entire sport.  They can't afford to lose sponsors to public pressure.  Tony Stewart will be made out to be a monster, so the public perception doesn't view the entire sport like a blood sport.


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Now - another point of view - from another sprint car driver and for those who claim that Mr. Ward being dressed in black was not a factor .. carefully read Mr. Sparks' statement underlined below:

EXCLUSIVE: Crash Witness Says Tony Stewart Could Not Have Avoided Hitting Other Driver
By: TWC News Staff Updated 08/12/2014 06:16 AM S


CANANDAIGUA, N.Y. -- Ontario County Sheriff Phil Povero said Monday that the investigation is progressing into the deadly crash involving NASCAR star Tony Stewart at a dirt track in the Finger Lakes.
Stewart's car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. during Saturday night's race at Canandaigua Motorsports Park. Ward got out of his car before he was hit. Ward was 20 years old.

Povero said the autopsy on Ward was conducted earlier Monday, and the Ontario County Coroner ruled the cause of his death was massive blunt force trauma.

Povero said at this time, there are no facts that support any criminal behavior or conduct, or probable cause in the crash, but emphasized that the investigation is open.

Investigators have now reviewed two videos of the incident. Povero said they show two different angles of Ward walking on the track after a crash at turn two on the 14th lap, and then being hit by Stewart's winged sprint car.


"From what I saw, Tony did everything in his power to turn down away from Kevin to avoid him," said sprint car driver Cory Sparks.
Sparks was just a few cars behind Stewart during Saturday's race. He said videos that have been posted online do not give an accurate picture of what happened.


"People say that they heard the engine rev up and he gassed it. In a sprint car, the only way to steer is you steer with the rear wheels as much as you do the steering wheel. In my opinion, what he did was he gassed it to turn down away from him," said Sparks.

Sparks also said drivers are very limited with the amount they can see out of the right side of the car.

"Kevin was wearing all-black. A black fire suit, a black helmet,
which in normal situations isn't a big deal, they are to go with the colors of your car. It was tragic accident and a mistake was made," said Sparks.

Povero said investigators have spoken to Stewart twice, and they are continuing to speak with other racers, track staff, and those in the stands to figure out exactly what happened.

"I think that the biggest thing is to remember Kevin Ward as a great race car driver, not a victim of Tony Stewart," said Sparks.



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Now - another point of view - from another sprint car driver and for those who claim that Mr. Ward being dressed in black was not a factor .. carefully read Mr. Sparks' statement underlined below:





Too bad you can never speak using your own brain instead of constantly copying and pasting.

I do not believe that Tony intentionally it Kevin.  Because YOU do NOT know how these cars handle and we are familiar with them, and knowing Tony's longtime attitdde problem, it is possible that Smoke tried to scare Kevin, nudge him just enough scare him for coming out on the track like that.  I am NOT saying that IS what happened, I'm saying it is a possibility, albeit a slight one.


And DV, before you go copying and pasting any news today that NASCAR now has a new rule that is preventing drivers from getting out of cars (unless car on fire), well, if that rule had been in effect last week, it would NOT have changed what happened last week.


Just can't help but think how much JZ broke off with Tony Stewart


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Kevin Harvick defends friend, teammate Tony Stewart
AP 3:42 p.m. EDT August 14, 2014

Kevin Harvick defended his boss and friend Tony Stewart, saying the three-time NASCAR champion would never try and run down another driver.

Kevin Ward Jr. was sent into the wall when his car was bumped by Stewart's in a dirt-track race Saturday night at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park. Ward got out of the car and walked onto the track, where he was hit by Stewart.

"Tony Stewart is a great person," Harvick said Wednesday. "I know in my heart he would never do anything like that on purpose. We just have to let it all play out. I do know that Tony is a great friend of mine, I've known him a long time, and he probably has the biggest heart of anybody in that garage."

Stewart has not announced if he'll race Sunday in the NASCAR event at Michigan International Speedway.

No charges have been filed against Stewart. Ontario County Sheriff Philip Povero said Tuesday the crash investigation will continue at least another two weeks.

"There a lot of things going on, a lot of things you don't understand, with the sensitivity of the situation," Harvick said. "I spent some time with the team just making sure everyone's ready to go this weekend. If you look at what's going on with our specific race team, I feel like the guys are ready to go."

Harvick left Richard Childress Racing to join SHR in 2014


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Kevin Harvick defends friend, teammate Tony Stewart
AP 3:42 p.m. EDT August 14, 2014

Kevin Harvick defended his boss and friend Tony Stewart, saying the three-time NASCAR champion would never try and run down another driver.

"Tony Stewart is a great person," Harvick said Wednesday.




Again, just more copy and paste.   You can NEVER post in from your own brain.  

I can repeat over and over again, I can't imagine Tony EVER risking a lucrative career over a small little race that does not do anything for him, IF he won it would pay peanuts, and he is not in any points race.


However, isn't that nice of you to go find something to copy and paste that praises Tony Stewart when everyone in the industry knows what a hot head he is!  


Again, if NASCAR'S new rule about getting out of the car was had been in effect for 50 years, it would have had ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT whatsoever on the race last Saturday.



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Tony Stewart races winged sprint cars for FUN!

I watched him race at Fonda Speedway a few years back.  In an interview at the track he said he
just got off the phone with his NASCAR crew chief who spent his off week vacationing in the Caribbean...
Stewart said he spends his off time doing what he loves to do... Race.


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philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.

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Tony Stewart has more than made his mark
Now auto racing’s man for all reasons
By Michael Vega  | GLOBE STAFF   JULY 14, 2013

LOUDON, N.H. — Tony Stewart has always chafed at the description of his vast racing conglomeration as being an “empire.’’

Something about that never suited Stewart, 42, of Columbus, Ind., a blue-collar racer who traced his open-wheel roots to the dirt tracks of the Midwest. That’s where he became a popular USAC Triple Crown champion in 1995 before going on to greater glory as an Indy car champion in 1997, and later a three-time NASCAR Sprint Cup champion driver turned team owner, car owner, and track promoter.

“He doesn’t like to call it an empire,” said Eddie Jarvis, a trusted adviser and executive vice president of Stewart’s three-car Sprint Cup team, Stewart-Haas Racing.

Car owner Gene Haas lured Stewart from Joe Gibbs Racing in 2008 when he offered Stewart an equity stake in a team housed in a 144,000-square-foot facility in Kannapolis, N.C., that offered the promise of engine, chassis, and technical support from Hendrick Motorsports.

Stewart quickly expanded SHR into a 190-employee team that provided support for his Cup car as well as those of teammates Danica Patrick and Ryan Newman, who learned Wednesday from Stewart he would not be coming back to the team in 2014 and would be replaced on the roster by Kevin Harvick.

“I like to call him ‘The Accidental CEO,’ ’’ said Mike Arning, founder of True Speed Communications, which handles PR for Stewart’s team. “Because it’s like he fell into all of this.’’

Stewart’s racing empire — we’ll go ahead and call it that — sprouted from a seminal moment in 2000 when he was at a racetrack for a World of Outlaws event and noticed driver Danny Lasoski moping around, which prompted Stewart to ask, “What’s wrong with you?’’


“He was telling me about his situation,’’ Stewart said. “The guy he was supposed to drive for — or drove for the year before — hadn’t let him know one way or another whether he was driving for him, and this was in the beginning of January.

“He said, ‘All I’ve got right now is a [driver’s] seat in one hand and my helmet bag in the other, and I don’t even know who I’m driving for.’ That’s kind of a big deal when you’ve got a wife and two kids. And that’s how it started. That’s how this whole thing started.’’

A little more than a year after Tony Stewart Racing was formed on Nov. 1, 2000, Lasoski delivered Stewart his first World of Outlaws championship. From that humble beginning, TSR blossomed into a powerful five-team entry in World of Outlaws and USAC, which operated out of a 25,000-square-foot facility in Brownsburg, Ind. It is home to Stewart’s three USAC teams and two WOO teams, which have produced 16 owner championships — 12 USAC, 4 WOO.

Stewart added to his racing portfolio in 2004 when Earl Baltes, who was in failing health, summoned Stewart to his famed dirt track in Rossburg, Ohio, to ask the driver about buying Eldora Speedway. Baltes told Stewart he was a perfect candidate to take over because he and his wife believed Stewart would champion the grassroots racing at Eldora and keep it alive.

“I didn’t have any ambition to buy a racetrack,’’ Stewart said. “But when he told me that, I was like, ‘Heck, how do you not do it now?’ . . . And that’s how Eldora came about.’’

Stewart made a huge capital expenditure to improve the track. Two years ago, Stewart hired Roger Slack, a former vice president of events at Charlotte Motor Speedway, to handle the day-to-day racing operation at Eldora. The historic dirt oval will host its first NASCAR event, a Camping World Truck Series race, July 24.

“I admire him more than he’ll ever know because he’s been able to manage both [roles] and the fact that he’s had that drive,’’ said five-time Sprint Cup champion Jimmie Johnson. “It’s guys like Tony who have helped motor racing and keep it around in [grassroots] areas, help develop young drivers, and obviously, at the highest level, he’s fielding three cars.

“His impact is far and wide on our sport and I respect him a ton for it. I just have no desire. I just want to show up with my helmet bag, climb in the car, drive it, and hand them the keys when I’m done and say, ‘Thanks, boys.’ ”

Plenty of help

How does Stewart juggle it all?

“It’s just having a lot of good people and putting them in the right positions,’’ said Stewart. “There are people who are doing the job and I check in and know the status of everything. So, if you hire the right people, you don’t have to be on top of it every day. It makes it to where it’s a lot easier.’’

Stewart leans on Jarvis to handle his scheduling and as an adviser on personnel matters. Brett Frood, a Brown graduate with a Harvard MBA, was brought aboard to help provide Stewart with sound business counsel. Greg Zipadelli, Stewart’s former crew chief at Gibbs Racing, was hired to add further stability to the racing operation as director of competition.

Stewart’s network insulates him from the day-to-day minutiae of running the team. They allow him to function worry-free during race weekend. “The last thing we want is for him to be not focused on winning the race,’’ Jarvis said.

“I think hiring Brett was probably the best thing we’ve ever done,’’ Jarvis added. “When he came into the sport, he didn’t really know anything about the sport. But it’s been a really good balance between him and me. He’s taught me a lot and I’ve taught him a lot. I’d say 99 percent of the time Brett and I always agree. The one percent when we don’t agree, we always make the decision that’s best for Tony. We all know each other pretty well.’’

When Stewart was presented with an equity stake in Haas CNC Racing, it gave the driver the perfect vehicle to facilitate his exit strategy from racing. Stewart put his stamp on the team when he won his third Sprint Cup title in 2011, snapping Johnson’s string of five championships.

“When this opportunity came along, it was like ‘Wow,’ because Brett, Eddie, and I had been talking about our long-range plan,’’ Stewart said. “What was I going to do after I quit driving? When this opportunity came along, it was like, ‘I’m going to have something to do when I quit driving.’ I can stay part of the sport, I can be involved in it, I just won’t have to be behind a steering wheel.’’

Far from finish line

In no way was it suggested that Stewart, who continues to barnstorm around the country driving in sprint car races, was prepared to park it for good any time soon. Quite the contrary.

Friday when he began preparations for Sunday’s Camping World RV Sales 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, Stewart’s well-rounded experience came to bear when he was forced to don his drivers’ hat, his owner’s hat, and track promoter’s hat.

It began when he dealt with the announcement that Harvick was coming aboard SHR in 2014 to drive a Budweiser-sponsored No. 4 Chevrolet. Stewart said it was a bittersweet moment since it coincided with the news that Newman would not be coming back to the three-car team next season.

“I’m bringing in another one of my friends to the organization,’’ Stewart said of Harvick, whose Nationwide Series team was launched with Stewart’s support as a driver. “But I also know that I’m losing a friend at the end of the year to the organization. The No. 1 thing when Ryan and I spoke is that our friendship will not change. This was a business decision that was Gene’s as well as mine, and it was a hard decision.

“There is a personal side and there is a business side. For Ryan and I, we had to put the personal bit of it aside to work through the business part.’’

Once that matter was settled, Stewart climbed into his No. 14 Chevrolet and qualified 16th fastest in the 43-car grid. He then flew to Eldora to run in the Kings Royal sprint car event. He was scheduled to repeat the trip to Eldora for the Kings Royal feature after Saturday’s final Cup practice at NHMS.

“He wants to run [sprint car] open-wheel races and he understands what comes along with that,’’ Jarvis said. “It takes up a lot of his time, but that’s what makes him happy. It’s kind of a balancing act, but we’ve all learned that he’s very, very passionate about racing.’’

So much so, Stewart, unlike many of his Cup colleagues, has put aside any ambition to get married, settle down, and start a family.

“I’ve thought about that for a long time, but it just hasn’t happened,’’ Stewart said. “I guess it’s part of the reason why I do so much because I know that would change everything. I’m going to get all that I can, while I can.’’

Given his hectic race schedule, when Stewart stumbled out of the blocks this season, languishing outside the top 20 for 10 of the first 11 weeks, it gave rise to concerns that perhaps he had spread himself too thin.

“If I felt like it was because we were spread too thin, it would be one thing,’’ said Stewart, who finally visited Victory Lane at Dover June 2. He climbed into the top 10 for the first time this season with a fifth place at Michigan June 16.

“Every time we’ve done a venture like this, we’ve done it knowing that this is what it’s going to take to do it,’’ Stewart said. “This is the amount of people we need, this is the amount of resources we have to have. We look at all that before we commit to doing something.’’

“Nobody on our side said, ‘Hey, we’re overloaded and we’re not running good.’ We’re not running good because we were not doing the right things with the racecars. It’s not that we were spread thin.’’

Asked if he ever rued the day he asked Lasoski what had been bothering him, especially since it led to the start of a racing empire beyond anything he could imagine, Stewart replied, “No, I’ve enjoyed every bit of it. It’s like anything else, I mean, there’s been bumps in the road with it.

“He’s since moved on and he drives for other people. We’ve had drivers come and go, but I love it. I love being a car owner and I still love driving obviously, I love having the racetracks. There’s not a part of the sport that I don’t love.’’

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Tony Stewart races winged sprint cars for FUN!

I watched him race at Fonda Speedway a few years back.  In an interview at the track he said he
just got off the phone with his NASCAR crew chief who spent his off week vacationing in the Caribbean...
Stewart said he spends his off time doing what he loves to do... Race.




Precisely, that's why I used my own brain (I don't need to search the internet to copy and paste stuff) to state that he wouldn't risk a lucrative career for a race that pays only a couple thousand to the winner and for which he isn't in a points race.


Yes, we went to Fonda maybe twice when he was there.   Also went to the Ridge when there was an attempt to keep his appearance there a big secret, I think word go around the night before.

I believe we posted this previously, two years ago I think this was



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Tony Stewart has more than made his mark
Now auto racing’s man for all reasons
By Michael Vega  | GLOBE STAFF   JULY 14, 2013

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Once again, NOTHING BUT COPY AND PASTTE.    DV just can't talk about Tony Stewart or anything racing from his own brain, but that's because he has no knowledge of racing.

And obviously DV just can't accept the FACT that Tony Stewart IS a HOT HEAD  


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Stewart's hometown, aware of generosity, volatility, agonizes
  Josh Peter 8:19 p.m. EDT August 13, 2014 Lancaster- Eagle-Gazette
COLUMBUS, Ind. – The lunch crowd was thinning at Dairy Queen and longtime owner Bob Franke looked distressed. He was recalling what he heard someone say on the radio the other day about Tony Stewart, the celebrated native son who grew up here — 45 minutes south of Indianapolis — and for decades has visited Franke's joint for chili dogs and chocolate milkshakes.

Stewart used his car like a weapon, that's what fellow racer Stewart Friesen said in an interview with ESPN.

"That's totally unfair," said Franke, who became Stewart's first sponsor when Tony was riding go-karts at the 4-H Fairgrounds as an 8-year-old. "We don't know what was going on in his mind. Only Tony knows."

Franke is among the legion of Stewart loyalists who say it's unthinkable the three-time NASCAR champion acted with malicious intent in the death of 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr., killed in upstate New York on Saturday when the car Stewart was driving hit Ward, who had exited his wrecked car but remained on the track. Ontario County (N.Y.) Sheriff Philip Povero twice has said there is no evidence at this time that indicates a crime has been committed.

But this week in the tragedy's aftermath, Franke and others grappled with the saga. Some things they know: positive things about Stewart's character that they say have gone largely unnoticed, such as his giving spirit. They also know their hometown hero has an edge and a history of confrontational behavior. There are some things only Stewart knows.

Stewart — by 2005 a multimillionaire — moved back into his own childhood home in a middle-class neighborhood two blocks from where he went to high school.

Even after he moved into a 15,000-square foot, custom-built log cabin that sits on 400 acres of wooded land, Stewart still dropped by the Dairy Queen to get his chili dogs and milkshakes.

In 2013, Stewart's charitable foundation helped pay for a racing-theme playground in the neighborhood in which he grew up. In a city of 45,429 residents, Stewart is well-known as a fiery competitor and a do-gooder. The Tony Stewart Foundation —created in 2003 — is active with several causes, especially helping injured drivers, chronically ill children and abused animals.

"Tony's done so much for so many different organizations," Franke said, adding Stewart has sponsored a bevy of young drivers. "Tony is a race car driver that cares for people."

Seeing both sides

Down at The Garage Pub & Grill, Stewart's good-guy reputation among locals didn't quiet the debate about his intent in the fatal incident.

Bartender Mike Schofield said Stewart conducted himself impeccably during a handful of visits to his restaurant in the past two years. He waited patiently for a table, even signed autographs. But Schofield also has seen footage and read accounts of the incidents that have cemented Stewart's reputation as being hot-tempered.

Such as the time Stewart knocked the headphones off a track official at a midget race, or when he kicked a reporter's tape recorder or shoved a photographer at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2002, leading him to agree to anger-management counseling. He once took a swing at fellow driver Robby Gordon, and he threw a helmet at Matt Kenseth's car during a race.

But of all the controversy he'd faced, there's been nothing like this.

Stewart and Ward were battling for track position when Stewart spun out Ward's car and sent him into the wall. A lap later, Ward had climbed out of his car and angrily gestured toward Stewart's car, which struck Ward.

"Once again, Tony was acting like a (jerk)," Schofield said.

But the bartender found himself engaged in an animated discussion with pub regular Trent Temperly about Stewart's intent. Ultimately, the bartender gave way when Temperly —a marketing manager with an environmental company — pointed out the amateur video and eyewitness accounts gathered by investigators amount to scant evidence.

"At the end of the day," Temperly said, "only Tony knows."

It's a view that has been echoed by Ward's family, from a far different perspective. In an interview with The Syracuse Post-Standard, his father said Ward was dressed in an orange and black suit with fluorescent stripes down the sides that glowed under the lights. There was a caution flag, racers were slowing and the other drivers saw Ward walking, he said.

"The one person that knows what happened that night is possibly facing 10 years in prison. Is he going to say what he done?" Kevin Ward Sr. said in the interview published on syracuse.com.

'Just hoping'

Authorities say Stewart, 43, has been cooperative in their investigation. His only public comment was a statement Sunday to express sadness over Ward's death and offer condolences to his family.

On Monday, Stewart-Haas Racing director of communications Mike Arning said there is no timetable on a decision on when Stewart will return to NASCAR's premier circuit. His non-NASCAR schedule is suspended indefinitely.

"The decision to compete in this weekend's NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event at Michigan will be Tony's, and he will have as much time as he needs to make that decision," Arning said in an email. "It is still an emotional time for all involved, Tony included. He is grieving, and grief doesn't have a timetable."

At the end of the day Tuesday, Larry Martz — among Stewart's close friends — acknowledged he also knew only so much.

He'd sent Stewart a text message after the tragedy but had yet to hear back. He began to think about their history.

Martz was an early sponsor of Stewart when he was a lanky kid racing midget cars. Stewart lived with Martz and his family for almost a year and a half in nearby Rushville. In that time, Martz said, they drilled the temperamental young driver with a single refrain: Do the right thing.

"I know my wife was constantly on him about doing the right thing," Martz said. "You're just hoping everything is all right."

Only Tony knows.


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So a wonderful guy, huh DV?    Of course, DV wouldn't know which one is Tony Stewart in any of these videos anyway


http://youtu.be/VseH8mZCksc

http://youtu.be/REnIe8q3E4I

http://youtu.be/wwc8obMmv7o


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Stewart's hometown, aware of generosity, volatility, agonizes
  Josh Peter 8:19 p.m. EDT August 13, 2014 Lancaster- Eagle-Gazette
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Oh my goodness, he's on a roll.   DV can't speak about racing from any knowledge of his own, he has to get desparate googling Tony Stewart's name


DV couldn't tell one NASCAR car from another NASCAR car


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http://youtu.be/eDNbzETtHxQ


Oh it must have been we were there in 2012.  Definitely not 2013.   Haven't seen this.   Louie's daughter interviewing, such a legend he was.   She sings well too, she did the national anthem at Super Dirt Week a while back


Speaking of legends, thinking about all those ice bucket challenges, I'm waiting to see if they do one at Fonda since Jumpin Jack has ALS, really in rough shape


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So Tony Stewart hangs out at the DQ in hometown of Columbus, IN
DAIRY QUEEN BRAZIER
616 3rd St   Columbus, IN 47201

But they say that Becker's Drive-In in Columbus has better food.
BECKER'S DRIVE-IN
1024 25th St, Columbus, IN 47201


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