Wrongful Death Suit Filed Against Tony Stewart

Gordon is also winless this year, but at 10th in points he’s a safe bet to make the Chase even if doesn’t break through for a victory. So far this season, there have been 11 winners, though one of them, Kyle Busch, remains 13 points outside the cutoff.

A moment of silence is scheduled at Canandaigua on Saturday night, according to a track spokesman, as the Empire Super Sprints return to the track. “We ran decent last week and that is a positive sign, but I don’t know if moving the needle two weeks in a row (is a given), I don’t know if that gives me a definitive answer right now”.

About racing the Glen, Gordon said that “you’ve got to be really aggressive here”.

Nothing can replace the four wins Jeff Gordon has at Watkins Glen, but Gordon, too, will bid farewell after this season.

“That’s incredibly wonderful”, said Rusty Wallace, who finished his Cup career with six road wins. “You get on a roll, man”. “It just seems like everybody over the years, where road course racing seemed to be brought into the sport, it has been around a long time”.

They both bumped cars during the race and the collision sent Ward into an outside retaining wall while Stewart remained in the race.

Tony Stewart did not face criminal charges over the death of Kevin Ward. The more cynical amongst us would say the publicity value is not lost on any of us. It was disappointing. The race the way it played out, I think we at least had a shot to win.

Gordon hasn’t won here since 2001 and has not triumphed at either road course NASCAR races at since a win at Sonoma in 2006.

1979 – Stewart wins first his competitive race in a go-kart in Westport, Indiana.

“Over the years we’ve run real well here at Watkins Glen“, said Busch, who was victorious here in 2008 and 2013, and has already won a road course race this season.

“Stewart could have easily acted reasonably and with prudence to avoid striking Ward, just as all other drivers had done as they passed ward during the yellow caution flag”, the lawsuit reads.

The family of racing driver Kevin Ward, who was struck and killed by Tony Stewart during a race last year, filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the NASCAR driver on Friday.

The suit was filed by Ward’s parents in Lewis County Supreme Court and claims Stewart deliberately accelerated as he saw Ward walking down the track after an incident between the pair on the previous lap.

He’ll try to focus on ending that streak.

In 2014 Stewart said: ‘There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by that I haven’t thought about it. And it will be like that all your life…