Q&A with NASCAR champion Tony Stewart

 

LAS VEGAS, NV - DECEMBER 05 2011:  NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart speaks onstage after winning the Myers Brothers Award at the NMPA Myers Brothers Awards Luncheon at the Encore Las Vegas on December 5, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  (Photo by David Becker/NASCAR via Getty Images)
LAS VEGAS, NV – DECEMBER 05 2011: NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart speaks onstage after winning the Myers Brothers Award at the NMPA Myers Brothers Awards Luncheon at the Encore Las Vegas on December 5, 2013 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by David Becker/NASCAR via Getty Images)

Tony Stewart missed most of the last half of the 2013 NASCAR Sprint Cup season after crashing a sprint car during a dirt track race in Iowa. While he was on the mend, his Stewart-Haas Racing team didn’t stay idle. They signed new drivers, Kevin Harvick and Kurt Busch and continued preparations for the 2014 NASCAR Sprint Cup season. As for Stewart, despite two surgeries and a long recovery he is ready to race again starting with next month’s Daytona 500. Stewart met with members of the media Thursday at Daytona as his teams took part in a test for next month’s Daytona 500. Below is a transcript of that meeting. MORE>>>

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Greg is a published award winning sportswriter who spent 23 years combined active and active reserve military service, much of that in and around the Special Operations community. Greg is the author of "The Nuts and Bolts of NASCAR: The Definitive Viewers' Guide to Big-Time Stock Car Auto Racing" and has been published in major publications across the country including the Los Angeles Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He was also a contributor to Chicken Soup for the NASCAR Soul, published in 2010, and the Christmas edition in 2016. He wrote as the NASCAR, Formula 1, Auto Reviews and National Veterans Affairs Examiner for Examiner.com and has appeared on Fox News. He holds a BS degree in communications, a Masters degree in psychology and is currently a PhD candidate majoring in psychology. He is currently the weekend Motorsports Editor for Autoweek.