Source: NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart launching own NHRA race team
CHARLOTTE (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) — NASCAR Corridor of Famer Tony Stewart is launching a new NHRA race workforce. Leah Pruett, Stewart’s fiancée, will be the driver, sources inform FOX Charlotte’s Will Kunkel. The announcement is expected to be made formal Thursday morning.
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Stewart, operator of Tony Stewart Racing and co-proprietor of Stewart-Haas racing, expended 18 yrs driving in the NASCAR Cup Collection. He retired in 2016 to concentration on his possession duties. Although in the motor vehicle, Stewart received the 1999 Winston Cup Collection Rookie of the Year and went on to gain 49 races and tallying 308 best tens in 618 races. “Smoke” was inducted into the NASCAR Corridor of Fame in 2020.
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Tony Stewart is launching a new NHRA race team, in accordance to resources.
I’m instructed Leah Pruett, his fiancée, will be the driver.#NASCAR | #NHRA— Will Kunkel (@WillKunkelFOX) October 12, 2021
Pruett is an American drag racer, currently driving an NHRA Top rated Gasoline dragster for Don Schumacher Racing. Pruett gained the 2010 NHRA Very hot Rod Heritage Racing Collection.
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