Tony Stewart Drives Sprint Car For 1st Time Since Wreck
CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) - Tony Stewart has driven a sprint car again, roughly 10 months after the accident that sidelined the three-time NASCAR champion with a broken leg.
Stewart posted several pictures to his new Twitter account of a car he drove Monday. It's not clear where the test session occurred.
Guess who got back in a sprint car for the first time today :) #smokewillrise pic.twitter.com/HBWg4dno8q
— Tony Stewart (@TonyStewart) May 27, 2014
Stewart broke his leg in a crash in a sprint car race in Iowa last August that sidelined him until February preparations for NASCAR's season-opening Daytona 500.
Stewart says on Twitter that driving the car again "was a huge day for me." In reply to a fan, he acknowledges that he indeed had butterflies, "but it felt like an old pair of shoes."
Thank you to Rusty Rush and everyone @rushtruckcenter for helping me. This was a huge day for me. 9 1/2 months since I've been in one
— Tony Stewart (@TonyStewart) May 27, 2014
He also posted that the car had safety improvements to the torque tube to prevent an injury like the one he suffered.
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