His eponymous team, Tony Stewart Racing (TSR), will field two fulltime entries -- one in Top Fuel for nine-time event winner Leah Pruett and one in Funny Car for 39-time event winner Matt Hagan. The manufacturer and the team's technical alliance associate, along with corporate partners, will be announced at a later date.Smoke has been quite appreciative of the racing action that takes place in the NHRA and was quite excited at the prospect. How things will turn out for the 52-year-old in the competition remains to be seen. ... Leah Pruett announced that she would be taking part in one final race before stepping away for a while. That decision must have been ...Pruett, who won last year in Denver to give Tony Stewart Racing its first Top Fuel win, is after her first victory at the facility. She qualified well at the four-wide race last spring, taking the ...Dec 7, 2023 · Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Leah Pruett, also known as Mrs. Tony Stewart, leads the Top Fuel ranks for the first time in her career after earning her second win of the season this past weekend at Texas Motor Speedway near ...Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Leah Pruett (Top Fuel), Robert Hight (Funny Car) and Erica Enders (Pro Stock) all qualified No. 1 at the eighth of 21 races during the 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season.New team. New marriage. New shop. Leah and Tony talked about prepping for the 2022 season and living in a motorhome in front of their shop while on the NHRA on FOX stage at the 2021 PRI Show.The motorsports duo of Leah Pruett and Tony Stewart made major news today regarding their respective racing careers, with Pruett announcing she will temporarily step away from driving duties in the 2024 NHRA Mission Foods Pro Drag Racing Series to focus on starting a family with husband Stewart, who will race the full season in her place in the Tony Stewart Racing (TSR) team's 11,000 ...NHRA standout Leah Pruett, driver of the 11,000-horsepower Dodge Top Fuel dragster, is stepping aside from racing in 2024 to focus on starting a family with husband Tony Stewart.Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Stewart Wife Leaves Drag Racing: Leah Pruett’s decision to step away from the adrenaline-fueled world of drag racing, bidding farewell to a career marked by speed and competition, has sparked conversations within the racing community. As she embarks on the journey of motherhood, leaving behind a trail of victories and unfinished business on ...Kalitta, a six-time championship runner-up, powered to a 3.67 to beat Pruett’s 3.72 and prevent her from joining her Tony Stewart Racing Funny Car teammate Matt Hagan as a 2023 champ.It's not been an easy move for Pruett, according to Stewart. "The first two events were a little rough," Stewart said during the NHRA 4-Wide Nationals at zMAX Dragway. "Gainesville was bad ...Last month, Tony Stewart and Leah Pruett announced a massive shift in their lives. To start a family, the power couple decided that Stewart would replace Pruett in the NHRA Top Fuel class competition. And now, with her car in steady and trusted hands, it seems Leah Pruett is ready to hand over her duties.Upd: Oct 15, 2021, 1:08 AM. Watch: Tony Stewart to join NHRA as team owner in 2022. Tony Stewart Racing will field two fulltime entries in 2022 - one in Top Fuel for nine-time event winner Leah Pruett and one in Funny Car for 39-time event winner Matt Hagan. Stewart, 50, has been a regular at NHRA events since last year when he and Pruett ...— The motorsports duo of Leah Pruett and Tony Stewart made major news at the annual PRI Show in Indianapolis today regarding their respective racing careers. Pruett announced she will temporarily step away from driving duties in the upcoming NHRA Mission Foods Pro Drag Racing Series to focus on starting a family with husband Stewart, who will ...Doug Kalitta, also a semifinal loser in the Callout, sits No. 3 with 3.723 with Leah Pruett (3.724), Clay Millican (3.728), Antron Brown (3.734), Callout champion Josh Hart (3.748), and callout ...Thu, Dec 7, 2023 · 2 min read. Tony Stewart and Leah Pruett were married in 2021. (Photo by Jeff Speer/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images) Tony Stewart will race full time as a Top Fuel driver in ...Denver Top Fuel winner Leah Pruett discusses the importance of her Top Fuel win at her sponsor's event while ND Editor Phil Burgess and columnist Joe Costello help frame the season with their ...Team owner Tony Stewart stands alongside the dragster of his wife and driver, NHRA top fuel driver Leah Pruett, during the Arizona Nationals at Wild Horse Pass Motorsports Park in Chandler, March ...Today, husband and wife Stewart and Pruett announced that Pruett will be stepping out of her Dodge/SRT Direct Connection top Fuel dragster "temporarily" to focus on starting a family. The racing ...Racing legend Tony Stewart tells us he's honored to step in and race for his wife, NHRA champ Leah Pruett, in 2024 as the couple prepares to have a baby!Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...The 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series kicks off this weekend (March 9-12). It's the NHRA's first season-opening event to be held at the famed Gainesville Raceway in Florida. Dodge//SRT and Mopar are there celebrating the one-year anniversary of their partnership with Tony Stewart Racing (TSR), with Leah Pruett in Top Fuel and Matt ...As Democrats drop out and Republicans join the fray, the race is starting to take shape. It’s time to finally start paying attention to the 2020 US presidential primaries. As Democ...Top Fuel driver Leah Pruett’s first NHRA national-event came 14 years ago at Pomona, Calif., at the 2009 NHRA Finals—in a Funny Car. And it was anything but funny. Independent team owners John ...With a full returning crew, a “normal” off-season, and an esprit de corps that may be unrivaled in the pits, Leah Pruett and her band of merry men will be on the rise in 2023. Prock’s ...At the time of writing, Leah Pruett is not pregnant. However, in December 2023, she announced that she would step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with her NASCAR Hall of Fame husband, Tony Stewart. For the upcoming season, Tony will step into the driver's seat of her Top Fuel dragster. Article ...Leah Pruett (Top Fuel), Erica Enders (Pro Stock) and Angelle Sampey (Pro Stock Motorcycle) also qualified No. 1 at the 12th of 22 races during the 2022 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series season ...NHRA Top Fuel driver Leah Pruett takes off the start line while her competitor, Shawn Langdon, could not start due to oil leak at the Dodge Power Brokers NHRA Mile-High Nationals at Bandimere ...Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Fame husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel dragster that Pruett drove to a career-best third-place finish in the NHRA standings this year. Pruett and Stewart married just over two …Leah Pruett has decided to step away. Leah Pruett has announced her decision to step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with her husband, Tony Stewart, a NASCAR Hall of Famer. Stewart will replace Pruett in the Top Fuel dragster for the upcoming season.NHRA/National Dragster. Angelle Sampey quickly is getting the hang of four-wheeled racing. In just her second race in the Top Alcohol Dragster class, the three-time NHRA Pro Stock Motorcycle ...Prock scored his lone Top Fuel victory on the way to earning his 2019 NHRA rookie-of-the-year status. Austin Prock's Top Fuel dragster sits idle at the massive John Force Racing shop at ...Leah Pruett says there's no reason to panic, there's not been a change in ownership. Leah Stewart Racing, or LSR, is actually an inside joke that resulted from some friendly wagering within ...When a person devotes 27 years of their life to something it becomes a part of them, and taking a step back from it is never easy as NHRA competitor Leah Pruett is discovering this year. The 35-year-old Pruett started in Junior Dragsters at age 8 and she's spent her life climbing the drag racing ladder, often thrashing to find sponsors to ...2021 Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) Champion. 2020 NASCAR Hall of Fame Inductee. Three-time NASCAR Cup Series Champion (2002, 2005, 2011) 1997 Indy Racing League Champion. 1995 USAC Triple ...Dec 7, 2023 · Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Famer husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Dec 8, 2023 · With no pressure coming from husband Tony Stewart, Leah Pruett said she made a choice months ago to remove herself from her Top Fuel dragster at the end of the 2023 NHRA season and concentrate on ...Drag Illustrated. Published. July 21, 2022. Leah Pruett scored the first NHRA Top Fuel win for her and husband Tony Stewart's professional drag racing team this past weekend in Denver, Colorado, at Bandimere Speedway during the Mile-High Nationals. As significant for their team as this most recent win was - along with teammate Matt Hagan ...Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Fame husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...The 2023 NHRA Camping World Drag Racing Series kicks off this weekend (March 9-12). It's the NHRA's first season-opening event to be held at the famed Gainesville Raceway in Florida. Dodge//SRT and Mopar are there celebrating the one-year anniversary of their partnership with Tony Stewart Racing (TSR), with Leah Pruett in Top Fuel and Matt ...Leah Pruett will step away from the NHRA drag racing series in 2024 to focus on starting a family with Tony Stewart. Her NASCAR Hall of Fame husband will replace her next season in the Top Fuel ...Big news for Tony Stewart Racing in the NHRA. Smoke is taking over for his wife, Leah Pruett, in the Top Fuel category. Stewart raced in the Top Alcohol Dragster category in 2023. However, 2024 brings another new challenge for the three-time NASCAR champion. With Tony Stewart and Leah Pruett attempting to start a family, things are …Leah Pruett is tossing the keys to her Dodge/SRT Top Fuel dragster to her husband Tony Stewart for the 2024 season. Stewart had been in Chicago for the NHRA drag race at Route 66 Raceway a few ...