NASCAR is cat-and-mouse to see if Tony Stewart will acknowledgment to the Sprint Cup Alternation this weekend in Atlanta or sit out his fourth afterwards race.
Stewart has been in abreast aback his car addled and dead 20-year-old Kevin Ward Jr. while Ward was on bottom during a sprint-car chase Aug. 9 at the Canandaigua Motorsports clay clue in upstate New York.
Stewart, 43, again skipped the Cup contest at Watkins Glen, N.Y., Michigan International Speedway and Bristol (Tenn.) Motor Speedway.
When Stewart affairs to acknowledgment is anyone's guess. Stewart-Haas Racing, the NASCAR aggregation Stewart co-owns, has said it's absolutely up to the three-time Cup best to adjudge aback he wants to get aback abaft the caster of his No. 14 Chevrolet.
Veteran Jeff Burton has apprenticed Stewart's car the aftermost two races, afterwards Regan Smith abounding in at Watkins Glen.
The Cup alternation active this weekend to Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., a 1.5-mile egg-shaped area Stewart has won three times, best afresh in 2010. This year's Oral-B USA 500 is Sunday.
If Stewart sits out the Atlanta race, the abutting chase is Sept. 6 in Richmond, Va., which already will be beneath a ablaze spotlight. Richmond is the aftermost chase of the Cup series' approved division and appropriately the aftermost befalling for drivers to authorize for NASCAR's 10-race Chase for the Cup appellation playoff.
There's additionally belief that Stewart ability be cat-and-mouse for the after-effects of an analysis into the baleful adventure by the appointment of Ontario County (N.Y.) Sheriff Philip Povero. Povero said Aug. 12 that the delving would booty at atomic two weeks.
The baleful adventure began aback Stewart and Ward were antagonism side-by-side and Ward's car comatose into a fence. Ward again climbed from his car, absolved on the clue and appeared to be angrily pointing at Stewart aback he was addled as Stewart's car came aback around.
A clear abecedarian video captured the adventure and sparked a civic agitation about which discipli narian ability accept been at fault.
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Title : NASCAR waits to see if Tony Stewart will accomplish acknowledgment in Atlanta
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