The sting of losing a championship is not a new feeling for Tony Stewart. Of course, there were plenty of glorious highs felt along with the losses — including Stewart’s USAC Triple Crown season in 1995, when he became the first driver to win three national USAC championships (midgets, sprint cars and Silver Crown) in the same year. “I could see that Matt (Hagan) and I winning was more than just a band-aid,” said Pruett, who is also Stewart’s wife. “I’ve been helping him in the very beginning, as everyone knows, about how to drag race and everything about that. “Tough weekend at the Vegas Nats,” Stewart wrote on X.

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