CHARLOTTE Local Charlotte Information — NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart is launching a new NHRA race staff. Leah Pruett, Stewart’s fiancée, will be the driver, sources notify FOX Charlotte’s Will Kunkel. The announcement is predicted to be manufactured formal Thursday morning.
Stewart, owner of Tony Stewart Racing and co-operator of Stewart-Haas racing, spent 18 many years driving in the NASCAR Cup Sequence. He retired in 2016 to focus on his ownership obligations. Even though in the motor vehicle, Stewart gained the 1999 Winston Cup Sequence Rookie of the Calendar year and went on to earn 49 races and tallying 308 major tens in 618 races. “Smoke” was inducted into the NASCAR Corridor of Fame in 2020.
🚨🚨🚨BREAKING Tony Stewart is launching a new NHRA race group, according to sources. I’m instructed Leah Pruett, his fiancée, will be the driver.#NASCAR | #NHRA
Pruett is an American drag racer, now driving an NHRA Prime Gasoline dragster for Don Schumacher Racing. Pruett received the 2010 NHRA Sizzling Rod Heritage Racing Sequence.