Drag Race Devotee Tony Stewart Anticipates Repercussions From NASCAR While Exposing the Sad Reality of Stock Car Racing

After his glorious run in Indycar and NASCAR circles, collecting all the rightful accolades, 3-time Cup Series champion Tony Stewart has his eyes set on the NHRA drag strip. Following his first victory in the drag strip, clinching the national event in a quad race, Stewart revealed the intricacies of the NASCAR world and compared them to his current drag scene.

In his recent appearance on FloRacing’s UNHINGED with CE podcast, the Stewart-Haas Racing co-owner revealed his thoughts on his newfound passion for NHRA, citing the nuances of NASCAR and how things are different between the two forms of motorsports.

Tony Stewart reveals the bitter reality of NASCAR events

The veteran driver elaborated on how the sports differ, citing some disappointing realities in NASCAR. With his new-found love for drag events, fans witnessed a zealous Stewart vividly explaining how things turn out on the drag strip.

While mentioning the obvious differences between each sport, the former NASCAR driver briefed the host, Courtney Enders, about the bitter state of NASCAR events. He said, “You know, I think honestly and […] I’m sure I’ll get penalized at some point for saying all this, but I’ve always said that […] if you’re just gonna go for the race itself, it’s 10 times better to watch it on TV than be there in person. An NHRA drag race is the exact opposite of that.”

Stewart then took the listeners on a journey as he illustrated the scenes at a drag event vividly. He added, “If you have the opportunity to go to a drag race, and you get to go down in the pit area, and you get to smell the Nitro, you to see the teams working on the cars, and you’re 10 feet away from them.

“But to feel that concussion when the cars hit the gas on a starting line you could, it doesn’t matter how high up in the bleachers you’re sitting, you feel that in your body and you feel stuff moving in your body you’ve never felt before and that’s there’s nothing, there’s nowhere else in the world, there’s no other kind of motorsport that you get that sensation.”  

The champion certainly knows how to paint a picture.

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Earlier in the show, the host pointed out a distinctive trait of such drag events—that such events cater to only a select group of viewers. While Stewart asked NASCAR fans to head out to the drag strip to catch these nitro monsters taking off, he briefly mentioned a rather encouraging interaction with NASCAR fans he had during one of these races.

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He said, “If you get them there once, everybody that I’ve met that has been a NASCAR fan that said, ‘Hey we came to see you this weekend.’

“And then I said come back at the end of the day and let me know what you thought about it. And they’ll come back at the end of the day and they’re like, ‘We had no idea how crazy this was and how cool this was.'”

Stewart has always been the type of guy to constantly evolve and go searching for new ventures. After encountering early setbacks in his drag career, the driver is thrilled to win it on the big stage, and his love for the sport is evident in his words as he described the scenes on the drag strip.