![]() “Probably around an hour and 45 minutes in he hadn’t said anything and they were like, ‘Smoke, you still there?’ And he chimed in right away, so he’s involved as well trying to figure it out.” “He was sitting there the whole two hours I was there,” Briscoe said. The team recenly had a meeting that stretched more than two hours that Briscoe called the longest he’s ever been part of and that Stewart joined remotely. He’s our boss, and we all look up to him and appreciate when he’s here at the racetrack, so it was certainly nice to have him here and see his smiling face and have him walking around patting everybody on the back.” “That wasn’t the magic to make our race cars go fast, but it was certainly nice to have him here,” Almirola said. At Nashville, he saw Almirola and Harvick finish fourth and fifth - the first time in 2021 two SHR drivers finished inside the top five. Yet, it’s Smoke who is somehow supposed to fix SHR’s problems. Your best chance to see Haas of late is on television at a Formula One race, where the two Haas cars are among the worst in the field this season. Gene Haas, the other owner with his name on the building, hasn’t been around, either. NASCAR only re-opened garages seven weeks ago. He really just sits and watches the race (at Nashville it was from inside an air-conditioned team hauler with Pruett) and his primary at-the-track responsibility is to be the Hall of Famer mingling with guests and sponsors. But Stewart doesn’t make in-race strategy calls, doesn’t go over the wall during pit stops and he doesn’t work on the cars. Foyt to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his hero’s first Indy victory, social media critics argued Stewart belonged in North Carolina at the Coca-Cola 600 with his own team. When Stewart in early May accepted an invitation to attend the Indianapolis 500 later as a guest of A.J. “It’s funny and a huge compliment that all these people think that because I’m not at the shop all the time, that I’m the one making the calls and operating all this singlehandedly and I’m the single reason why it’s not working,” the three-time NASCAR champion told the Associated Press. ![]() Stewart, who won SRX’s second race on Saturday night at Knoxville Raceway in Iowa before traveling to Nashville with Pruett by his side, finds the notion flattering. It’s meant to suggest Stewart is so wrapped up in fiancée Leah Pruett and her drag racing career, his own racing schedule and now the launch of the six-race Superstar Racing Experience that he’s ignoring SHR and its struggles. The four SHR cars combined have just six top-five finishes and 63 laps led.įans seem to think so and a meme circulates after every SHR poor race of a mother paying attention to only one child in the pool as the other struggles to stay afloat. SHR doesn’t have the speed to challenge Kyle Larson or Hendrick Motorsports.Ĭhase Briscoe is 26th in the standings, Custer is 27th and Almirola is 28th. ![]() Harvick had four wins at this point last season, but he’s led only 39 laps this year. ![]() SHR is having a terrible year with all four Cup drivers winless through 17 races. It is possible Harvick really didn’t see the co-owner of Stewart-Haas Racing but it also is possible his response was his way of sending a message: Stewart has been everywhere but with his NASCAR team and everybody is talking about his absence. When told Stewart was indeed at the track, the winner of nine races last year said only: “Oh, good.” “Was he here?” Harvick asked after Sunday’s race. The boss leaned toward his star driver, but the interaction was so brief it’s not clear Harvick even knew who it was. By the time Stewart made it to the front of the grid to greet pole-sitter Aric Almirola and doubled back to say hello to Kevin Harvick, well, Harvick’s window net was already being latched. Everybody wants to chat.Ī long conversation with driver Cole Custer and the global head of Ford Performance Motorsports, a valued partner, cost him valuable minutes before the first Cup race at Nashville Superspeedway. But he’s Tony Stewart and he hasn’t been at the track in almost 16 months. Tony Stewart tried to do a grid walk at his first Cup Series race since the start of the pandemic.
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