Wild news out of New York tonight as Twitter is buzzing with news that Tony Stewart ran over Kevin Ward Jr. under a caution flag during a dirt track race.
Lots of reports say Stewart did it on purpose. Police are at the track investigating, and Ward was life flighted to an area hospital.
More information here from the Charlotte Observer:
http://thatsracinluckydog.blogspot.com/2014/08/police-investigating-incident-involving.html
Lots of reports say Stewart did it on purpose. Police are at the track investigating, and Ward was life flighted to an area hospital.
More information here from the Charlotte Observer:
http://thatsracinluckydog.blogspot.com/2014/08/police-investigating-incident-involving.html
The Ontario County (N.Y.) Sheriff's Department is investigating an incident at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park involving NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Tony Stewart which occurred on Saturday evening.
At approximately 11:30 p.m. ET, a spokesman for the department said it had no comment at this time but said a news release would be prepared and available in "two to three hours."
Posts on the social media sites Facebook and Twitter, including photographs, indicate Stewart was involved in an on-track incident with driver Kevin Ward, which left Ward on the track receiving treatment for what were described as serious injuries.
Canandaigua Motorsports Park is a half-mile dirt track north of Syracuse. In recent weeks, Stewart has returned to dirt track racing after a breaking two bones in his right leg in a wreck at a dirt track in Iowa last summer.
There was no immediate response to a request for comment from Stewart's NASCAR public relations representative.