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Tony Stewart still struggling a year after Ward Jr.'s fatal wreck
By JENNA FRYER (AP Auto Racing Writer)
AP - Sports
As he ran out of gas on the final lap Sunday at Pocono Raceway, Tony Stewart wearily asked his team where he finished.
Ninth, he was told.
''Hell, I'll take that,'' he replied.
It was a curiously calm reaction considering only minutes before Stewart had been poised for a top-five finish. Maybe even top three. Stewart didn't complain about the lost opportunity. He takes what he get on the race track these days, which are often bleak and embarrassing for the three-time NASCAR champion.
But that's the way the last two years have gone for Stewart, who is to race Sunday at Watkins Glen International Raceway for the first time since 2012. He missed the 2013 race with a broken leg, then skipped the race last season following the accident in which his sprint car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. the night before the race.
Sunday, the day Stewart is scheduled to run NASCAR's road course race, is the anniversary of Ward's death.
Nothing has been the same for Stewart since the 20-year-old was killed when he climbed from his wrecked race car and walked down the track at Canandaigua Motorsports Park to confront the NASCAR star. Ward was struck and killed by Stewart, who called it ''100 percent an accident.'' A grand jury declined to indict Stewart.
Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/stewart-still-struggling-ward-jr-fatal-wreck-185628367--nascar.html
By JENNA FRYER (AP Auto Racing Writer)
AP - Sports
As he ran out of gas on the final lap Sunday at Pocono Raceway, Tony Stewart wearily asked his team where he finished.
Ninth, he was told.
''Hell, I'll take that,'' he replied.
It was a curiously calm reaction considering only minutes before Stewart had been poised for a top-five finish. Maybe even top three. Stewart didn't complain about the lost opportunity. He takes what he get on the race track these days, which are often bleak and embarrassing for the three-time NASCAR champion.
But that's the way the last two years have gone for Stewart, who is to race Sunday at Watkins Glen International Raceway for the first time since 2012. He missed the 2013 race with a broken leg, then skipped the race last season following the accident in which his sprint car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. the night before the race.
Sunday, the day Stewart is scheduled to run NASCAR's road course race, is the anniversary of Ward's death.
Nothing has been the same for Stewart since the 20-year-old was killed when he climbed from his wrecked race car and walked down the track at Canandaigua Motorsports Park to confront the NASCAR star. Ward was struck and killed by Stewart, who called it ''100 percent an accident.'' A grand jury declined to indict Stewart.
Read more: http://sports.yahoo.com/news/stewart-still-struggling-ward-jr-fatal-wreck-185628367--nascar.html
