Stewart, a three-time champion of the NASCAR Cup Sequence, competed within the Prime Alcohol dragster division for McPhillips Racing over the previous yr. He ended 2023 because the championship runner-up, dropping out to Julie Nataas.
The 52-year-old is a busy man, fielding a Prime Gas dragster for his spouse Leah Pruett and Humorous Automotive driver Matt Hagan. He additionally runs a Dash Automotive staff and is the co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing in NASCAR the place he fields two full-time Xfinity automobiles and a four-car Cup staff.
Stewart’s spouse Leah will sit out the 2024 season as she and Stewart give attention to beginning a household. He’ll take her place within the Prime Gas dragster, saying in a launch from the staff: “I’m very pleased with my spouse. To decide like this has acquired to be extraordinarily arduous. I don’t assume from a male’s perspective that we are able to totally grasp it. To be a aggressive, skilled race automotive driver and must make the choice to take your self out of the seat to begin a household isn’t a place most males would need to be put in. We had mentioned beginning a household and this was her resolution. In these discussions, we got here to the conclusion that the timing was as much as her. I used to be very supportive as as to whether she wished to do it now or years from now. I’m very humbled that Leah and [crew chief Neal Strausbaugh] felt I used to be the driving force to fill in for her. I really feel honored that I can try this for my spouse and this staff.”
Talking on the choice to step out of the driving force’s seat, Pruett mentioned: “Drag racing has been an necessary a part of my life for over three quarters of my life. 27 years of racing within the NHRA has molded who I’m and I’m extraordinarily grateful for the life it has given me. By way of a protracted sequence of thought processes and a choice that didn’t occur in a single day, I really feel that stepping out of the seat proper now could be what’s greatest for myself and Tony to begin a household.”
Together with being a three-time champion of the NASCAR Cup Sequence, Stewart’s profession as a driver contains titles in IndyCar, USAC, IROC, and the SRX Sequence he based. Might he add NHRA to that record in 2024?
