The elder Stewart, no stranger to circle-track competition, has come down with the drag-racing bug, just like his multi-series master son and appears to be planning his debut on the dragstrip in 2025 in the sportsman-level Lucas Oil Drag Racing Series.

Tony Stewart revealed Tuesday he will run the NHRA Top Fuel dragster next season in place of his wife, Leah Pruett, as he did in 2024, per KellyCrandall of RACER/ESPN. Stewart announced the news during an interview with Epartrade.

NASCAR legend Tony Stewart is set to sensationally return to racing once again in 2025 as wife Leah Pruett looks after their newborn son

Tony Stewart may be getting out of the NASCAR business after the end of Stewart-Haas Racing, but he isn't finished with racing as a whole. The three-time Cup Series champion will be taking his talents to NHRA drag racing,

Tony Stewart said Tuesday that his father, Nelson Stewart, is interested in running NHRA Sportsman events in the future, according to Kelly Crandall of RACER/ESPN. Nelson Stewart, 86 years young, races legends cars and notably took the checkered flag in the Outlaw Legends race at the Bartholomew County 4-H Fair in June 2023.