NASCAR champ Tony Stewart broke his leg after being involved in a four-car crash last night at Southern Iowa Speedway.
Details of what happened after the jump…
Via ESPN:
Three-time NASCAR champion Tony Stewart will miss this weekend’s road course race at Watkins Glen after breaking his right leg in a sprint car race Monday night.
A spokesman for Stewart said the 42-year-old driver broke his right tibia and fibula and had surgery after he was transported to a local hospital. An update was expected Tuesday afternoon, and Stewart-Haas Racing did not immediately announce a replacement driver for Stewart’s No. 14 Chevrolet at Watkins Glen, where Stewart is a five-time winner.
The team did cancel its scheduled Tuesday test at Atlanta Motor Speedway.
The sprint car accident came a day after Stewart finished ninth in the NASCAR race at Pocono Raceway. He’s 11th in the Sprint Cup standings with five races to go until the Chase for the Cup field is set. Missing the Watkins Glen race means Stewart likely will miss the Chase.
Stewart was leading the 30-lap feature in a 360 winged sprint car with five laps remaining when a lapped car spun in Turn 4 and collected Stewart and two others.
Race winner Brian Brown told The Des Moines Register that he saw the accident in front of him, turned left, hit an infield tire and kept going.
“It looked like he got into a lapped car,” Brown told the Register. “When I got close, he was flipping cage down. I didn’t really have time to watch and see what was going on.
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