Indianapolis – The 2010 season for Tony Stewart Racing will look a lot different than the one that just ended with championships in both the World of Outlaws (WoO) and USAC Sprints. Kraig Kinser is out of his WoO ride, Tracy Hines is out of his USAC Sprint ride and the USAC Midgets are gone.
Tony talked about the changes today at Homestead-Miami Speedway as he prepared for the final race of the NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
“We’re going to scale our USAC program back to two Silver Crown cars and one dirt Sprint Car. We’re not going to compete in the pavement Sprint Car races, but we’ll only have one team there and we won’t have any Midget teams next year.
“On the Outlaw side, Donny is obviously coming back next year and on Kraig’s side, the hard part was we waited to a part of the season that’s kind of hard for him, helping him get a ride for next year, which we’re doing everything we can to help with that. It was kind of hard for both of us. We saw some improvement early fall that we thought was going to continue and it fell back off at the end of the year. So we’re just trying to find someone that we feel like is a better fit. ”
“Kraig and Donny ran two different packages, chassis-wise and engine-wise and we’re trying to figure out how to bring that together where both guys are running the same chassis and same engine package. So we’re trying to find a driver that likes the J&J car like Donny does and somebody that we feel will be an asset to Donny as a teammate and be able to work together with him. So that’s what we’re working toward.”