Tony Stewart is a racer’s racer. If a greyhound, a fighter pilot and a
chainsaw sculptor were somehow genetically welded together, reengineered with
gasoline and cloned to form a half-carburetor, half-human racing man/machine,
Tony would be that man/machine. Tony Stewart was born to race. In other words,
if when Tony Stewart was born the doctor told him racing hadn’t been
invented yet, he would crawl to the library, teach himself how to read and
begin studying how to cryogenically freeze himself long enough for racing to
be invented. In 2005, during a race, Tony Stewart got tired and, while taking
a nap in the backseat, passed eight cars to clinch the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
championship.
If Tony Stewart were in a presidential race, his campaign bus would be a 50-passenger
Camaro and people would vote for him because he would promise to do donuts on
the White House lawn. The point is: Tony Stewart is a racer.
In fact, Tony Stewart once raced in the Indianapolis 500 and the Coca-Cola 600
in the same day and then drove home to Indiana so he could watch the race highlights
of himself racing, only to fall asleep and dream about losing a 40-yard dash to a
puma only to wake up, rent a puma and race it in real life.