1
00:00:00,292 --> 00:00:01,572
(Metallic sound)

2
00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:07,000
Downloaded from
YTS.MX

3
00:00:04,670 --> 00:00:05,790
(Lion roaring)

4
00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:13,000
Official YIFY movies site:
YTS.MX

5
00:00:20,483 --> 00:00:21,858
- [Announcer] All right,
ladies and gentlemen.

6
00:00:21,858 --> 00:00:22,691
On the count of three,

7
00:00:22,691 --> 00:00:24,775
I want you to tell me who you
think's gonna win this race.

8
00:00:24,775 --> 00:00:26,858
Ready? One, two, three!

9
00:00:26,858 --> 00:00:30,025
(crowd yells faintly)

10
00:00:35,108 --> 00:00:36,650
I think they all have a good chance,

11
00:00:36,650 --> 00:00:38,691
but we're gonna find out in 25 lap.

12
00:00:41,316 --> 00:00:42,775
Canandaigua, are you ready?

13
00:00:43,941 --> 00:00:46,150
Wipe the visor, adjust
the five-point harness.

14
00:00:46,150 --> 00:00:48,150
Grandpa, take a Viagra pill!

15
00:00:48,150 --> 00:00:50,691
It's time to get it on!

16
00:00:50,691 --> 00:00:51,691
Race fans,

17
00:00:51,691 --> 00:00:54,191
it's showtime!

18
00:00:54,191 --> 00:00:57,525
(trumpet fanfare plays)

19
00:00:59,066 --> 00:01:02,233
(race cars whooshing)

20
00:01:14,525 --> 00:01:15,983
And Stewart's got a head of steam.

21
00:01:15,983 --> 00:01:18,775
He's gonna go to work on
the Jeff Cook, number 10.

22
00:01:18,775 --> 00:01:20,775
As Stewart has Kevin Ward Jr.

23
00:01:20,775 --> 00:01:22,358
right there in front of him now.

24
00:01:23,532 --> 00:01:26,532
(quiet piano music)

25
00:01:48,025 --> 00:01:50,358
Oh! And we've got Ward into the wall!

26
00:01:50,358 --> 00:01:51,608
Ward into the wall!

27
00:01:51,608 --> 00:01:54,191
He bounces it over the cushion.

28
00:01:56,566 --> 00:01:59,566
(quiet piano music)

29
00:02:08,233 --> 00:02:10,525
And Kevin Ward's coming out of his car.

30
00:02:10,525 --> 00:02:12,233
He is looking for somebody.

31
00:02:15,775 --> 00:02:17,775
He is looking for...

32
00:02:25,323 --> 00:02:27,650
I believe it was Tony Stewart.

33
00:02:29,275 --> 00:02:31,983
- [Speaker] Red, red, red, red, red, red!

34
00:02:31,983 --> 00:02:33,316
- [Spectator] Oh, he hit him!

35
00:02:33,316 --> 00:02:35,650
Tony Stewart just hit that guy, Alex!

36
00:02:35,650 --> 00:02:38,191
Tony Stewart just hit that guy!

37
00:02:38,191 --> 00:02:40,858
(crowd screams)

38
00:02:44,788 --> 00:02:48,038
(calming guitar music)

39
00:03:00,066 --> 00:03:02,566
(jack clinks)

40
00:03:10,441 --> 00:03:13,191
(motor whirring)

41
00:03:37,066 --> 00:03:39,816
(gravel scrapes)

42
00:03:41,858 --> 00:03:45,108
(twangy country music)

43
00:03:57,650 --> 00:04:00,150
(engine revs)

44
00:04:18,024 --> 00:04:20,940
(race car rumbles)

45
00:04:27,316 --> 00:04:29,400
- [Announcer] ...an issue
for Martin Truex Jr.

46
00:04:29,400 --> 00:04:32,400
He immediately said something is wrong.

47
00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:36,608
And now Cole Pearn said, "We
have the tires switched."

48
00:04:36,608 --> 00:04:38,900
They messed it up on pit road.

49
00:04:38,900 --> 00:04:40,816
It's the right front and left front

50
00:04:40,816 --> 00:04:42,191
that are switched on the 19-

51
00:04:42,191 --> 00:04:44,025
- [Narrator] In tiny
Port Leyden, New York,

52
00:04:44,025 --> 00:04:46,983
the number 13 and Ward Racing

53
00:04:46,983 --> 00:04:50,150
are as familiar at local sprint car tracks

54
00:04:50,150 --> 00:04:53,566
as any of the names of
the stock car champions

55
00:04:53,566 --> 00:04:55,691
running on Sunday TV.

56
00:04:55,691 --> 00:04:58,191
(garage door squeaks)

57
00:04:58,191 --> 00:05:01,525
Half the town could grab a
Kevin Ward Jr. race trophy

58
00:05:01,525 --> 00:05:03,150
off the garage wall,

59
00:05:03,150 --> 00:05:05,900
and there'd still be plenty left behind.

60
00:05:05,900 --> 00:05:07,191
- [Kevin Sr.] I counted them yesterday.

61
00:05:07,191 --> 00:05:09,358
There's 396 in here.

62
00:05:09,358 --> 00:05:10,941
- [Chris Halsne] 396 trophies?

63
00:05:10,941 --> 00:05:11,900
- Yep.

64
00:05:11,900 --> 00:05:14,066
This is the first year that he raced.

65
00:05:14,066 --> 00:05:16,108
He won 17 out of 19 races.

66
00:05:16,108 --> 00:05:20,316
And then the second year,
he won 16 out of 19.

67
00:05:20,316 --> 00:05:23,275
And that's all the trophies
up there on the top.

68
00:05:23,275 --> 00:05:25,191
- It was not even an option for him.

69
00:05:25,191 --> 00:05:27,316
It's like, "Well, I'm
sticking with racing."

70
00:05:27,316 --> 00:05:29,733
So he like, basically that's what he did.

71
00:05:29,733 --> 00:05:30,650
That's where his love was.

72
00:05:30,650 --> 00:05:32,816
That's where his passion was, racing,

73
00:05:32,816 --> 00:05:34,525
and that's where he did.

74
00:05:34,525 --> 00:05:36,775
Every weekend, they were gone racing.

75
00:05:36,775 --> 00:05:40,108
(child yelling happily)

76
00:05:41,400 --> 00:05:44,150
(motor rumbling)

77
00:05:46,358 --> 00:05:50,525
(announcer speaking indistinctly)

78
00:05:52,316 --> 00:05:55,858
- I guess from as young
as, it may sound weird,

79
00:05:55,858 --> 00:05:57,900
but as the young as seven months old,

80
00:05:57,900 --> 00:06:01,150
I knew he, you know, he liked,
motors didn't scare him.

81
00:06:01,150 --> 00:06:03,858
You know, some kids, you
start a motor around them

82
00:06:03,858 --> 00:06:04,858
and they're gonna run the other way.

83
00:06:04,858 --> 00:06:07,025
Where, you know, he hears a motor,

84
00:06:07,025 --> 00:06:08,150
he'd run to the motor.

85
00:06:12,691 --> 00:06:16,108
(child chatters happily)

86
00:06:18,775 --> 00:06:19,941
Four years old.

87
00:06:19,941 --> 00:06:21,816
We had the dirt track out back,

88
00:06:21,816 --> 00:06:26,108
and I showed him how to
drive, or run the go-kart,

89
00:06:26,983 --> 00:06:30,025
and it was a very easy starting go-kart.

90
00:06:30,025 --> 00:06:32,358
I showed him, you know, how
to put gas in and stuff,

91
00:06:32,358 --> 00:06:34,441
and he used to go out at
eight o'clock in the morning

92
00:06:34,441 --> 00:06:37,316
and ride the go-kart till
eight o'clock at night.

93
00:06:39,816 --> 00:06:42,650
(go-kart rattles)

94
00:06:45,275 --> 00:06:47,900
I don't think I ever seen him
once ride it across the lawn.

95
00:06:47,900 --> 00:06:49,983
It was always around the track out back.

96
00:06:49,983 --> 00:06:54,150
And he would go, sheesh, I
couldn't imagine how many laps

97
00:06:54,150 --> 00:06:56,691
in the 12-hour period around out back.

98
00:06:57,941 --> 00:07:00,233
- I started racing
go-karts when I was eight,

99
00:07:00,233 --> 00:07:02,691
and I met Kevin

100
00:07:02,691 --> 00:07:03,983
when I was nine.

101
00:07:07,400 --> 00:07:08,358
We grew up on a farm.

102
00:07:08,358 --> 00:07:11,441
We didn't really have a lot
of money to spend on racing.

103
00:07:12,441 --> 00:07:14,691
And Kevin kinda, out of the blue,

104
00:07:15,566 --> 00:07:18,566
just kind of, whether he
noticed me or whatever,

105
00:07:18,566 --> 00:07:19,858
he just started helping out,

106
00:07:19,858 --> 00:07:23,316
like just, you know, not
long after I met the guy.

107
00:07:23,316 --> 00:07:26,441
And we blew an engine up
at the racetrack one night

108
00:07:26,441 --> 00:07:29,358
and he called my Dad and he said,

109
00:07:29,358 --> 00:07:30,816
"I got a gallon of oil for you.

110
00:07:30,816 --> 00:07:32,108
It's gonna cost you $100 bucks,

111
00:07:32,108 --> 00:07:33,983
but you're gonna get a
brand new motor with it."

112
00:07:33,983 --> 00:07:36,441
And I said, "Kevin, you
don't have to do that."

113
00:07:36,441 --> 00:07:38,483
He said, "I know I don't have to do that,

114
00:07:38,483 --> 00:07:40,316
but I'm gonna do that
because I wanna do that

115
00:07:40,316 --> 00:07:41,358
and I can do that."

116
00:07:41,358 --> 00:07:44,483
- My brother and I always had
a really close relationship.

117
00:07:45,816 --> 00:07:47,150
You know, like we didn't argue much.

118
00:07:47,150 --> 00:07:48,150
We were six years apart.

119
00:07:48,150 --> 00:07:50,483
So by the time I was older,
it was more of a friendship

120
00:07:50,483 --> 00:07:52,983
than it ever really was
like a sibling rivalry,

121
00:07:52,983 --> 00:07:54,858
or anything like that.

122
00:07:54,858 --> 00:07:56,983
I used to race, so we had that in common.

123
00:07:56,983 --> 00:07:59,525
I absolutely loved
going to watch him race.

124
00:07:59,525 --> 00:08:01,941
One of his go-karts, his play go-kart.

125
00:08:01,941 --> 00:08:04,400
And this is the driver, Kevin Ward.

126
00:08:05,316 --> 00:08:06,650
Number 13.

127
00:08:06,650 --> 00:08:07,566
- [Child] Number 13.

128
00:08:07,566 --> 00:08:08,650
- It's right here, it's 13!

129
00:08:08,650 --> 00:08:11,275
This right here is Kevin
Ward's racing go-kart.

130
00:08:12,566 --> 00:08:14,816
When I found out I was having a boy,

131
00:08:14,816 --> 00:08:17,400
then, you know, everything was great.

132
00:08:17,400 --> 00:08:18,858
He was gonna have a nephew,

133
00:08:18,858 --> 00:08:20,650
they were gonna start a Ward Racing Team.

134
00:08:20,650 --> 00:08:24,733
At the time, we actually,
when my son about turned one,

135
00:08:24,733 --> 00:08:26,691
we moved down next to my Dad's shop.

136
00:08:26,691 --> 00:08:29,358
So every day, when Kevin would
go to work on the race car,

137
00:08:29,358 --> 00:08:32,482
he'd actually come over and
grab Landon and take him over

138
00:08:32,482 --> 00:08:35,066
so they could do stuff
together all the time.

139
00:08:35,066 --> 00:08:37,275
And that's what I really
loved most about him

140
00:08:37,275 --> 00:08:38,941
is how much he did care for his nephew.

141
00:08:38,941 --> 00:08:40,566
You know, he wanted him to be a part

142
00:08:40,566 --> 00:08:41,982
of the whole racing thing.

143
00:08:41,982 --> 00:08:43,191
(door closes)

144
00:08:43,191 --> 00:08:45,941
- Grandpa, guess who just won on the race?

145
00:08:45,941 --> 00:08:46,858
- [Kevin Sr.] Who?

146
00:08:46,858 --> 00:08:47,691
- Kyle Busch.

147
00:08:47,691 --> 00:08:48,650
- [Kevin Sr.] Did he really?

148
00:08:48,650 --> 00:08:50,066
- Yes.
- [Kevin Sr.] Oh, boy.

149
00:08:50,066 --> 00:08:51,400
He was 14 years old,

150
00:08:51,400 --> 00:08:53,816
and he was supposed to be
16 to be in this class.

151
00:08:53,816 --> 00:08:57,858
But like I said, I helped,
I laid the track down there.

152
00:08:57,858 --> 00:09:00,608
So they let him run the opens there.

153
00:09:00,608 --> 00:09:02,275
- [Chris] And then he ends up beating you.

154
00:09:02,275 --> 00:09:03,108
- Yeah.

155
00:09:05,150 --> 00:09:07,650
(engine revs)

156
00:09:14,566 --> 00:09:17,816
- [Narrator] By the time Kevin
Ward Jr. was 17 years old,

157
00:09:17,816 --> 00:09:22,816
he'd racked up 250 wins and
six championships in go-karts,

158
00:09:23,316 --> 00:09:26,233
was a two-time micro sprint champion,

159
00:09:26,233 --> 00:09:30,025
and had been named the 360
Sprint Car Rookie of the Year.

160
00:09:34,566 --> 00:09:38,275
He still owns the track record
at the Adirondack Speedway

161
00:09:38,275 --> 00:09:40,066
for the fastest lap ever,

162
00:09:40,066 --> 00:09:44,608
13.5 seconds at 135 miles per hour.

163
00:09:50,691 --> 00:09:52,941
- I was always nervous, at every race.

164
00:09:52,941 --> 00:09:56,358
You know, I sat there just
like hoping that, you know,

165
00:09:56,358 --> 00:09:58,983
nothing was gonna happen,
that he was gonna be okay.

166
00:09:58,983 --> 00:10:01,900
And ultimately, when it
came right down to it,

167
00:10:01,900 --> 00:10:03,025
it was his passion for life.

168
00:10:03,025 --> 00:10:04,816
It's what he loved doing.

169
00:10:04,816 --> 00:10:07,358
I wasn't gonna be the one
to take that away from him.

170
00:10:08,483 --> 00:10:10,983
(engine revs)

171
00:10:15,358 --> 00:10:17,400
- We live in a small community here.

172
00:10:18,400 --> 00:10:21,025
They know that Kevin lived for racin'.

173
00:10:21,025 --> 00:10:22,316
I'm sure there's a handful of people

174
00:10:22,316 --> 00:10:27,150
that don't agree that Kevin
was a great kid, but he was.

175
00:10:28,108 --> 00:10:30,025
He was a hard worker,

176
00:10:30,025 --> 00:10:31,233
had a heart of gold.

177
00:10:31,233 --> 00:10:32,441
Kevin had a lot of things

178
00:10:32,441 --> 00:10:35,733
that a lot of the other kids
around here didn't have,

179
00:10:35,733 --> 00:10:37,983
you know, but you'd never know it.

180
00:10:37,983 --> 00:10:40,900
You know, it just, that's
what type of kid he was.

181
00:10:40,900 --> 00:10:44,066
- From 10 years old to this day,

182
00:10:44,066 --> 00:10:48,025
I've always looked up to
the whole family, you know.

183
00:10:48,025 --> 00:10:50,566
Kevin is such a good man.

184
00:10:50,566 --> 00:10:52,150
His wife is phenomenal.

185
00:10:52,150 --> 00:10:54,858
They've helped a lot of
people in the community.

186
00:10:54,858 --> 00:10:57,983
They've helped a lot of people
in the racing community.

187
00:11:00,441 --> 00:11:03,608
(contemplative music)

188
00:11:14,108 --> 00:11:18,108
(contemplative music continues)

189
00:11:28,275 --> 00:11:29,650
- [Documentarian] Is this his room?

190
00:11:29,650 --> 00:11:31,233
- [Kevin Sr.] Yes.

191
00:11:31,233 --> 00:11:32,066
Yep.

192
00:11:35,025 --> 00:11:39,441
Pretty much the way it was
when he left that morning.

193
00:11:39,441 --> 00:11:40,733
Clothes on the back,

194
00:11:42,566 --> 00:11:43,983
the pile over there.

195
00:11:48,025 --> 00:11:50,566
Yeah, his bed's all made up.

196
00:11:50,566 --> 00:11:52,650
And his mother didn't make it, he made it.

197
00:11:53,816 --> 00:11:55,233
That was house rules and

198
00:11:56,650 --> 00:11:57,650
that's what he done.

199
00:12:00,441 --> 00:12:02,108
- [Documentarian] How
hard is it to be in here?

200
00:12:02,108 --> 00:12:02,983
- Really hard.

201
00:12:02,983 --> 00:12:03,941
- [Documentarian] Yeah.

202
00:12:06,275 --> 00:12:08,025
- Yeah, we don't come in here much.

203
00:12:17,775 --> 00:12:19,150
(energetic music)

204
00:12:19,150 --> 00:12:20,691
- [Announcer] Here we go. Final time.

205
00:12:20,691 --> 00:12:22,525
- [Announcer] Big crash
behind the race leader,

206
00:12:22,525 --> 00:12:23,358
Tony Stewart!

207
00:12:23,358 --> 00:12:25,483
That's gonna allow Smoke to pull away.

208
00:12:25,483 --> 00:12:26,941
What's gonna happen behind him?

209
00:12:26,941 --> 00:12:28,233
Can Burton get there?

210
00:12:28,233 --> 00:12:29,316
No, he can't!

211
00:12:29,316 --> 00:12:31,983
Tony Stewart wins it at Daytona!

212
00:12:35,025 --> 00:12:37,608
(crowd cheers)

213
00:12:39,983 --> 00:12:42,983
- [Announcer] Tony Stewart
wins at Martinsville!

214
00:12:45,900 --> 00:12:48,483
(upbeat music)

215
00:12:51,358 --> 00:12:53,066
- [Announcer] Tony Stewart wins!

216
00:12:56,525 --> 00:13:01,400
- Tony's a guy with old-fashioned,
seat-of-the-pants feel.

217
00:13:01,400 --> 00:13:04,150
And I think that's what separated him

218
00:13:04,150 --> 00:13:08,108
from drivers who didn't
come up the way he did.

219
00:13:09,900 --> 00:13:13,233
He's a great natural talent to begin with,

220
00:13:13,233 --> 00:13:15,691
and he's a throwback to
an earlier generation.

221
00:13:15,691 --> 00:13:18,650
Dan Gurney, A.J. Foyt, Mario Andretti,

222
00:13:18,650 --> 00:13:21,858
all who took pride in being able to win

223
00:13:21,858 --> 00:13:23,858
in anything with four wheels.

224
00:13:23,858 --> 00:13:26,275
- [Announcer] Yeah, that
14 is just too strong

225
00:13:26,275 --> 00:13:27,525
up off the bottom of the corner.

226
00:13:27,525 --> 00:13:30,650
Jimmie tried everything he
could, but 14 is just stout.

227
00:13:34,483 --> 00:13:35,316
- I'm Monte Dutton,

228
00:13:35,316 --> 00:13:38,066
and I wrote as a beat
reporter and columnist

229
00:13:38,066 --> 00:13:40,566
about racing for 20 years.

230
00:13:40,566 --> 00:13:44,566
During Tony's rookie season,
we sort of hit it off.

231
00:13:44,566 --> 00:13:47,400
And so I decided to
write a book about him.

232
00:13:47,400 --> 00:13:51,025
"Rebel with a Cause: A
Season with Tony Stewart".

233
00:13:51,025 --> 00:13:52,775
He was personally challenged

234
00:13:52,775 --> 00:13:54,400
and it was,

235
00:13:54,400 --> 00:13:56,983
it was what made him happy

236
00:13:56,983 --> 00:13:59,733
in an otherwise turbulent life.

237
00:13:59,733 --> 00:14:02,525
He did it for fun, you know.

238
00:14:02,525 --> 00:14:05,066
The same way that some people paint,

239
00:14:05,066 --> 00:14:06,650
some people play guitar.

240
00:14:06,650 --> 00:14:08,275
None of them are gonna win Grammys

241
00:14:08,275 --> 00:14:11,275
or have their work hung in the Louvre,

242
00:14:11,275 --> 00:14:13,400
but that's what makes them happy.

243
00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:15,566
- And you won it, and the championship.

244
00:14:15,566 --> 00:14:17,150
What's the emotion right now?

245
00:14:17,150 --> 00:14:19,275
- Oh God, thank the Lord for this one.

246
00:14:19,275 --> 00:14:21,983
- [Narrator] A three-time
NASCAR Cup Series champion,

247
00:14:21,983 --> 00:14:24,108
Anthony Tony "Smoke" Stewart

248
00:14:24,108 --> 00:14:27,233
is one of the most successful
drivers in history.

249
00:14:27,233 --> 00:14:31,650
He's made around $130
million in prize money.

250
00:14:35,900 --> 00:14:38,025
- [Announcer] Down the back straightaway.

251
00:14:38,025 --> 00:14:39,858
Tony Stewart trying to hang on

252
00:14:39,858 --> 00:14:41,566
and get his very first win ever

253
00:14:41,566 --> 00:14:43,400
at the Track Too Tough to Tame.

254
00:14:43,400 --> 00:14:46,733
- [Narrator] He won NASCAR's
Xfinity opening race series

255
00:14:46,733 --> 00:14:50,691
at the Daytona International
Speedway seven times.

256
00:14:50,691 --> 00:14:52,608
He's been inducted into nearly

257
00:14:52,608 --> 00:14:55,066
every race car hall of fame imaginable.

258
00:14:55,066 --> 00:14:57,025
- [Announcer] Stewart
takes the win at Talladega!

259
00:14:57,025 --> 00:14:58,358
Coming down the front straightaway,

260
00:14:58,358 --> 00:14:59,941
it's gonna be all Tony Stewart!

261
00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:02,275
- [Announcer] They're going down at 11.

262
00:15:02,275 --> 00:15:03,566
Stewart just leans on him,

263
00:15:03,566 --> 00:15:05,691
and keeps leaning and keep leaning.

264
00:15:05,691 --> 00:15:07,525
- [Narrator] His acumen for driving

265
00:15:07,525 --> 00:15:09,441
has occasionally been overshadowed

266
00:15:09,441 --> 00:15:12,025
by his reputation as a hothead.

267
00:15:12,025 --> 00:15:14,025
- (bleep) (bleep)

268
00:15:14,025 --> 00:15:14,858
I don't know what he did to you,

269
00:15:14,858 --> 00:15:16,608
but I know you were mad at him.

270
00:15:16,608 --> 00:15:19,566
(bleep) somebody else,
you two right there.

271
00:15:19,566 --> 00:15:20,400
- Hey, shut up!

272
00:15:20,400 --> 00:15:21,233
- Hey! Hey!

273
00:15:21,233 --> 00:15:23,441
(man screams)

274
00:15:23,441 --> 00:15:26,566
(crowd yelling)

275
00:15:26,566 --> 00:15:28,566
- [Narrator] He's publicly punched fans

276
00:15:28,566 --> 00:15:30,275
and competitors alike.

277
00:15:30,275 --> 00:15:32,150
- [Newscaster] The man
confronting the fan in the stands

278
00:15:32,150 --> 00:15:34,483
is NASCAR superstar Tony Stewart.

279
00:15:34,483 --> 00:15:36,108
Stewart, who's been assisting the crew

280
00:15:36,108 --> 00:15:38,025
maintain the track all week long,

281
00:15:38,025 --> 00:15:39,775
was being heckled by this man,

282
00:15:39,775 --> 00:15:42,566
Tulsa County Sheriff's Corporal Kyle Hess.

283
00:15:42,566 --> 00:15:44,691
Stewart went to share words with Hess

284
00:15:44,691 --> 00:15:45,941
and the following ensued.

285
00:15:46,775 --> 00:15:49,733
(crowd yelling)

286
00:15:49,733 --> 00:15:51,691
- I always thought with Tony that,

287
00:15:52,650 --> 00:15:54,900
you couldn't prove it with a camera,

288
00:15:54,900 --> 00:15:57,566
but when Tony was in a bad mood,

289
00:15:57,566 --> 00:15:59,358
his eyes looked black as coal to me.

290
00:15:59,358 --> 00:16:02,400
It was like a pall descended over him.

291
00:16:02,400 --> 00:16:04,900
(crowd roars)

292
00:16:09,025 --> 00:16:11,775
He is not one to cool down

293
00:16:11,775 --> 00:16:14,191
and call tomorrow and warm it all over.

294
00:16:14,191 --> 00:16:17,150
Tony is a guy who, if he doesn't like

295
00:16:17,150 --> 00:16:21,150
how you shoved him
around on the racetrack,

296
00:16:21,150 --> 00:16:22,233
when he gets outta the car,

297
00:16:22,233 --> 00:16:24,566
he's gonna get this straight right now.

298
00:16:24,566 --> 00:16:27,566
He's just, what's that terrible cliché

299
00:16:27,566 --> 00:16:30,775
that I'm gonna regret ever saying,

300
00:16:30,775 --> 00:16:33,316
"That's just Tony being Tony"?

301
00:16:33,316 --> 00:16:37,066
- [Announcer] And boy, Tony
Stewart is after Logano.

302
00:16:37,066 --> 00:16:39,691
- "That's just Shaq being Shaq."

303
00:16:39,691 --> 00:16:42,150
"That's just so and so."

304
00:16:42,150 --> 00:16:46,150
And so it becomes a
rationalization for misbehaving.

305
00:16:46,150 --> 00:16:49,941
But, you know, sports is full of clichés.

306
00:16:51,108 --> 00:16:52,691
- [Announcer] This is them
coming off of pit road

307
00:16:52,691 --> 00:16:54,983
after they had been warned to settle down.

308
00:16:54,983 --> 00:16:56,275
- [Commentator] When you leave pit road,

309
00:16:56,275 --> 00:16:58,275
you can't go above the yellow line.

310
00:16:58,275 --> 00:16:59,441
- [Interviewer] Well,
we're here with Tony.

311
00:16:59,441 --> 00:17:01,525
All right, Tony, your
perspective, what happened?

312
00:17:01,525 --> 00:17:03,108
- Ah, the kid's an idiot.

313
00:17:03,108 --> 00:17:04,441
- [Narrator] Stewart might be most famous

314
00:17:04,441 --> 00:17:08,650
for his NASCAR success,
played out on asphalt ovals.

315
00:17:08,650 --> 00:17:12,150
But he has always kept one
foot on the dirt track,

316
00:17:12,150 --> 00:17:14,025
racing sprint cars.

317
00:17:14,025 --> 00:17:16,525
(engines rev)

318
00:17:17,525 --> 00:17:21,025
He owns a team that has won
at least 23 short track titles

319
00:17:21,025 --> 00:17:22,316
in the World of Outlaws.

320
00:17:25,733 --> 00:17:27,650
These sprint cars use big engines

321
00:17:27,650 --> 00:17:31,483
to press speeds past 150 miles per hour,

322
00:17:31,483 --> 00:17:34,108
while sliding inches from the next car

323
00:17:34,108 --> 00:17:35,733
on nearly every turn.

324
00:17:36,691 --> 00:17:40,733
Making it onto this circuit
was Kevin Ward Jr.'s dream.

325
00:17:47,400 --> 00:17:48,858
- [Announcer] Kasey
Kahne giving a nice push

326
00:17:48,858 --> 00:17:50,566
to Tony Stewart in that outside lane.

327
00:17:50,566 --> 00:17:52,816
- You know, NASCAR's nothing like we do.

328
00:17:52,816 --> 00:17:54,650
NASCAR is obviously the top tier,

329
00:17:54,650 --> 00:17:55,983
and that's where the money's at.

330
00:17:55,983 --> 00:17:57,566
(crowd cheers)

331
00:17:57,566 --> 00:17:59,566
- [Announcer] And the
fans are yelling, "Tony!"

332
00:18:00,650 --> 00:18:02,816
- It's definitely a
different style of racing.

333
00:18:02,816 --> 00:18:04,816
You know, the NASCAR,

334
00:18:04,816 --> 00:18:07,525
you know, 500 miles, 300 laps.

335
00:18:07,525 --> 00:18:08,441
You know, where we're not.

336
00:18:08,441 --> 00:18:10,400
We're 25 laps. It's a sprint race.

337
00:18:10,400 --> 00:18:11,608
It's, you know.

338
00:18:12,858 --> 00:18:15,233
It could be done in seven minutes.

339
00:18:15,233 --> 00:18:17,733
(engines rev)

340
00:18:19,066 --> 00:18:20,483
You really gotta be on top of your game,

341
00:18:20,483 --> 00:18:23,150
and you're racing, hard,

342
00:18:23,150 --> 00:18:24,733
for those 25 laps.

343
00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,816
We're not racing a hundred-lapper,

344
00:18:28,816 --> 00:18:30,316
where you can kind of take your time.

345
00:18:30,316 --> 00:18:33,983
You know, you need to hammer
down and go as fast as you can.

346
00:18:33,983 --> 00:18:35,775
So if you fall asleep during this,

347
00:18:35,775 --> 00:18:37,275
then there's something wrong with you.

348
00:18:38,316 --> 00:18:41,566
(upbeat country music)

349
00:18:43,066 --> 00:18:45,733
(fireworks pop)

350
00:18:49,566 --> 00:18:52,233
(motors rattle)

351
00:18:59,816 --> 00:19:02,275
- Sprint cars, they're extremely fast.

352
00:19:02,275 --> 00:19:04,525
The horsepower-to-weight ratio is insane.

353
00:19:04,525 --> 00:19:06,983
And it's probably why
guys like Tony Stewart

354
00:19:06,983 --> 00:19:08,191
like the sport so much,

355
00:19:08,191 --> 00:19:11,025
is because they kind of
afford you an adrenaline rush

356
00:19:11,025 --> 00:19:11,858
like no other.

357
00:19:12,775 --> 00:19:14,691
- It takes some seat
time to get used to it,

358
00:19:14,691 --> 00:19:17,775
to get comfortable enough to
feel like you have control

359
00:19:17,775 --> 00:19:19,608
so you can go into that corner, you know,

360
00:19:19,608 --> 00:19:21,608
130, 140 miles an hour,

361
00:19:21,608 --> 00:19:23,608
six inches off the next guy next to you.

362
00:19:25,400 --> 00:19:27,608
Racing with the same group of guys,

363
00:19:27,608 --> 00:19:30,108
you know who you can come
into a corner that close to,

364
00:19:30,108 --> 00:19:32,066
and you know who to stay away from, so.

365
00:19:33,358 --> 00:19:37,733
That's another fun part about it, I guess.

366
00:19:40,608 --> 00:19:42,775
- [Narrator] The anatomy
of most wing sprint cars

367
00:19:42,775 --> 00:19:43,775
is the same.

368
00:19:43,775 --> 00:19:47,733
They are stripped down to weigh
between 1200 and 1400 pounds

369
00:19:47,733 --> 00:19:49,608
and have massive engine power,

370
00:19:49,608 --> 00:19:54,400
between 500 and 900 horsepower,
depending on the class.

371
00:19:54,400 --> 00:19:56,691
A 25 square-foot aluminum wing

372
00:19:56,691 --> 00:19:59,316
is mounted above the roll cage.

373
00:19:59,316 --> 00:20:02,983
It creates downforce,
sticking the car to the track.

374
00:20:02,983 --> 00:20:06,108
They have no battery, starter,
transmission, or clutch.

375
00:20:06,108 --> 00:20:10,400
The right rear tire is
notably wider than the rest,

376
00:20:10,400 --> 00:20:12,650
and intentionally low on air pressure,

377
00:20:12,650 --> 00:20:15,983
to get better traction on
the banked track corners.

378
00:20:17,233 --> 00:20:19,983
(engine rumbles)

379
00:20:24,400 --> 00:20:26,275
- It would be, probably,

380
00:20:27,525 --> 00:20:30,608
one of the quickest
accelerating vehicles in racing

381
00:20:30,608 --> 00:20:32,733
that you could possibly ride in,

382
00:20:32,733 --> 00:20:35,108
in terms of going around corners.

383
00:20:37,483 --> 00:20:39,525
So they have a huge amount of horsepower

384
00:20:39,525 --> 00:20:41,108
and very, very little weight.

385
00:20:41,108 --> 00:20:44,358
- This sport, it's the highs are so high.

386
00:20:44,358 --> 00:20:47,275
I don't know if you could take
drugs to make you that happy.

387
00:20:47,275 --> 00:20:50,566
It's just something that
propels you so high,

388
00:20:50,566 --> 00:20:52,941
it puts you on a pedestal, you know.

389
00:20:52,941 --> 00:20:55,733
People kinda like look
up to you a little bit.

390
00:20:55,733 --> 00:20:58,316
But then the lows are so low,

391
00:20:58,316 --> 00:21:01,816
that it just, it's a rollercoaster.

392
00:21:01,816 --> 00:21:04,650
(engines revving)

393
00:21:07,400 --> 00:21:08,400
I understand why my father

394
00:21:08,400 --> 00:21:09,983
didn't want me to get in the sport,

395
00:21:09,983 --> 00:21:12,441
because one week you're
on top of the world,

396
00:21:12,441 --> 00:21:14,983
next week, you're literally
at the bottom, you know.

397
00:21:14,983 --> 00:21:16,691
And then you gotta drag yourself out

398
00:21:16,691 --> 00:21:20,066
and work on the car harder,
come back, and be better.

399
00:21:24,233 --> 00:21:25,941
- I think you see guys come back.

400
00:21:25,941 --> 00:21:28,108
I mean, that's their grassroots,

401
00:21:28,108 --> 00:21:30,400
that's what got 'em into the big leagues

402
00:21:30,400 --> 00:21:31,691
making the big money.

403
00:21:31,691 --> 00:21:33,983
And I believe at the end of the day,

404
00:21:33,983 --> 00:21:34,858
I would say

405
00:21:35,900 --> 00:21:37,941
the majority of them guys

406
00:21:37,941 --> 00:21:40,858
would love nothing more to race the dirt.

407
00:21:44,816 --> 00:21:46,608
You know, NASCAR is near and dear to 'em

408
00:21:46,608 --> 00:21:48,983
because of the fortune,
the fame, the money,

409
00:21:48,983 --> 00:21:52,275
the lifestyle that they, you
know, are capable of living.

410
00:21:53,816 --> 00:21:55,066
But I think at the end of the day,

411
00:21:55,066 --> 00:21:57,608
if they could make as much
money racing on the dirt

412
00:21:57,608 --> 00:22:00,025
as they could on the blacktop,
they would, you know,

413
00:22:00,025 --> 00:22:02,941
I think a lot of 'em would
switch back to the dirt.

414
00:22:02,941 --> 00:22:07,066
- Tony yearned for simpler
times at the dirt track,

415
00:22:07,066 --> 00:22:09,483
when he was hanging out with his pals

416
00:22:09,483 --> 00:22:11,983
and people would leave him alone.

417
00:22:11,983 --> 00:22:12,816
And

418
00:22:14,191 --> 00:22:15,275
he

419
00:22:15,275 --> 00:22:17,775
probably loved that

420
00:22:17,775 --> 00:22:18,858
more than

421
00:22:20,525 --> 00:22:22,608
winning the biggest race of his career,

422
00:22:22,608 --> 00:22:24,566
which undoubtedly was the Brickyard.

423
00:22:25,816 --> 00:22:27,900
- [Announcer] Tony
Stewart, a native Hoosier.

424
00:22:27,900 --> 00:22:29,441
His dream comes true!

425
00:22:29,441 --> 00:22:33,233
Tony Stewart wins the
Allstate 400 at the Brickyard!

426
00:22:33,233 --> 00:22:34,858
- [Narrator] The
Indianapolis Motor Speedway,

427
00:22:34,858 --> 00:22:37,066
home to the Brickyard 400,

428
00:22:37,066 --> 00:22:39,650
and Canandaigua's Motorsports Park

429
00:22:39,650 --> 00:22:42,191
in Ontario County, New York,

430
00:22:42,191 --> 00:22:43,525
are worlds apart.

431
00:22:46,566 --> 00:22:48,733
At the Brickyard in 2005,

432
00:22:48,733 --> 00:22:53,733
Tony Stewart raced 160 laps
on a 2 1/2 mile asphalt track

433
00:22:53,941 --> 00:22:56,525
in front of more than
a quarter million fans.

434
00:22:56,525 --> 00:22:57,733
(crowd cheers)

435
00:22:57,733 --> 00:22:59,066
- [Announcer] That's his suite,

436
00:23:00,108 --> 00:23:02,316
outside of turn two, here comes Smoke.

437
00:23:02,316 --> 00:23:06,650
- [Narrator] His winning
prize was around $554,000.

438
00:23:06,650 --> 00:23:08,066
(crowd cheers)

439
00:23:08,066 --> 00:23:10,358
- [Crowd] You're the man! Tony!

440
00:23:10,358 --> 00:23:12,941
(crowd cheers)

441
00:23:14,358 --> 00:23:15,775
- [Narrator] When he
entered a sprint car race

442
00:23:15,775 --> 00:23:19,525
at Canandaigua's half-mile track in 2014,

443
00:23:19,525 --> 00:23:23,566
just a few thousand fans filled
the front stretch stands.

444
00:23:23,566 --> 00:23:27,858
The winner was slated to take home $1500.

445
00:23:27,858 --> 00:23:31,400
- You know, why he was there
that night racing for $1500?

446
00:23:33,025 --> 00:23:34,316
I don't have an answer.

447
00:23:34,316 --> 00:23:35,900
But,

448
00:23:35,900 --> 00:23:38,566
I do know how aggressive he is

449
00:23:38,566 --> 00:23:40,191
to race like that.

450
00:23:40,191 --> 00:23:42,650
The year before, almost to date,

451
00:23:42,650 --> 00:23:44,150
he caused the accident

452
00:23:44,150 --> 00:23:47,733
that the girl ended up with a broken back.

453
00:23:47,733 --> 00:23:50,733
(race cars buzzing)

454
00:23:51,691 --> 00:23:54,983
(crowd yelling)

455
00:23:54,983 --> 00:23:58,733
15 cars got involved, ours was one of 'em.

456
00:23:58,733 --> 00:24:01,525
It broke, ruined our
chassis, and got bent up

457
00:24:01,525 --> 00:24:04,608
over him doing some
stupid move in the front

458
00:24:04,608 --> 00:24:06,191
that shoulda never happened.

459
00:24:06,191 --> 00:24:08,441
It was the second, third
lap of the race, you know,

460
00:24:08,441 --> 00:24:11,066
and he's making moves that,

461
00:24:11,066 --> 00:24:12,983
the weekly guys that we race against

462
00:24:12,983 --> 00:24:13,900
would never have done it.

463
00:24:13,900 --> 00:24:16,066
- The people love the sprint cars.

464
00:24:16,066 --> 00:24:17,400
They're flipping, they're crashing,

465
00:24:17,400 --> 00:24:19,900
they're, you know, wrecking equipment,

466
00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:21,650
and that's all part of it.

467
00:24:21,650 --> 00:24:23,941
You know, we don't like crashing,

468
00:24:23,941 --> 00:24:26,066
we don't like flipping
and destroying race cars.

469
00:24:26,066 --> 00:24:27,025
It costs a lot of money.

470
00:24:27,025 --> 00:24:28,025
But,

471
00:24:28,025 --> 00:24:29,400
at the same time,

472
00:24:29,400 --> 00:24:33,233
I think it's a lot of fun to
put a show on for the fans.

473
00:24:34,441 --> 00:24:37,775
(rhythmic upbeat music)

474
00:24:42,650 --> 00:24:45,233
(crowd cheers)

475
00:24:50,816 --> 00:24:53,025
- Everybody's happy at the
racetrack, for the most part.

476
00:24:53,025 --> 00:24:54,525
You know, you have bad nights,

477
00:24:55,941 --> 00:24:59,358
but you look at the fans
and everybody's smiling

478
00:24:59,358 --> 00:25:00,983
and laughing and cheering and waving,

479
00:25:00,983 --> 00:25:03,316
and that's the fun part of it.

480
00:25:03,316 --> 00:25:06,316
The kids, to me, to see
the little kids out there

481
00:25:06,316 --> 00:25:08,691
and you know, trying
to walk up to the fence

482
00:25:08,691 --> 00:25:09,983
and waving to us and stuff.

483
00:25:09,983 --> 00:25:12,983
That's, I get a kick out of that.

484
00:25:14,650 --> 00:25:17,066
(motors rev)

485
00:25:24,566 --> 00:25:27,233
(wistful music)

486
00:25:39,358 --> 00:25:41,441
- [Reporter] Witnesses at the
Canandaigua Motorsports Park

487
00:25:41,441 --> 00:25:44,108
say the crash was like a
scene from a horror movie.

488
00:25:44,108 --> 00:25:45,858
Around 10:30 Saturday night,

489
00:25:45,858 --> 00:25:48,733
NASCAR champion Tony Stewart
collided with and killed

490
00:25:48,733 --> 00:25:51,066
20 year-old competitor, Kevin Ward Jr.

491
00:25:53,483 --> 00:25:55,400
- It's kind of all a blur at this point,

492
00:25:55,400 --> 00:25:57,233
but something that I'll never forget

493
00:25:57,233 --> 00:26:00,983
is Kevin, you know, going through the air,

494
00:26:00,983 --> 00:26:02,775
limp, you know, and just,

495
00:26:03,733 --> 00:26:06,025
I've never seen that before, you know,

496
00:26:06,025 --> 00:26:08,275
and I hope I never see
it again, but it just.

497
00:26:10,941 --> 00:26:12,775
Didn't look like a person, you know?

498
00:26:12,775 --> 00:26:14,108
It's almost like you take a fire suit

499
00:26:14,108 --> 00:26:15,441
and throw it up in the air.

500
00:26:17,608 --> 00:26:18,858
- He got out of his car.

501
00:26:18,858 --> 00:26:20,483
He ran out in the middle of the track.

502
00:26:20,483 --> 00:26:21,316
He pointed at Tony.

503
00:26:21,316 --> 00:26:23,483
Tony took one more lap around

504
00:26:23,483 --> 00:26:26,066
and he stood right there
in front of the car

505
00:26:26,066 --> 00:26:27,691
and Tony never stopped.

506
00:26:27,691 --> 00:26:28,941
And that's all she wrote.

507
00:26:33,441 --> 00:26:34,525
- He was really excited.

508
00:26:34,525 --> 00:26:35,733
I mean, I could see,

509
00:26:35,733 --> 00:26:36,983
like when I arrived at
the track that night,

510
00:26:36,983 --> 00:26:39,441
like I could see like the joy in him.

511
00:26:39,441 --> 00:26:40,900
Like I could tell he was just so happy

512
00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:43,066
that his car was running,
it was hooked, you know,

513
00:26:43,066 --> 00:26:45,566
it was doing exactly
what he wanted it to do.

514
00:26:45,566 --> 00:26:48,191
Like, he knew he had a good
chance to do really well.

515
00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:55,483
- And then to see Tony pull up that night,

516
00:26:55,483 --> 00:26:57,316
that was a big deal, you know?

517
00:26:57,316 --> 00:26:59,233
Because we just broke into this division

518
00:26:59,233 --> 00:27:01,191
and now we're gonna be racing against him.

519
00:27:01,191 --> 00:27:03,108
And then to be running, you know,

520
00:27:03,108 --> 00:27:05,358
I shouldn't say door-to-door,

521
00:27:05,358 --> 00:27:06,525
because he was definitely

522
00:27:06,525 --> 00:27:09,400
a little bit better
than we were that night,

523
00:27:09,400 --> 00:27:10,941
you know, it was kind of a big deal for us

524
00:27:10,941 --> 00:27:13,066
to try to keep up and try to learn,

525
00:27:13,066 --> 00:27:15,316
especially from a veteran driver,

526
00:27:15,316 --> 00:27:17,316
on lines and where to run.

527
00:27:17,316 --> 00:27:19,150
- Kayla was there with their little,

528
00:27:19,150 --> 00:27:21,566
with my grandson there, Landon.

529
00:27:21,566 --> 00:27:23,775
And Kevin's still working on his car.

530
00:27:23,775 --> 00:27:26,650
Landon, he was always involved,

531
00:27:26,650 --> 00:27:28,400
you know, working on the car too.

532
00:27:28,400 --> 00:27:30,275
I mean, he was only four years old,

533
00:27:30,275 --> 00:27:31,358
but he was interested in it,

534
00:27:31,358 --> 00:27:33,900
and had wrenches in his hand all the time.

535
00:27:33,900 --> 00:27:37,691
- I remember he was
standing in the trailer.

536
00:27:37,691 --> 00:27:40,525
I think he was probably texting
his girlfriend really quick.

537
00:27:40,525 --> 00:27:42,608
And I told him, "I'm gonna
go up in the stands now."

538
00:27:42,608 --> 00:27:43,900
"Good luck, bud," you know.

539
00:27:43,900 --> 00:27:46,983
And he just looked at me
and he says, "Thanks, Mama."

540
00:27:46,983 --> 00:27:48,983
And I went up to the stands.

541
00:27:50,275 --> 00:27:51,483
Kevin pushed him out.

542
00:27:51,483 --> 00:27:53,316
And I remember right before
he went on the track,

543
00:27:53,316 --> 00:27:55,066
he told me that, you know,

544
00:27:55,066 --> 00:27:56,608
the last thing he said to Kevin was,

545
00:27:56,608 --> 00:27:58,608
"It's gonna be a good night tonight, Pa."

546
00:27:58,608 --> 00:28:01,608
I mean I just think that just goes to show

547
00:28:01,608 --> 00:28:03,650
how much he really
wanted to win this race.

548
00:28:03,650 --> 00:28:05,150
- [Announcer] Everybody falls in line

549
00:28:05,150 --> 00:28:07,066
where they need to be
behind the pace truck.

550
00:28:07,066 --> 00:28:08,150
And the next time by,

551
00:28:08,150 --> 00:28:10,316
we will turn them loose with the green.

552
00:28:10,316 --> 00:28:11,941
- And it come across the radio, you know,

553
00:28:11,941 --> 00:28:14,025
"Drivers get ready for the A main,"

554
00:28:14,025 --> 00:28:15,316
'cause weather's moving in.

555
00:28:15,316 --> 00:28:16,608
- [Announcer] And Tommy
Wickham in row two.

556
00:28:16,608 --> 00:28:18,775
Darryl Ruggles and
Kevin Ward in row three.

557
00:28:18,775 --> 00:28:21,275
Jessica Zemken and Cory
Sparks in row four.

558
00:28:21,275 --> 00:28:23,275
Jeff Cook and Steve Poirier in row five.

559
00:28:23,275 --> 00:28:26,233
Scott Kreutter and Tony
Stewart in row number six.

560
00:28:26,233 --> 00:28:29,816
- I was up in the grandstands
with my family and everything,

561
00:28:29,816 --> 00:28:33,566
and it was something I always
did on a regular basis.

562
00:28:33,566 --> 00:28:34,775
Like if Kevin spun out,

563
00:28:34,775 --> 00:28:36,733
or if I thought there was any chance

564
00:28:36,733 --> 00:28:38,608
that he could have gotten
hurt or anything like that,

565
00:28:38,608 --> 00:28:41,650
I always go down and check on him.

566
00:28:41,650 --> 00:28:44,483
(motors rumbling)

567
00:28:46,900 --> 00:28:48,900
- Well, the accident happened on lap 13.

568
00:28:48,900 --> 00:28:50,483
- [Newscaster] Stewart's number 14 car

569
00:28:50,483 --> 00:28:54,316
seems to make contact with
Kevin Ward Jr.'s 13 car,

570
00:28:54,316 --> 00:28:56,983
which you see hits the
wall and spins out. Now-

571
00:28:56,983 --> 00:28:58,316
- When you're a big star

572
00:28:58,316 --> 00:29:00,900
and you go to a place like Canandaigua,

573
00:29:00,900 --> 00:29:02,691
you always have

574
00:29:02,691 --> 00:29:03,983
sort of the

575
00:29:03,983 --> 00:29:07,233
situation like the
fastest gun in the West,

576
00:29:07,233 --> 00:29:09,775
where you have these
local guys who are like,

577
00:29:09,775 --> 00:29:13,066
"I don't care who he is,
he's not running over me."

578
00:29:13,066 --> 00:29:14,275
- [Announcer] Into turn number one.

579
00:29:14,275 --> 00:29:15,566
Tries to slow the slider.

580
00:29:15,566 --> 00:29:17,816
Oh! And we've got Ward into the wall!

581
00:29:17,816 --> 00:29:19,066
Ward into the wall!

582
00:29:19,066 --> 00:29:21,108
He bounces it over the cushion,

583
00:29:21,108 --> 00:29:23,858
and off the wall into turn number one.

584
00:29:23,858 --> 00:29:25,525
We are under caution.

585
00:29:25,525 --> 00:29:30,441
- The weekly racers know how
each one, each driver races.

586
00:29:30,441 --> 00:29:32,900
And they know Kevin's a, you know,

587
00:29:32,900 --> 00:29:34,941
hammer down, up on the top.

588
00:29:34,941 --> 00:29:36,983
When you slide him, you'd
better give him some room,

589
00:29:36,983 --> 00:29:39,191
or you're gonna make contact with him.

590
00:29:39,191 --> 00:29:42,608
Well, Tony, not being a
weekly racer with him,

591
00:29:42,608 --> 00:29:45,150
just slid him so close, you know,

592
00:29:45,150 --> 00:29:47,066
actually clipped him, the front end.

593
00:29:52,483 --> 00:29:54,983
- A slide job is on a dirt track.

594
00:29:54,983 --> 00:29:57,275
When you go in the turn,

595
00:29:57,275 --> 00:29:59,316
you're low in the turn,

596
00:29:59,316 --> 00:30:02,566
and you get more traction
and fly outta the turn

597
00:30:02,566 --> 00:30:06,275
and slide across in front of
the car you're racing against.

598
00:30:06,275 --> 00:30:08,816
In other words, for a lot of
times, there's two grooves.

599
00:30:08,816 --> 00:30:10,983
There's one guy low, one guy high.

600
00:30:10,983 --> 00:30:12,775
They start to surge ahead,

601
00:30:12,775 --> 00:30:15,816
then the guy on the outside has more RPMs

602
00:30:15,816 --> 00:30:17,483
and he goes back by.

603
00:30:17,483 --> 00:30:19,816
A slide job is when that guy on the bottom

604
00:30:19,816 --> 00:30:21,983
goes extra hard into the turn,

605
00:30:21,983 --> 00:30:24,275
and slides up the higher groove

606
00:30:24,275 --> 00:30:26,108
and that's the way he makes the pass.

607
00:30:26,983 --> 00:30:29,191
- [Announcer] And Kevin
Ward's coming out of his car.

608
00:30:29,191 --> 00:30:30,941
He is looking for somebody.

609
00:30:31,775 --> 00:30:33,316
- That's not abnormal.

610
00:30:33,316 --> 00:30:35,650
Usually you get out and you
take your steering wheel

611
00:30:35,650 --> 00:30:36,858
and you chuck it at the other car,

612
00:30:36,858 --> 00:30:40,191
or you run out there and you wave 'em down

613
00:30:40,191 --> 00:30:42,858
and flip 'em the bird, or you know.

614
00:30:42,858 --> 00:30:47,358
Obviously, when you end
up in the wall, you know,

615
00:30:47,358 --> 00:30:49,483
you're not happy, you know.

616
00:30:49,483 --> 00:30:50,983
And everybody has a right to be,

617
00:30:50,983 --> 00:30:52,608
there's a lot of money on the line,

618
00:30:52,608 --> 00:30:54,733
and a lot of pride, a lot of ego.

619
00:30:54,733 --> 00:30:57,400
- Look, it is part of the ethic of racing.

620
00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:58,608
There's no doubt about it.

621
00:30:58,608 --> 00:31:01,441
And you're right, Tony Stewart,
regardless of this incident,

622
00:31:01,441 --> 00:31:03,316
separate from this incident,

623
00:31:03,316 --> 00:31:05,275
has made a career, in some ways,

624
00:31:05,275 --> 00:31:07,316
of having a hotheaded personality.

625
00:31:07,316 --> 00:31:08,941
Fans love him for it.

626
00:31:08,941 --> 00:31:11,275
It is part of the reason
he has made so much money.

627
00:31:11,275 --> 00:31:12,441
You gotta take a look at this.

628
00:31:12,441 --> 00:31:16,275
This is from a few years ago,
an incident with Matt Kenseth.

629
00:31:16,275 --> 00:31:18,233
He and Tony Stewart get tangled up.

630
00:31:18,233 --> 00:31:19,733
Stewart feels that Kenseth

631
00:31:19,733 --> 00:31:22,066
knocked him out of a winning
position in the race.

632
00:31:22,066 --> 00:31:23,025
And what does he do?

633
00:31:23,025 --> 00:31:26,525
He walks onto the track, in
front of a car, basically,

634
00:31:26,525 --> 00:31:28,858
and throws his helmet at Kenseth.

635
00:31:28,858 --> 00:31:31,066
You tell me how close this is.

636
00:31:31,066 --> 00:31:31,900
- You know, we know

637
00:31:31,900 --> 00:31:34,066
that it wasn't a smart
decision that Kevin made

638
00:31:34,066 --> 00:31:36,108
to get out on the track,

639
00:31:36,108 --> 00:31:37,316
to get out of his car.

640
00:31:37,316 --> 00:31:39,733
We acknowledge that, we know that.

641
00:31:39,733 --> 00:31:40,816
But I strongly feel like

642
00:31:40,816 --> 00:31:43,316
that shouldn't have cost
him his life, either.

643
00:31:43,316 --> 00:31:45,566
(foreboding music)

644
00:31:45,566 --> 00:31:47,733
- [Announcer] And Kevin
Ward's coming out of his car.

645
00:31:47,733 --> 00:31:49,441
He is looking for somebody.

646
00:31:53,066 --> 00:31:54,816
He is looking for,

647
00:31:55,733 --> 00:31:58,775
I believe it was Tony Stewart.

648
00:31:58,775 --> 00:31:59,941
- [Spectator] Oh, my God!

649
00:31:59,941 --> 00:32:03,900
- [Speaker] Red, red, red, red, red, red!

650
00:32:03,900 --> 00:32:06,650
(dramatic music)

651
00:32:09,858 --> 00:32:11,400
- When Tony did a slide job,

652
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:13,233
and I see him spin and hit the wall,

653
00:32:14,816 --> 00:32:16,900
I immediately started down the stands.

654
00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:18,566
I wanted to go see him.

655
00:32:21,025 --> 00:32:23,025
Meantime, while I was
going down the stands,

656
00:32:23,025 --> 00:32:24,441
that other lap occurred.

657
00:32:24,441 --> 00:32:25,858
And that's when he got hit.

658
00:32:25,858 --> 00:32:27,900
- Seeing Kevin get out of his car,

659
00:32:27,900 --> 00:32:29,525
seeing him, you know, he
was coming down the track,

660
00:32:29,525 --> 00:32:31,608
I thought he was actually
coming to my car.

661
00:32:31,608 --> 00:32:33,233
Me and Kevin have,

662
00:32:33,233 --> 00:32:35,441
I might have ran him
outta room in that race.

663
00:32:35,441 --> 00:32:37,400
So I thought he might have been mad at me.

664
00:32:37,400 --> 00:32:38,233
Came at my car.

665
00:32:38,233 --> 00:32:41,691
I gassed it, swerved away
from him, and said to myself,

666
00:32:41,691 --> 00:32:45,483
that next guy in line was
probably gonna hit him.

667
00:32:45,483 --> 00:32:49,066
- I saw him come down the track to,

668
00:32:49,066 --> 00:32:52,066
I believe to yell at Tony Stewart

669
00:32:53,275 --> 00:32:55,816
for the little
fender-bender they got into,

670
00:32:55,816 --> 00:32:57,233
which

671
00:32:57,233 --> 00:32:59,150
unfortunately,

672
00:32:59,150 --> 00:33:00,066
was common.

673
00:33:01,608 --> 00:33:03,150
We couldn't get to him in time.

674
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:05,525
Usually if we can get to 'em in time,

675
00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:07,733
we can put a car in the way, you know?

676
00:33:09,816 --> 00:33:12,900
(somber piano music)

677
00:33:14,483 --> 00:33:15,983
- There was this big cop in front of me.

678
00:33:15,983 --> 00:33:19,191
He was big and you know, muscles.

679
00:33:21,233 --> 00:33:22,691
I just wanted to get by him so bad.

680
00:33:22,691 --> 00:33:25,150
I just wanted to go over
there, and you know,

681
00:33:25,150 --> 00:33:27,483
I remember like begging
him and pleading with him,

682
00:33:27,483 --> 00:33:28,816
"Please let me over there."

683
00:33:28,816 --> 00:33:30,941
Like, "I need to be
with my son right now."

684
00:33:32,275 --> 00:33:34,691
It never happened, they
never let me go over there.

685
00:33:36,566 --> 00:33:39,983
Five minutes went by, 10 minutes went by.

686
00:33:39,983 --> 00:33:43,150
15, 20 minutes went by, and
they were still doing CPR.

687
00:33:46,025 --> 00:33:50,358
I'm a nurse, so I kinda
knew that it wasn't good.

688
00:33:53,733 --> 00:33:55,483
- Once the ambulance got there,

689
00:33:55,483 --> 00:33:58,191
we ended up putting 'em in the ambulance.

690
00:33:58,191 --> 00:33:59,775
I was in the back of
the ambulance doing CPR

691
00:33:59,775 --> 00:34:01,816
all the way to Thompson Hospital.

692
00:34:02,691 --> 00:34:03,525
- [Interviewer] And when you
got to Thompson Hospital,

693
00:34:03,525 --> 00:34:05,733
did the healthcare
professionals take over?

694
00:34:05,733 --> 00:34:06,566
- They took over.

695
00:34:06,566 --> 00:34:09,650
As soon as we backed up and
opened the doors, they came in.

696
00:34:09,650 --> 00:34:12,440
Well, we got 'em out and I was doing CPR.

697
00:34:12,440 --> 00:34:15,233
One of their nurses continued CPR

698
00:34:15,233 --> 00:34:17,775
all the way into, the rest
of the way into the hospital.

699
00:34:22,025 --> 00:34:25,440
- Operator of the car that was struck

700
00:34:25,440 --> 00:34:30,233
was transported to Thompson
Hospital in Canandaigua

701
00:34:30,233 --> 00:34:32,065
by ambulance.

702
00:34:32,065 --> 00:34:36,150
At the hospital, the
operator was pronounced

703
00:34:36,150 --> 00:34:37,190
dead on arrival.

704
00:34:39,858 --> 00:34:41,483
- Seeing it with your two eyes,

705
00:34:42,525 --> 00:34:45,233
and people are coming up to
you that night and going,

706
00:34:46,065 --> 00:34:47,900
"Kevin's not with us anymore."

707
00:34:47,900 --> 00:34:49,690
"Kevin's dead," you know.

708
00:34:49,690 --> 00:34:51,650
And just saying, "No, he's not."

709
00:34:51,650 --> 00:34:54,025
"No, there's no way."

710
00:34:54,025 --> 00:34:54,858
- I,

711
00:34:56,025 --> 00:34:57,065
just felt like I,

712
00:34:57,065 --> 00:34:58,400
like the only thing I could do was pray.

713
00:34:58,400 --> 00:35:00,275
Like, I needed more
help, I needed to pray.

714
00:35:00,275 --> 00:35:01,941
Like I just, I knew it was bad.

715
00:35:01,941 --> 00:35:03,900
I knew it wasn't good.

716
00:35:06,025 --> 00:35:08,066
I went out to one of the
nurses at the desk there,

717
00:35:08,066 --> 00:35:10,150
and I asked her like, "Do you
guys have a chapel somewhere?

718
00:35:10,150 --> 00:35:12,733
Do you have somewhere that I can go?

719
00:35:12,733 --> 00:35:14,233
Like, I need to say a few prayers.

720
00:35:14,233 --> 00:35:16,733
Is there a chapel here in the hospital?"

721
00:35:16,733 --> 00:35:18,733
And she looked at me and she says,

722
00:35:18,733 --> 00:35:21,025
"I think you should go
back in the waiting room,

723
00:35:21,025 --> 00:35:24,066
because the doctor's gonna
be coming in to talk to you."

724
00:35:24,066 --> 00:35:25,858
So at that point I knew he was gone.

725
00:35:29,566 --> 00:35:32,066
- As far as affecting the local, you know,

726
00:35:32,066 --> 00:35:33,525
the local community,

727
00:35:35,108 --> 00:35:35,941
everybody

728
00:35:37,316 --> 00:35:38,400
took it pretty hard.

729
00:35:42,900 --> 00:35:43,733
Sorry.

730
00:35:54,441 --> 00:35:57,525
(clears throat)

731
00:35:57,525 --> 00:35:58,608
It still,

732
00:35:58,608 --> 00:35:59,441
it still

733
00:36:01,775 --> 00:36:02,608
hurts.

734
00:36:07,066 --> 00:36:10,066
(quiet piano music)

735
00:36:20,150 --> 00:36:23,066
(go-kart sputters)

736
00:36:35,608 --> 00:36:37,525
- I hate that my brother's not there.

737
00:36:37,525 --> 00:36:38,525
That wasn't our plan.

738
00:36:38,525 --> 00:36:40,108
He was supposed to be,

739
00:36:40,108 --> 00:36:42,650
it was the Ward Racing Team, with Papa,

740
00:36:42,650 --> 00:36:45,900
and you know, Uncle Kevin, and
my son and my other nephew,

741
00:36:45,900 --> 00:36:48,191
you know, they were going to be a team.

742
00:36:48,191 --> 00:36:50,025
And that team's not complete anymore.

743
00:36:51,108 --> 00:36:53,358
- I hate the fact that my son's death

744
00:36:53,358 --> 00:36:55,441
is on the internet for everybody

745
00:36:57,233 --> 00:36:58,233
to see,

746
00:36:58,233 --> 00:36:59,900
over and over and over again.

747
00:37:01,900 --> 00:37:05,066
And that was really hard for us to accept.

748
00:37:06,858 --> 00:37:09,441
- [Spectator] Tony Stewart
just hit that guy, Alex!

749
00:37:09,441 --> 00:37:11,358
Tony Stewart just hit that guy!

750
00:37:11,358 --> 00:37:12,525
- This is something that will definitely

751
00:37:12,525 --> 00:37:13,775
affect my life forever.

752
00:37:15,316 --> 00:37:17,275
This is a sadness and a pain

753
00:37:17,275 --> 00:37:20,108
that I hope no one ever has
to experience in their life.

754
00:37:21,525 --> 00:37:22,358
That being said,

755
00:37:22,358 --> 00:37:25,525
I know that the pain and the mourning

756
00:37:25,525 --> 00:37:28,608
that Kevin Ward's family
and friends are experiencing

757
00:37:30,566 --> 00:37:33,483
is something that I
can't possibly imagine.

758
00:37:35,150 --> 00:37:37,316
I want Kevin's father, Kevin Sr.,

759
00:37:37,316 --> 00:37:39,691
and his mother, Pam,

760
00:37:39,691 --> 00:37:43,650
and his sisters, Christi
and Kayla and Katelyn,

761
00:37:43,650 --> 00:37:46,775
to know that every day
I'm thinking about 'em

762
00:37:46,775 --> 00:37:48,233
and praying for them.

763
00:37:48,233 --> 00:37:49,066
- He never,

764
00:37:50,483 --> 00:37:52,900
never came over to any of us that night,

765
00:37:52,900 --> 00:37:54,316
never came to the hospital,

766
00:37:54,316 --> 00:37:56,858
never to ask how we were doing.

767
00:37:56,858 --> 00:37:57,775
Never contacted-

768
00:37:57,775 --> 00:37:59,233
- He never showed any concern for us.

769
00:37:59,233 --> 00:38:02,275
Like there was, there was no
concern for us whatsoever.

770
00:38:02,275 --> 00:38:03,858
Like, he never checked
on Kevin that night.

771
00:38:03,858 --> 00:38:07,525
He never checked afterwards to
see, like, how we were doing.

772
00:38:07,525 --> 00:38:08,775
He never...

773
00:38:10,650 --> 00:38:14,108
It's like we weren't
even a thought of his.

774
00:38:14,108 --> 00:38:15,858
Like, I don't understand.

775
00:38:15,858 --> 00:38:18,108
I don't know how I can forgive somebody

776
00:38:18,108 --> 00:38:21,150
when he seems to have no remorse.

777
00:38:22,525 --> 00:38:23,441
- [Court Official] Do you
swear to tell the truth,

778
00:38:23,441 --> 00:38:24,566
the whole truth, and
nothing but the truth,

779
00:38:24,566 --> 00:38:25,608
so help you, God?

780
00:38:25,608 --> 00:38:28,066
- Yes.
- [Court Official] Thank you.

781
00:38:28,066 --> 00:38:29,358
- [Interviewer] State your name, sir.

782
00:38:29,358 --> 00:38:30,566
- Anthony Wayne Stewart.

783
00:38:31,400 --> 00:38:32,775
- [Interviewer] Mr. Stewart,

784
00:38:32,775 --> 00:38:35,525
do you believe that a
operator of a motor vehicle

785
00:38:35,525 --> 00:38:38,400
should not steer that motor
vehicle toward a pedestrian?

786
00:38:39,441 --> 00:38:40,275
- Absolutely.

787
00:38:46,316 --> 00:38:48,816
(tense music)

788
00:38:52,525 --> 00:38:55,025
- [Interviewer] At any point from when

789
00:38:55,025 --> 00:38:58,358
you first saw Mr. Ward's car,

790
00:39:00,650 --> 00:39:02,150
well, at any point after that,

791
00:39:02,150 --> 00:39:05,150
did you apply the throttle to your car?

792
00:39:05,150 --> 00:39:05,983
- Yes.

793
00:39:05,983 --> 00:39:07,358
- [Interviewer] When did you do that?

794
00:39:08,191 --> 00:39:10,816
- (sighs) In-between the time,

795
00:39:10,816 --> 00:39:12,358
the first time I saw him

796
00:39:12,358 --> 00:39:15,566
to after Chuck Hebing went past him

797
00:39:15,566 --> 00:39:17,275
and I realized he was
running down the racetrack

798
00:39:17,275 --> 00:39:18,275
toward me.

799
00:39:18,275 --> 00:39:19,108
- [Interviewer] Okay.

800
00:39:19,108 --> 00:39:20,691
For what purpose did you
apply throttle to your car?

801
00:39:20,691 --> 00:39:22,566
- [Tony] To try to drive
the car down to the left,

802
00:39:22,566 --> 00:39:23,400
to get away from him.

803
00:39:23,400 --> 00:39:27,525
- [Interviewer] And was that
immediately prior to the impact

804
00:39:27,525 --> 00:39:28,566
between him and your car?

805
00:39:28,566 --> 00:39:29,733
- Yes.

806
00:39:29,733 --> 00:39:32,983
- [Interviewer] And if you
apply throttle in that situation

807
00:39:32,983 --> 00:39:33,816
and steer to the left,

808
00:39:33,816 --> 00:39:36,275
isn't the back of your car
gonna slide to the right?

809
00:39:36,275 --> 00:39:38,191
- It did in that scenario, yes.

810
00:39:38,191 --> 00:39:40,441
- [Interviewer] But that's the
typical way it's gonna move.

811
00:39:40,441 --> 00:39:41,650
- Not necessarily.

812
00:39:41,650 --> 00:39:43,066
- [Interviewer] What
other way would it move?

813
00:39:43,066 --> 00:39:44,775
- [Tony] I mean, depending
on the track conditions,

814
00:39:44,775 --> 00:39:46,441
if the track's really sticky, it wouldn't,

815
00:39:46,441 --> 00:39:48,275
it may not move at all.

816
00:39:48,275 --> 00:39:50,483
- I was behind him,
right directly behind him

817
00:39:50,483 --> 00:39:51,316
going into turn one and two,

818
00:39:51,316 --> 00:39:52,983
and they were telling us to stay low,

819
00:39:52,983 --> 00:39:55,191
and I started to come down a little bit,

820
00:39:55,191 --> 00:39:58,858
and I could see Tony's left
front wheel turn to the right,

821
00:39:59,816 --> 00:40:02,275
closer in the direction
of where Kevin was,

822
00:40:02,275 --> 00:40:03,983
up higher onto the race track.

823
00:40:05,733 --> 00:40:07,233
And then I could see,

824
00:40:08,275 --> 00:40:09,441
I was on the, just underneath him

825
00:40:09,441 --> 00:40:11,066
and I could look up and see,

826
00:40:11,066 --> 00:40:13,066
I could see Kevin still
there in front of his car

827
00:40:13,066 --> 00:40:14,691
and with his hands in the air.

828
00:40:14,691 --> 00:40:15,983
And

829
00:40:15,983 --> 00:40:18,733
I saw the rear of the car stand up

830
00:40:18,733 --> 00:40:20,900
and the dust come off the rear tires

831
00:40:20,900 --> 00:40:22,858
as Tony hit the throttle.

832
00:40:33,400 --> 00:40:34,691
- [Interviewer] And then?

833
00:40:34,691 --> 00:40:36,233
- And then when he hit the throttle,

834
00:40:36,233 --> 00:40:38,858
the rear of the car came around,

835
00:40:38,858 --> 00:40:40,900
and the front end of the
car went to the left,

836
00:40:40,900 --> 00:40:42,483
the car got sideways.

837
00:40:45,483 --> 00:40:47,400
And he struck Kevin.

838
00:40:48,816 --> 00:40:51,775
- And as I believe he saw

839
00:40:51,775 --> 00:40:53,483
Ward pointing at him,

840
00:40:53,483 --> 00:40:57,441
he started to drift up
the track towards him.

841
00:40:58,441 --> 00:41:03,441
And then Ward was moving
his feet quick (fingers tap)

842
00:41:03,983 --> 00:41:05,233
and,

843
00:41:05,233 --> 00:41:06,441
like stutter-stepping,

844
00:41:07,316 --> 00:41:08,983
as Stewart was coming at him.

845
00:41:09,816 --> 00:41:12,483
And then Stewart hit the gas,

846
00:41:12,483 --> 00:41:16,025
the car turned sideways, and
I didn't see Ward anymore.

847
00:41:16,025 --> 00:41:18,358
- [Interviewer] What makes
you comfortable saying

848
00:41:18,358 --> 00:41:21,233
that you think Mr. Stewart hit the gas?

849
00:41:21,233 --> 00:41:23,150
- You could hear the car rev.

850
00:41:23,150 --> 00:41:25,150
- [Interviewer] And did you,

851
00:41:25,150 --> 00:41:27,441
do you feel comfortable that
you can associate that rev

852
00:41:27,441 --> 00:41:29,400
with Mr. Stewart's car?

853
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:30,858
- Yes.

854
00:41:30,858 --> 00:41:33,025
- I saw Tony's car

855
00:41:33,025 --> 00:41:33,983
go up,

856
00:41:33,983 --> 00:41:37,108
and then he gassed it and came back down,

857
00:41:37,108 --> 00:41:40,691
and he collected Kevin into his rear tire.

858
00:41:43,941 --> 00:41:47,316
And then he was thrown
approximately 70 feet.

859
00:41:47,316 --> 00:41:49,275
- I mean, we said from day one

860
00:41:49,275 --> 00:41:51,691
that it looked like he
had moved up the track

861
00:41:51,691 --> 00:41:54,025
and obviously hit the throttle.

862
00:41:54,025 --> 00:41:55,816
And I know them cars,

863
00:41:55,816 --> 00:41:57,400
what they do when you hit the throttle,

864
00:41:57,400 --> 00:42:00,858
you know, it fishtails out
the back end to the right.

865
00:42:00,858 --> 00:42:05,775
So, you know, we're like,
"Why'd he hit the throttle?"

866
00:42:05,775 --> 00:42:08,816
- Tony's car, there whether, yeah,

867
00:42:08,816 --> 00:42:10,525
I don't know what he was doing.

868
00:42:10,525 --> 00:42:12,066
You know, I'm not in his head.

869
00:42:13,108 --> 00:42:14,358
All I know is that

870
00:42:15,525 --> 00:42:17,066
the rear tires lifted right up,

871
00:42:17,066 --> 00:42:18,441
blew up big and skinny

872
00:42:18,441 --> 00:42:20,150
and the dust rolled off of 'em.

873
00:42:21,108 --> 00:42:22,941
And next thing you know,

874
00:42:24,108 --> 00:42:25,608
Kevin's flying through the air.

875
00:42:25,608 --> 00:42:26,608
I don't know,

876
00:42:30,275 --> 00:42:32,150
I don't know if he was
driving straight at him.

877
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:34,608
I don't know if he was
getting on the throttle

878
00:42:34,608 --> 00:42:35,441
to try to miss him

879
00:42:35,441 --> 00:42:37,441
and try to get down to the
bottom of the racetrack.

880
00:42:37,441 --> 00:42:38,275
I don't know.

881
00:42:40,025 --> 00:42:42,275
There's a split second
there that I can't see.

882
00:42:42,275 --> 00:42:45,108
- [Interviewer] You saw Mr. Ward struck,

883
00:42:45,108 --> 00:42:48,608
and then did you ever see him move again?

884
00:42:50,775 --> 00:42:52,191
- No, I saw him,

885
00:42:53,858 --> 00:42:55,566
I saw Tony make impact

886
00:42:56,900 --> 00:42:57,775
and strike Kevin

887
00:42:57,775 --> 00:43:01,525
and I saw Kevin going through the air

888
00:43:01,525 --> 00:43:04,025
and I immediately turned onto the left.

889
00:43:05,691 --> 00:43:06,691
I tried to look and,

890
00:43:09,441 --> 00:43:10,275
no.

891
00:43:16,858 --> 00:43:19,941
- It's inconceivable for me to believe

892
00:43:19,941 --> 00:43:24,233
that Tony Stewart intentionally
hurt another driver.

893
00:43:25,066 --> 00:43:28,566
But it is not inconceivable
for me to believe

894
00:43:28,566 --> 00:43:31,316
that Tony felt like he
was protecting his turf.

895
00:43:36,150 --> 00:43:40,691
You may have said, "I'll
fix his young ass,"

896
00:43:40,691 --> 00:43:45,025
but you've done it 1,000
times and no one's got hurt.

897
00:43:45,025 --> 00:43:46,816
And there is a tragedy,

898
00:43:46,816 --> 00:43:50,650
there is a comedy of
errors that takes place.

899
00:43:51,608 --> 00:43:56,608
But I'm positive that Tony
didn't try to kill somebody.

900
00:43:57,900 --> 00:44:00,566
I think that he tried to say,

901
00:44:00,566 --> 00:44:04,275
"I'm Tony Stewart, you
don't mess with me."

902
00:44:04,275 --> 00:44:07,025
But I think it was probably

903
00:44:07,025 --> 00:44:10,316
something that had happened 1,000 times

904
00:44:10,316 --> 00:44:13,941
and nothing bad ever happened.

905
00:44:13,941 --> 00:44:16,691
(haunting music)

906
00:44:19,150 --> 00:44:21,233
- But again, I want to please emphasize

907
00:44:21,233 --> 00:44:23,608
and make it clear that
at this very moment,

908
00:44:25,233 --> 00:44:27,316
there are no facts in hand

909
00:44:27,316 --> 00:44:31,316
that would substantiate or
support a criminal charge

910
00:44:31,316 --> 00:44:34,400
or indicate criminal intent
on the part of any individual.

911
00:44:38,191 --> 00:44:41,191
(suspenseful music)

912
00:44:56,108 --> 00:44:58,858
(staccato music)

913
00:45:09,608 --> 00:45:13,191
(staccato music continues)

914
00:45:20,233 --> 00:45:21,775
- [Interviewer] Would you
state your name please, sir?

915
00:45:21,775 --> 00:45:23,483
- My name is John C. Abraham.

916
00:45:23,483 --> 00:45:24,441
I'm an investigator

917
00:45:24,441 --> 00:45:27,150
for the Ontario County
Sheriff's Department.

918
00:45:27,150 --> 00:45:28,191
- [Interviewer] Let me let you look at

919
00:45:28,191 --> 00:45:30,733
what we've marked as Exhibit 13.

920
00:45:30,733 --> 00:45:32,525
Do you recognize that?
- Yep.

921
00:45:32,525 --> 00:45:33,358
- [Interviewer] And what is it?

922
00:45:33,358 --> 00:45:35,441
- That's a statement I
took from Mr. Stewart

923
00:45:35,441 --> 00:45:36,775
on

924
00:45:36,775 --> 00:45:38,400
August 9th, 2014.

925
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:41,358
I started typing at 11:49 p.m.

926
00:45:41,358 --> 00:45:42,650
- [Interviewer] And was
that a recorded statement

927
00:45:42,650 --> 00:45:43,816
that was later transcribed, or were you-

928
00:45:43,816 --> 00:45:45,941
- No, it was, I typed it.

929
00:45:45,941 --> 00:45:49,483
(keyboard clicking)

930
00:45:49,483 --> 00:45:50,691
- He says,

931
00:45:50,691 --> 00:45:52,816
"We came around turn two under caution,

932
00:45:52,816 --> 00:45:56,275
because the driver that stepped
out of his car had crashed.

933
00:45:56,275 --> 00:46:00,233
When I came around turn
two, there was Chuck,

934
00:46:00,233 --> 00:46:01,900
he was in the car in front of me,

935
00:46:01,900 --> 00:46:04,275
and the driver was
running down the racetrack

936
00:46:04,275 --> 00:46:06,608
and almost ran into Chuck's car.

937
00:46:06,608 --> 00:46:09,608
And when Chuck went by,
he was running at me

938
00:46:09,608 --> 00:46:11,275
because he was upset

939
00:46:11,275 --> 00:46:15,108
that I was the car next
to him when he crashed.

940
00:46:15,108 --> 00:46:18,816
And he stepped right in front
of the car and I swerved,

941
00:46:18,816 --> 00:46:22,400
and then I felt my right rear
tire make contact with him."

942
00:46:23,483 --> 00:46:26,066
What are your thoughts
on that first statement?

943
00:46:26,066 --> 00:46:27,983
- That was his first story.

944
00:46:27,983 --> 00:46:31,400
He seen Kevin walking toward the 45.

945
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:33,983
He seen him walking toward his car.

946
00:46:33,983 --> 00:46:36,441
So that was the first story.

947
00:46:36,441 --> 00:46:37,858
Well, the last story was

948
00:46:37,858 --> 00:46:40,066
that he lost track of him or whatever,

949
00:46:40,066 --> 00:46:43,650
but I mean, that was the
original story there, so.

950
00:46:45,191 --> 00:46:50,191
- Mr. Stewart said that
he attempted to swerve

951
00:46:50,275 --> 00:46:54,108
and that he felt the right rear tire

952
00:46:54,108 --> 00:46:55,650
impact Mr. Ward.

953
00:46:55,650 --> 00:46:56,733
- [Interviewer] That's
the general substance

954
00:46:56,733 --> 00:46:59,566
of your first conversation
with Mr. Stewart that night?

955
00:46:59,566 --> 00:47:01,566
- That's the only conversation I had.

956
00:47:01,566 --> 00:47:02,483
- [Interviewer] Oh, I misheard you.

957
00:47:02,483 --> 00:47:04,483
I thought I heard you say you
talked to him more than once.

958
00:47:04,483 --> 00:47:06,025
- Nope, that was the only time.

959
00:47:06,025 --> 00:47:09,108
(high-pitched music)

960
00:47:15,441 --> 00:47:18,233
- [Narrator] Tony Stewart's
nine-question conversation

961
00:47:18,233 --> 00:47:19,358
with police officers

962
00:47:19,358 --> 00:47:21,650
is written up in less than half a page.

963
00:47:24,941 --> 00:47:26,483
After the first answer,

964
00:47:26,483 --> 00:47:31,191
Stewart spoke a total of 57
words and the interview ended.

965
00:47:32,941 --> 00:47:35,358
- [Interviewer] Going out
to investigate that evening,

966
00:47:35,358 --> 00:47:38,608
did you follow super sprint racing?

967
00:47:38,608 --> 00:47:40,941
- I did not, I still don't.

968
00:47:40,941 --> 00:47:42,858
I did not know any, I mean,

969
00:47:42,858 --> 00:47:44,608
I don't follow sprint racing at all.

970
00:47:44,608 --> 00:47:46,608
Like I said, it's actually the first time

971
00:47:46,608 --> 00:47:50,108
I've ever had to go to the
race track for an incident,

972
00:47:50,108 --> 00:47:52,316
you know, since, in 27 years.

973
00:47:52,316 --> 00:47:53,566
- [Interviewer] Have you
ever done an investigation

974
00:47:53,566 --> 00:47:57,858
of any sort of race car or crash?

975
00:47:57,858 --> 00:47:59,691
- No, I have not.

976
00:47:59,691 --> 00:48:02,108
- [Interviewer] Prior to this
one, I guess I should say.

977
00:48:02,108 --> 00:48:03,316
Is that fair?

978
00:48:03,316 --> 00:48:04,150
- [Deputy Rago] That's correct.

979
00:48:04,150 --> 00:48:05,858
- [Interviewer] So what's
typed up on exhibit 13

980
00:48:05,858 --> 00:48:08,150
is what Mr. Stewart said to you
that night, is that correct?

981
00:48:08,150 --> 00:48:09,108
- [Investigator] Correct.

982
00:48:09,108 --> 00:48:11,275
- [Interviewer] He didn't
say anything to you,

983
00:48:11,275 --> 00:48:13,025
about, for instance,

984
00:48:13,025 --> 00:48:16,691
what his position was on the
track prior to the collision.

985
00:48:16,691 --> 00:48:18,150
Is that fair?
- [Investigator] That's fair.

986
00:48:18,150 --> 00:48:18,983
- [Interviewer] He did
not say anything to you

987
00:48:18,983 --> 00:48:22,191
about whether he applied
the throttle to his vehicle

988
00:48:22,191 --> 00:48:24,108
at any point prior to the crash?

989
00:48:24,108 --> 00:48:24,983
- No, he did not.

990
00:48:25,900 --> 00:48:29,108
- I don't know that they
asked the right questions

991
00:48:29,108 --> 00:48:30,650
on the night of the accident.

992
00:48:30,650 --> 00:48:32,691
They had heard what happened.

993
00:48:32,691 --> 00:48:34,108
They had heard that Kevin Ward

994
00:48:34,108 --> 00:48:36,066
stepped in front of Tony Stewart's car.

995
00:48:36,983 --> 00:48:38,900
They're gonna think, you know,

996
00:48:38,900 --> 00:48:41,483
"Blame is on Kevin Ward.

997
00:48:41,483 --> 00:48:45,525
Tony Stewart was just a
hapless victim in all this.

998
00:48:45,525 --> 00:48:49,608
And you know, he's probably
a little bit upset about it,

999
00:48:49,608 --> 00:48:51,150
and we're gonna go easy on him."

1000
00:48:51,150 --> 00:48:54,025
- "Oh, he just stepped
in the front of my car."

1001
00:48:54,025 --> 00:48:56,150
Was that true or not? Okay.

1002
00:48:56,150 --> 00:48:59,400
They have no basis to say is
that really what did happen.

1003
00:48:59,400 --> 00:49:01,358
But just general appearance is, you know,

1004
00:49:01,358 --> 00:49:03,608
"Car is going here and
the guy is hit by the car,

1005
00:49:03,608 --> 00:49:05,900
so he must step into the car."

1006
00:49:05,900 --> 00:49:07,941
That's what their reasoning was.

1007
00:49:07,941 --> 00:49:10,316
They have no base or science
or anything like that.

1008
00:49:10,316 --> 00:49:11,483
- [Interviewer] When you had a chance

1009
00:49:11,483 --> 00:49:14,608
to meet with Mr. Stewart
that evening, August 9,

1010
00:49:16,025 --> 00:49:16,941
did you have the impression

1011
00:49:16,941 --> 00:49:19,441
that he was aware of what
had occurred on the track?

1012
00:49:19,441 --> 00:49:20,691
- [Investigator] Absolutely.

1013
00:49:20,691 --> 00:49:22,608
- [Interviewer] Did he
show any signs or symptoms

1014
00:49:22,608 --> 00:49:24,108
of any kind of impairment to you?

1015
00:49:24,108 --> 00:49:26,816
- No, I actually even asked him as well.

1016
00:49:26,816 --> 00:49:29,566
I didn't smell it, I
didn't sense anything.

1017
00:49:29,566 --> 00:49:31,608
He was just very upset, very distraught.

1018
00:49:33,025 --> 00:49:35,733
- I most definitely think
they should have tested him.

1019
00:49:35,733 --> 00:49:37,483
They tested my son.

1020
00:49:37,483 --> 00:49:40,983
My son didn't have an option
whether he got tested or not.

1021
00:49:40,983 --> 00:49:43,150
Why shouldn't have Tony have been tested?

1022
00:49:43,150 --> 00:49:45,025
If there's a fatality, you just do it.

1023
00:49:45,025 --> 00:49:47,816
They basically asked Tony, you know,

1024
00:49:47,816 --> 00:49:48,858
"Did you have any alcohol?

1025
00:49:48,858 --> 00:49:50,900
Did you ever do any drugs tonight?"

1026
00:49:50,900 --> 00:49:51,733
or something like that.

1027
00:49:51,733 --> 00:49:52,566
"Nope? Okay."

1028
00:49:52,566 --> 00:49:54,191
That was good enough for them.

1029
00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:56,941
- We're looking at clothing,
we're looking at lighting,

1030
00:49:56,941 --> 00:50:00,233
we're looking for eyewitnesses
that were working.

1031
00:50:00,233 --> 00:50:03,316
We're looking for any information now

1032
00:50:03,316 --> 00:50:06,358
that will assist us in this investigation.

1033
00:50:06,358 --> 00:50:08,858
Again, it's less than 16 hours old.

1034
00:50:08,858 --> 00:50:09,775
It's ongoing.

1035
00:50:09,775 --> 00:50:10,941
- [Reporter] Are you
looking into the possibility

1036
00:50:10,941 --> 00:50:13,441
that Stewart may have
swerved at the last minute,

1037
00:50:13,441 --> 00:50:15,233
deliberately, waiting
until the last minute

1038
00:50:15,233 --> 00:50:16,066
to get out of the way?

1039
00:50:16,066 --> 00:50:18,233
- This is an ongoing investigation

1040
00:50:18,233 --> 00:50:21,150
and we are looking at any information

1041
00:50:21,150 --> 00:50:23,108
that's relevant to the crash.

1042
00:50:23,108 --> 00:50:25,650
- We got the sense that night that,

1043
00:50:25,650 --> 00:50:27,108
like something wasn't right,

1044
00:50:28,150 --> 00:50:30,775
just the way that Sheriff
Povero was talking to us

1045
00:50:30,775 --> 00:50:32,316
and how he didn't want to answer

1046
00:50:32,316 --> 00:50:34,316
some of my questions that I had for him.

1047
00:50:34,316 --> 00:50:38,483
And when I'd ask him direct
questions about the case

1048
00:50:38,483 --> 00:50:40,608
and what they were gonna
do and stuff, like,

1049
00:50:40,608 --> 00:50:42,233
he literally just like turned away from me

1050
00:50:42,233 --> 00:50:43,608
and like wouldn't even
look me in the eye anymore.

1051
00:50:43,608 --> 00:50:45,441
And I thought that was so strange.

1052
00:50:47,733 --> 00:50:50,483
(dramatic music)

1053
00:51:01,233 --> 00:51:04,816
(dramatic music continues)

1054
00:51:15,233 --> 00:51:16,858
- New tonight at 10, the grand jury

1055
00:51:16,858 --> 00:51:19,400
that will determine if
NASCAR's Tony Stewart

1056
00:51:19,400 --> 00:51:21,858
will face charges for
killing another driver

1057
00:51:21,858 --> 00:51:23,608
met for the first time today.

1058
00:51:23,608 --> 00:51:25,191
- Yes, the charges that

1059
00:51:25,191 --> 00:51:27,775
were submitted to the grand
jury for consideration

1060
00:51:27,775 --> 00:51:29,900
were manslaughter in the second degree

1061
00:51:29,900 --> 00:51:32,358
and criminally negligent homicide.

1062
00:51:32,358 --> 00:51:35,441
- Drivers are trying to stay
focused on what's ahead,

1063
00:51:35,441 --> 00:51:37,441
but they say the prosecutor's pursuit

1064
00:51:37,441 --> 00:51:40,525
to be sure it was all an
accident is a setback.

1065
00:51:40,525 --> 00:51:42,566
- He's going through the dickens

1066
00:51:42,566 --> 00:51:44,650
since the whole thing happened,

1067
00:51:44,650 --> 00:51:48,150
and now his fate is in
the hands of a jury.

1068
00:51:49,191 --> 00:51:50,525
That's a pretty tough deal.

1069
00:51:59,150 --> 00:52:00,775
- I mean, I've been in a court for,

1070
00:52:00,775 --> 00:52:02,566
you know, speeding
tickets, (laughs) you know?

1071
00:52:02,566 --> 00:52:03,400
But,

1072
00:52:04,525 --> 00:52:06,400
I didn't know what to expect.

1073
00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:08,900
I've never even been to that courthouse.

1074
00:52:08,900 --> 00:52:09,858
Then you walk in,

1075
00:52:09,858 --> 00:52:14,358
and there's all your fellow
racers, there are a bunch there,

1076
00:52:14,358 --> 00:52:16,900
you know, you got five or
six of us that are there.

1077
00:52:17,983 --> 00:52:19,150
They all have lawyers.

1078
00:52:20,358 --> 00:52:21,191
- [Documentarian] But you didn't feel like

1079
00:52:21,191 --> 00:52:22,025
you needed one?

1080
00:52:22,025 --> 00:52:25,358
- I didn't think I needed one
until I walked in the door

1081
00:52:25,358 --> 00:52:26,900
and everybody else was lawyered up.

1082
00:52:26,900 --> 00:52:30,483
Then I said, "Well, maybe
I shoulda had somebody."

1083
00:52:37,025 --> 00:52:40,525
- What cost him his life was
the actions of Tony Stewart.

1084
00:52:40,525 --> 00:52:42,108
Him moving up the track,

1085
00:52:42,108 --> 00:52:45,233
when he was being told to stay
low and slow on the track,

1086
00:52:46,066 --> 00:52:48,358
accelerating under a caution,

1087
00:52:48,358 --> 00:52:49,775
sliding his car sideways,

1088
00:52:49,775 --> 00:52:50,816
(indistinct) his tires.

1089
00:52:50,816 --> 00:52:54,233
You know, those are the actions
that took my son's life.

1090
00:52:54,233 --> 00:52:57,608
- The difficult part is
if it was a road accident,

1091
00:52:57,608 --> 00:53:00,525
you know, everybody in
the jury understands.

1092
00:53:00,525 --> 00:53:02,358
They either drive or they have a car

1093
00:53:02,358 --> 00:53:03,900
or they've been in a car.

1094
00:53:03,900 --> 00:53:06,650
(dramatic music)

1095
00:53:10,816 --> 00:53:13,608
The people there have, I'd
probably put money on it,

1096
00:53:13,608 --> 00:53:15,733
never been to a race, you know,

1097
00:53:15,733 --> 00:53:17,441
never been around a race car.

1098
00:53:17,441 --> 00:53:19,108
They just don't understand.

1099
00:53:19,108 --> 00:53:20,275
They didn't have a breakdown.

1100
00:53:20,275 --> 00:53:22,191
They didn't even have a car there to say,

1101
00:53:22,191 --> 00:53:23,691
"This is what a car looks like.

1102
00:53:23,691 --> 00:53:25,400
And this is, you know, this is stagger,

1103
00:53:25,400 --> 00:53:26,900
this tire's bigger than this tire.

1104
00:53:26,900 --> 00:53:27,983
And this is where the throttle is,

1105
00:53:27,983 --> 00:53:29,525
this is where the brake pedal is.

1106
00:53:29,525 --> 00:53:31,691
This motor has 700 horse, you know,

1107
00:53:31,691 --> 00:53:33,858
on a car that weighs 1400 pounds."

1108
00:53:33,858 --> 00:53:35,650
It's difficult to explain to somebody

1109
00:53:35,650 --> 00:53:37,816
that doesn't have a clue.

1110
00:53:38,691 --> 00:53:42,483
- Well, the videos actually
did not demonstrate any

1111
00:53:45,108 --> 00:53:47,566
aberrational driving by Tony Stewart

1112
00:53:47,566 --> 00:53:50,275
until the point of impact with Kevin Ward,

1113
00:53:50,275 --> 00:53:53,816
at which point his vehicle
veered to the right up the track,

1114
00:53:53,816 --> 00:53:55,108
as a result of the collision.

1115
00:53:55,108 --> 00:53:57,441
Prior to that, his course
was pretty straight.

1116
00:53:57,441 --> 00:53:58,983
(motor revs)

1117
00:53:58,983 --> 00:54:00,608
- Some of our lawyers told us, like,

1118
00:54:00,608 --> 00:54:02,066
"Proof is in the video.

1119
00:54:02,066 --> 00:54:04,400
Like, just let them do their job.

1120
00:54:04,400 --> 00:54:06,775
All they have to do is watch the video.

1121
00:54:06,775 --> 00:54:08,066
They can see what happened.

1122
00:54:08,066 --> 00:54:10,358
Like, don't hound them, you know,

1123
00:54:10,358 --> 00:54:11,900
don't bother them all the time,

1124
00:54:11,900 --> 00:54:13,316
just let them do your job,

1125
00:54:13,316 --> 00:54:14,233
you're gonna be good.

1126
00:54:14,233 --> 00:54:16,566
Just let 'em go ahead
and just do the video."

1127
00:54:18,441 --> 00:54:20,275
One of my biggest regrets yet.

1128
00:54:21,566 --> 00:54:23,525
- [Interviewer] If you assume
he did not move to the right,

1129
00:54:23,525 --> 00:54:24,983
but continued on the line he was on,

1130
00:54:24,983 --> 00:54:27,483
do you think he would've missed Mr. Ward?

1131
00:54:27,483 --> 00:54:28,358
- Yes.

1132
00:54:28,358 --> 00:54:32,275
- [Interviewer] Can you
think of any good reason

1133
00:54:32,275 --> 00:54:35,275
why Mr. Stewart would've
turned his tires to the right?

1134
00:54:35,275 --> 00:54:36,691
- No.

1135
00:54:36,691 --> 00:54:38,150
- [Interviewer] Do you
think it's common knowledge

1136
00:54:38,150 --> 00:54:39,775
among sprint racers

1137
00:54:39,775 --> 00:54:41,191
that if you

1138
00:54:41,191 --> 00:54:44,191
are moving at caution speeds

1139
00:54:45,066 --> 00:54:46,025
and apply throttle,

1140
00:54:46,025 --> 00:54:48,275
that it's gonna cause the rear right,

1141
00:54:48,275 --> 00:54:49,441
the rear of your car

1142
00:54:50,691 --> 00:54:52,191
to slide out to the right?

1143
00:54:52,191 --> 00:54:53,483
- Yes.

1144
00:54:53,483 --> 00:54:55,525
- [Interviewer] Can you
think of a good reason

1145
00:54:55,525 --> 00:54:57,900
why Mr. Stewart would've applied throttle

1146
00:54:57,900 --> 00:55:00,108
right before the impact with Mr. Ward?

1147
00:55:00,108 --> 00:55:04,733
- No.

1148
00:55:04,733 --> 00:55:08,441
- After listening to and
questioning all of the witnesses

1149
00:55:08,441 --> 00:55:10,316
and reviewing all of the evidence,

1150
00:55:10,316 --> 00:55:12,858
the grand jury has determined
that there is no basis

1151
00:55:12,858 --> 00:55:15,441
to charge Tony Stewart with any crimes.

1152
00:55:15,441 --> 00:55:18,691
His case was, therefore, no
billed by the grand jury.

1153
00:55:18,691 --> 00:55:21,275
(gentle music)

1154
00:55:24,608 --> 00:55:26,858
- [Speaker] A grand jury in
Ontario County, New York,

1155
00:55:26,858 --> 00:55:30,525
has decided there is no basis
for any criminal charges

1156
00:55:30,525 --> 00:55:32,066
relating to Tony Stewart's role

1157
00:55:32,066 --> 00:55:34,816
in the August 9th death of Kevin Ward Jr.

1158
00:55:34,816 --> 00:55:36,650
during a sprint car race.

1159
00:55:36,650 --> 00:55:38,566
The grand jury had met Tuesday

1160
00:55:38,566 --> 00:55:41,608
to hear evidence from District
Attorney Michael Tantillo,

1161
00:55:41,608 --> 00:55:44,858
and quickly determined charges
would not be necessary.

1162
00:55:44,858 --> 00:55:46,733
Stewart being cleared of any wrongdoing

1163
00:55:46,733 --> 00:55:49,275
is a tremendous boost
for the NASCAR community,

1164
00:55:49,275 --> 00:55:51,900
where Stewart has many
supporters among drivers,

1165
00:55:51,900 --> 00:55:54,191
crew members, and their families.

1166
00:55:54,191 --> 00:55:55,483
- I mean, our son is gone.

1167
00:55:56,483 --> 00:55:58,483
We're never gonna see our son again.

1168
00:55:58,483 --> 00:55:59,733
And nobody has,

1169
00:55:59,733 --> 00:56:02,566
Tony has not been held
accountable for that at all.

1170
00:56:02,566 --> 00:56:04,316
Not being charged with anything,

1171
00:56:04,316 --> 00:56:06,233
not spending one day in jail,

1172
00:56:06,233 --> 00:56:08,858
which I feel he should
be in jail right now.

1173
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:12,025
I have to live with that every day.

1174
00:56:12,025 --> 00:56:13,525
And that is so hard

1175
00:56:13,525 --> 00:56:17,316
to think that my son's death
has gone unaccountable.

1176
00:56:17,316 --> 00:56:20,441
We've gotten no justice for our son.

1177
00:56:20,441 --> 00:56:22,650
- Most people, they lose a family member,

1178
00:56:22,650 --> 00:56:25,400
and you know, they go
through the calling hours,

1179
00:56:25,400 --> 00:56:27,316
they go through a funeral,
they put 'em in the ground,

1180
00:56:27,316 --> 00:56:29,358
and then, you know, you can start healing

1181
00:56:29,358 --> 00:56:30,858
and you start moving on.

1182
00:56:30,858 --> 00:56:33,066
I feel like my family
was never given that.

1183
00:56:38,483 --> 00:56:40,400
- Maureen, startling revelations today.

1184
00:56:40,400 --> 00:56:43,525
Victim Kevin Ward Jr.
was high on marijuana

1185
00:56:43,525 --> 00:56:46,733
the night he stepped out of
his race car on a live track

1186
00:56:46,733 --> 00:56:49,275
and was struck and killed by Tony Stewart.

1187
00:57:03,108 --> 00:57:05,941
- There is toxicology evidence in the case

1188
00:57:05,941 --> 00:57:07,733
relating to Kevin Ward

1189
00:57:07,733 --> 00:57:10,191
that actually indicated that
at the time of operation,

1190
00:57:10,191 --> 00:57:11,900
he was under the influence of marijuana.

1191
00:57:11,900 --> 00:57:13,025
- I'm not surprised.

1192
00:57:13,025 --> 00:57:15,316
I mean, young kid, high on marijuana.

1193
00:57:15,316 --> 00:57:19,316
Famous, famous person gets off, you know.

1194
00:57:19,316 --> 00:57:21,316
Did they do a blood test on Stewart, too?

1195
00:57:21,316 --> 00:57:23,358
- [Newscaster] Stewart was not tested.

1196
00:57:23,358 --> 00:57:26,108
A drug expert interviewed
Stewart the night of the crash

1197
00:57:26,108 --> 00:57:28,608
and determined he was
not under the influence

1198
00:57:28,608 --> 00:57:30,358
of drugs or alcohol.

1199
00:57:30,358 --> 00:57:34,400
- I don't think it made
any difference, at all.

1200
00:57:34,400 --> 00:57:36,150
But it comes off as,

1201
00:57:36,150 --> 00:57:39,525
"Well, he was high and that's
why he got outta the car."

1202
00:57:39,525 --> 00:57:42,191
No, he got outta the car
cause he was pissed off.

1203
00:57:42,191 --> 00:57:43,608
You know.

1204
00:57:43,608 --> 00:57:45,233
It had nothing to do with it.

1205
00:57:45,233 --> 00:57:48,150
- When they seen the fact that
Kevin had THC in his system,

1206
00:57:48,150 --> 00:57:50,066
that was their ticket.

1207
00:57:50,066 --> 00:57:52,066
It was Tony's ticket to freedom.

1208
00:57:52,066 --> 00:57:56,566
Like, that was the means,
what they needed to use

1209
00:57:56,566 --> 00:57:57,983
to give them justification

1210
00:57:57,983 --> 00:58:01,066
or a motive to be able to clear Tony.

1211
00:58:01,066 --> 00:58:02,566
- [Narrator] That THC was present

1212
00:58:02,566 --> 00:58:06,275
during his postmortem autopsy
lab work is indisputable.

1213
00:58:06,275 --> 00:58:09,775
But the questions that
cannot be answered by science

1214
00:58:09,775 --> 00:58:11,566
are whether Kevin Ward Jr.

1215
00:58:11,566 --> 00:58:14,275
was impaired by his marijuana use,

1216
00:58:14,275 --> 00:58:17,733
and how long it had been
since he last used the drug.

1217
00:58:19,316 --> 00:58:20,900
- No way.

1218
00:58:20,900 --> 00:58:25,816
No way did he have, had
been smoking marijuana.

1219
00:58:25,816 --> 00:58:29,941
I'm saying, well, Friday
morning we left to go to Canada,

1220
00:58:29,941 --> 00:58:32,108
you know, eight o'clock in the morning.

1221
00:58:32,108 --> 00:58:33,316
So,

1222
00:58:33,316 --> 00:58:36,025
I have no idea when he'd had to smoke

1223
00:58:36,025 --> 00:58:38,191
the five hours before he got in that car.

1224
00:58:38,191 --> 00:58:39,650
There's no way possible.

1225
00:58:52,358 --> 00:58:54,233
- All right, my name's Michael Holland.

1226
00:58:54,233 --> 00:58:56,233
I'm a medical toxicologist

1227
00:58:56,233 --> 00:58:58,608
and occupational medicine physician.

1228
00:58:58,608 --> 00:59:02,816
I do a lot of investigations for

1229
00:59:02,816 --> 00:59:05,191
forensic toxicology is one
of my special interests,

1230
00:59:05,191 --> 00:59:06,483
and postmortem is,

1231
00:59:06,483 --> 00:59:10,400
most of forensic toxicology
is postmortem toxicology.

1232
00:59:12,525 --> 00:59:15,066
The carboxy THC, the one that's 78,

1233
00:59:15,066 --> 00:59:17,358
that's an inactive metabolite.

1234
00:59:17,358 --> 00:59:20,191
That can be 2,000 and not impairing.

1235
00:59:20,191 --> 00:59:21,566
It's not an impairing drug.

1236
00:59:23,066 --> 00:59:25,941
Well, you know, a living person at 13.1

1237
00:59:25,941 --> 00:59:27,691
would exhibit all these
different impairment things,

1238
00:59:27,691 --> 00:59:29,691
and you would see all
these different things.

1239
00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:34,108
You can't say that from a
postmortem central blood specimen.

1240
00:59:34,108 --> 00:59:34,941
You just can't.

1241
00:59:35,900 --> 00:59:38,358
You know, and from aortic blood,
I can almost guarantee you

1242
00:59:38,358 --> 00:59:40,941
that that's not what his
antemortem blood level was.

1243
00:59:42,150 --> 00:59:43,941
Almost assuredly it would be less,

1244
00:59:43,941 --> 00:59:46,525
because that's a long postmortem interval

1245
00:59:46,525 --> 00:59:47,775
and it's from central blood,

1246
00:59:47,775 --> 00:59:50,900
and we know it exhibits
postmortem redistribution.

1247
00:59:52,191 --> 00:59:54,483
- The levels that were determined

1248
00:59:54,483 --> 00:59:57,483
were enough to impair judgment, yes.

1249
00:59:57,483 --> 01:00:00,316
- [Announcer] The 28, going
after Kevin Ward's number 13

1250
01:00:00,316 --> 01:00:01,858
off the turn,

1251
01:00:01,858 --> 01:00:03,691
as Ward able to keep the position,

1252
01:00:03,691 --> 01:00:05,691
as Ward trying to reel in

1253
01:00:05,691 --> 01:00:09,316
the Paul Kinney number
19K, as Jason Barney-

1254
01:00:09,316 --> 01:00:10,941
- It's hard for me to imagine

1255
01:00:10,941 --> 01:00:14,066
someone who's acutely high on marijuana

1256
01:00:14,066 --> 01:00:18,441
to be able to, A, negotiate
that kind of a scenario,

1257
01:00:18,441 --> 01:00:20,566
and drive that fast and safely do it;

1258
01:00:20,566 --> 01:00:22,525
and B, even making that decision

1259
01:00:22,525 --> 01:00:25,566
that it would be safe to do that.

1260
01:00:25,566 --> 01:00:28,858
You know, "I'm gonna go get high."

1261
01:00:28,858 --> 01:00:30,608
- [Announcer] The 13 of Kevin Ward

1262
01:00:30,608 --> 01:00:33,525
holding on to position number
six, Jeff Cook is seventh.

1263
01:00:33,525 --> 01:00:35,191
- Those levels in your system

1264
01:00:35,191 --> 01:00:39,566
consistently continue to
rise after someone passes.

1265
01:00:39,566 --> 01:00:43,733
So the fact that Kevin might
have had THC in his system,

1266
01:00:43,733 --> 01:00:45,733
the fact that it could
have been, you know,

1267
01:00:45,733 --> 01:00:47,816
a low level where it wouldn't
have showed impairment,

1268
01:00:47,816 --> 01:00:50,775
or, I'm not even sure what
they would consider impairment,

1269
01:00:50,775 --> 01:00:54,233
but they waited 39 hours
to test his blood for that?

1270
01:00:54,233 --> 01:00:56,900
- And then we were told it's a
matter of how the body's laid

1271
01:00:56,900 --> 01:00:58,275
and where they draw the blood from.

1272
01:00:58,275 --> 01:00:59,566
- [Chris Halsne] You don't
think justice has been served?

1273
01:00:59,566 --> 01:01:00,816
- Not at all.

1274
01:01:00,816 --> 01:01:02,566
Not at all.

1275
01:01:02,566 --> 01:01:06,191
I ask myself, "Why?" every day.

1276
01:01:06,191 --> 01:01:08,358
I do, I mean is it just
because it's who he is?

1277
01:01:08,358 --> 01:01:12,275
I mean, why didn't they charge
him with one single thing?

1278
01:01:12,275 --> 01:01:15,191
- And that was the reason
the civil suit come about.

1279
01:01:15,191 --> 01:01:18,775
You know, civil suits are about money.

1280
01:01:18,775 --> 01:01:19,941
We told 'em from day one,

1281
01:01:19,941 --> 01:01:22,608
we don't want 10 cents
of Tony Stewart's money.

1282
01:01:22,608 --> 01:01:25,483
We don't need 10 cents
of Tony Stewart's money.

1283
01:01:26,316 --> 01:01:29,025
We just wanted answers to what happened,

1284
01:01:29,025 --> 01:01:29,983
and you know,

1285
01:01:31,441 --> 01:01:32,650
it may sound mean, but,

1286
01:01:33,483 --> 01:01:36,233
put him through some of what
we went through, you know.

1287
01:01:38,941 --> 01:01:41,441
(quiet music)

1288
01:01:55,900 --> 01:01:58,400
(tense music)

1289
01:02:02,400 --> 01:02:03,816
- Right now, in the last 30 minutes,

1290
01:02:03,816 --> 01:02:06,066
we've learned that NASCAR
driver Tony Stewart

1291
01:02:06,066 --> 01:02:09,150
is being sued by the
family of Kevin Ward Jr.

1292
01:02:09,150 --> 01:02:11,858
for a deadly 2014 dirt track accident.

1293
01:02:11,858 --> 01:02:14,525
(serious music)

1294
01:02:17,066 --> 01:02:18,775
- I am Richard Ziernicki.

1295
01:02:18,775 --> 01:02:21,691
I am President and CEO
of Knott Laboratory,

1296
01:02:21,691 --> 01:02:26,066
consulting engineering
firm in Denver, Colorado.

1297
01:02:26,066 --> 01:02:30,983
I have been doing this type
of work about 35 years.

1298
01:02:30,983 --> 01:02:34,733
That means this investigation
of motor vehicle accidents

1299
01:02:34,733 --> 01:02:36,441
and industrial accidents.

1300
01:02:36,441 --> 01:02:41,441
- The beauty of solving this
project with videogrammetry

1301
01:02:41,441 --> 01:02:43,400
is that we get to change our perspective.

1302
01:02:43,400 --> 01:02:46,358
We get to see this accident
from a different vantage point.

1303
01:02:46,358 --> 01:02:48,233
We actually have the video.

1304
01:02:48,233 --> 01:02:50,150
- [Colleague] It's layer one.

1305
01:02:50,150 --> 01:02:51,650
- As layer one, yes.

1306
01:02:51,650 --> 01:02:52,525
This is our video.

1307
01:02:52,525 --> 01:02:54,025
So if you were to watch the video,

1308
01:02:54,025 --> 01:02:56,650
you're gonna see it's all over the place.

1309
01:02:56,650 --> 01:02:58,525
And we have to be able to calibrate

1310
01:02:58,525 --> 01:03:02,316
and analyze this video
footage for each video frame,

1311
01:03:02,316 --> 01:03:07,150
because it's such a rapid
succession of changing

1312
01:03:07,150 --> 01:03:10,066
video and camera properties.

1313
01:03:10,066 --> 01:03:12,650
And we need to be able to solve

1314
01:03:12,650 --> 01:03:16,525
for all those multiple
different vantage points.

1315
01:03:17,691 --> 01:03:20,983
- There's nothing more
than just series of images.

1316
01:03:22,191 --> 01:03:24,191
All the camera we deal with,

1317
01:03:25,316 --> 01:03:28,650
currently they are about
30 frames per second.

1318
01:03:28,650 --> 01:03:31,191
Those are a series of images,

1319
01:03:31,191 --> 01:03:33,025
still images, okay?

1320
01:03:33,025 --> 01:03:35,483
So the video, what you see,

1321
01:03:35,483 --> 01:03:38,691
we fooling your eye by telling
you something is moving.

1322
01:03:38,691 --> 01:03:39,525
Nothing is moving.

1323
01:03:39,525 --> 01:03:40,358
Series of videos.

1324
01:03:40,358 --> 01:03:42,441
Your eye take this as a motion,

1325
01:03:42,441 --> 01:03:45,358
but there is no motion
actual on those images.

1326
01:03:47,400 --> 01:03:50,608
And to run the program, it
took like four or five minutes.

1327
01:03:50,608 --> 01:03:53,066
Now it takes a couple seconds.

1328
01:03:53,066 --> 01:03:55,316
Boom, done. The same.

1329
01:03:55,316 --> 01:03:59,858
So speed of the computers
change so dramatically.

1330
01:03:59,858 --> 01:04:02,608
- Every new case is a new challenge,

1331
01:04:02,608 --> 01:04:04,025
and it's like putting a puzzle together.

1332
01:04:04,025 --> 01:04:06,066
So that's why I enjoy it.

1333
01:04:07,066 --> 01:04:07,983
There were

1334
01:04:09,316 --> 01:04:10,400
spectators

1335
01:04:11,275 --> 01:04:12,775
filming this.

1336
01:04:12,775 --> 01:04:15,650
There was a track camera filming this.

1337
01:04:15,650 --> 01:04:19,691
There were GoPro cameras, or the like,

1338
01:04:19,691 --> 01:04:24,275
in at least several of
the vehicles on the track.

1339
01:04:24,275 --> 01:04:26,733
So this was all being recorded,

1340
01:04:26,733 --> 01:04:27,775
and,

1341
01:04:28,733 --> 01:04:30,650
once it happened,

1342
01:04:30,650 --> 01:04:33,566
it helped to untangle the videos,

1343
01:04:33,566 --> 01:04:36,441
helped untangle what actually occurred.

1344
01:04:36,441 --> 01:04:38,275
- The reason we are hired,

1345
01:04:38,275 --> 01:04:41,983
because there was no definite answer

1346
01:04:41,983 --> 01:04:45,566
what really happened on scientific level.

1347
01:04:45,566 --> 01:04:48,858
We have deposition, we have
statement, we have video.

1348
01:04:48,858 --> 01:04:49,816
But the video,

1349
01:04:49,816 --> 01:04:52,108
you can look on the video all your life

1350
01:04:52,108 --> 01:04:56,191
and you cannot comprehend
the depth of the video,

1351
01:04:56,191 --> 01:04:58,233
where the things are in relation,

1352
01:04:58,233 --> 01:04:59,275
depth in the video.

1353
01:04:59,275 --> 01:05:00,733
Because the nature of human eye,

1354
01:05:00,733 --> 01:05:04,275
we don't have ability to
read depth on a video.

1355
01:05:04,275 --> 01:05:05,358
How far they are apart.

1356
01:05:05,358 --> 01:05:09,066
Are they two inches apart
or five inches apart?

1357
01:05:09,066 --> 01:05:12,608
Your body, your brain, your
eye cannot figure out that.

1358
01:05:12,608 --> 01:05:15,358
We need to digest that from that video.

1359
01:05:15,358 --> 01:05:19,066
And in combining this
with the 3D scanning,

1360
01:05:19,066 --> 01:05:20,483
now we can do that.

1361
01:05:20,483 --> 01:05:21,441
- In this case, I think we had

1362
01:05:21,441 --> 01:05:24,441
hundreds of millions of data
points based on our laser scan.

1363
01:05:24,441 --> 01:05:27,108
We understand exactly where
these points in space are,

1364
01:05:27,108 --> 01:05:30,108
and then when we have a vehicle
moving through that space,

1365
01:05:30,108 --> 01:05:32,191
we know what its vehicle dynamics are,

1366
01:05:32,191 --> 01:05:34,233
we know where its position in space is,

1367
01:05:34,233 --> 01:05:36,441
and we can quite accurately tell

1368
01:05:36,441 --> 01:05:41,066
exactly the location of the
vehicle and how it's behaving.

1369
01:05:41,066 --> 01:05:42,983
- And that's the beauty of physics, right?

1370
01:05:42,983 --> 01:05:45,025
You can break the laws of man,

1371
01:05:45,025 --> 01:05:47,816
but you can't break the laws of physics.

1372
01:05:47,816 --> 01:05:48,816
Okay.

1373
01:05:48,816 --> 01:05:49,858
And,

1374
01:05:51,650 --> 01:05:52,941
by golly,

1375
01:05:52,941 --> 01:05:54,983
Tony Stewart stepped on his throttle.

1376
01:05:56,066 --> 01:05:57,608
When he applied throttle,

1377
01:05:57,608 --> 01:06:00,858
the car rotated and kicked the right end,

1378
01:06:00,858 --> 01:06:05,400
okay, so the passenger
side rear of the car out.

1379
01:06:05,400 --> 01:06:06,816
And what that did

1380
01:06:06,816 --> 01:06:11,816
is it kicked it right into
where Kevin Ward was standing.

1381
01:06:12,566 --> 01:06:14,816
And the right rear wheel,

1382
01:06:16,066 --> 01:06:17,983
just, it's very gummy,

1383
01:06:17,983 --> 01:06:22,066
it's like, sort of like
a spongy-type material.

1384
01:06:22,066 --> 01:06:25,066
It probably just, you know,
sucked Kevin Ward right into it.

1385
01:06:25,066 --> 01:06:28,066
And that was, unfortunately,
the end for Kevin Ward.

1386
01:06:30,858 --> 01:06:32,691
- Each frame we can figure out

1387
01:06:32,691 --> 01:06:35,358
acceleration or
deceleration of the vehicle.

1388
01:06:35,358 --> 01:06:36,358
And we did.

1389
01:06:36,358 --> 01:06:38,608
And each frame we can figure out

1390
01:06:38,608 --> 01:06:42,441
your angle or fishtailing of the vehicle,

1391
01:06:42,441 --> 01:06:44,566
and quantify that, how many degree.

1392
01:06:44,566 --> 01:06:46,275
Not just roughly left or right.

1393
01:06:46,275 --> 01:06:47,358
No, specifically.

1394
01:06:47,358 --> 01:06:50,025
That was the beauty of that analysis.

1395
01:06:50,025 --> 01:06:52,566
It's not the guess work,
it's not the judgment.

1396
01:06:52,566 --> 01:06:54,566
There is not no judgment whatsoever.

1397
01:06:54,566 --> 01:06:56,733
It is what that video shows.

1398
01:06:58,191 --> 01:07:02,608
We found not what he did, but
we found what the car did.

1399
01:07:03,441 --> 01:07:06,441
Okay? Difference, huge difference.

1400
01:07:06,441 --> 01:07:08,983
And we can potentially extrapolate that

1401
01:07:08,983 --> 01:07:11,233
because the car didn't do anything

1402
01:07:11,233 --> 01:07:13,275
unless you step on the gas, right?

1403
01:07:13,275 --> 01:07:15,733
So if you step on the
gas, the car will respond.

1404
01:07:15,733 --> 01:07:18,733
But we analyzed not the human behavior,

1405
01:07:18,733 --> 01:07:21,233
we analyzed the car response.

1406
01:07:21,233 --> 01:07:23,691
But the car responded to human action,

1407
01:07:23,691 --> 01:07:24,525
human

1408
01:07:25,733 --> 01:07:29,066
applying steering angle,
applying this, applying that.

1409
01:07:29,066 --> 01:07:32,233
So the car did accelerate.

1410
01:07:32,233 --> 01:07:34,900
There is no base or reason
for car to accelerate

1411
01:07:34,900 --> 01:07:36,441
unless you step on the gas.

1412
01:07:36,441 --> 01:07:40,191
So yes, driver forced
that car to accelerate.

1413
01:07:40,191 --> 01:07:42,983
- We tracked every single
race car that we could

1414
01:07:42,983 --> 01:07:45,983
that went by Kevin Ward prior to impact,

1415
01:07:45,983 --> 01:07:48,025
so that we could see what their path was,

1416
01:07:48,025 --> 01:07:49,025
see what their speeds were,

1417
01:07:49,025 --> 01:07:51,691
how were they reacting to this hazard

1418
01:07:51,691 --> 01:07:53,191
that was in the racetrack.

1419
01:07:54,233 --> 01:07:56,858
And what we found is that these other cars

1420
01:07:56,858 --> 01:07:59,650
were, in fact, following
caution procedures

1421
01:07:59,650 --> 01:08:01,650
of staying low on the track,

1422
01:08:01,650 --> 01:08:05,525
and they were avoiding the
area where Kevin Ward was.

1423
01:08:06,733 --> 01:08:08,566
In the video that you will see,

1424
01:08:08,566 --> 01:08:11,441
there are paths that demonstrate

1425
01:08:11,441 --> 01:08:12,983
the paths of each of those vehicles

1426
01:08:12,983 --> 01:08:15,566
that went by Kevin Ward
prior to the accident.

1427
01:08:15,566 --> 01:08:17,358
Kevin Ward never stepped

1428
01:08:17,358 --> 01:08:19,524
beyond the path of those six vehicles.

1429
01:08:19,524 --> 01:08:22,399
He never got in their way, so to speak.

1430
01:08:22,399 --> 01:08:23,233
So,

1431
01:08:24,358 --> 01:08:26,566
it isn't until Tony Stewart comes by,

1432
01:08:26,566 --> 01:08:29,941
you see all these six paths, right?

1433
01:08:29,941 --> 01:08:33,316
And then Tony Stewart
makes a diagonal line

1434
01:08:33,316 --> 01:08:35,899
straight through those other paths,

1435
01:08:35,899 --> 01:08:38,816
in the direction of Kevin Ward.

1436
01:08:38,816 --> 01:08:39,858
- [Documentarian] When you just look,

1437
01:08:39,858 --> 01:08:41,358
again, I'm talkin' YouTube,

1438
01:08:41,358 --> 01:08:43,149
you're just eyeballing this thing,

1439
01:08:43,149 --> 01:08:46,066
it looks like Mr. Ward
is moving down the track

1440
01:08:46,066 --> 01:08:50,858
and he kind of steps
into Tony Stewart's path.

1441
01:08:50,858 --> 01:08:54,066
You found that didn't,

1442
01:08:54,066 --> 01:08:55,566
that isn't true.

1443
01:08:55,566 --> 01:08:56,399
- That's not true.

1444
01:08:56,399 --> 01:08:58,066
So again, based on the videos,

1445
01:08:58,066 --> 01:09:00,316
and based on the videogrammetry,

1446
01:09:00,316 --> 01:09:02,316
Kevin Ward did come down the track

1447
01:09:02,316 --> 01:09:04,483
from the location that his car was at,

1448
01:09:04,483 --> 01:09:06,233
but he stopped at a certain line.

1449
01:09:06,233 --> 01:09:11,066
He didn't come very close
to the previous six cars,

1450
01:09:11,066 --> 01:09:11,983
low on the track.

1451
01:09:11,983 --> 01:09:13,816
He didn't walk all the way down the track.

1452
01:09:13,816 --> 01:09:16,441
He stayed relatively high, okay.

1453
01:09:16,441 --> 01:09:19,774
And he wasn't coming down
into the path of Tony Stewart.

1454
01:09:19,774 --> 01:09:22,524
Again, should Kevin Ward
have been out of his car?

1455
01:09:22,524 --> 01:09:23,983
No, he should not have.

1456
01:09:23,983 --> 01:09:28,316
But, after he got out of his car, okay,

1457
01:09:28,316 --> 01:09:30,566
he stayed rather high in the track.

1458
01:09:30,566 --> 01:09:33,024
And if it weren't for Tony Stewart,

1459
01:09:34,191 --> 01:09:36,816
this incident wouldn't have occurred.

1460
01:09:38,024 --> 01:09:40,316
- He stopped, and his upper body

1461
01:09:40,316 --> 01:09:43,483
moved away from Tony Stewart.

1462
01:09:43,483 --> 01:09:46,274
He did not make a move into the vehicle.

1463
01:09:47,774 --> 01:09:51,066
He kept walking, then he stood

1464
01:09:51,066 --> 01:09:54,024
for a split second before impact

1465
01:09:54,024 --> 01:09:57,525
and upper body, not leg,
upper body move away from car

1466
01:09:57,525 --> 01:09:58,441
when he was hit.

1467
01:09:58,441 --> 01:10:01,566
- It's not until he accelerates
and hits the throttle

1468
01:10:01,566 --> 01:10:04,691
that his vehicle would,
you know, act accordingly.

1469
01:10:04,691 --> 01:10:06,025
You know, if you're gonna hit the throttle

1470
01:10:06,025 --> 01:10:08,483
in a lightweight, high-horsepower vehicle,

1471
01:10:08,483 --> 01:10:10,025
it's gonna kick the rear end out

1472
01:10:10,025 --> 01:10:11,191
and it's gonna throw up dirt

1473
01:10:11,191 --> 01:10:13,858
and it's gonna do all the
things that a car would do

1474
01:10:13,858 --> 01:10:15,566
if you're gonna stone a competitor.

1475
01:10:15,566 --> 01:10:18,316
But when you're doing
that type of maneuver,

1476
01:10:18,316 --> 01:10:20,691
the vehicle's also gonna
have a tendency to drift.

1477
01:10:20,691 --> 01:10:21,525
And

1478
01:10:21,525 --> 01:10:23,066
the drifting

1479
01:10:23,941 --> 01:10:27,025
would actually cause the
vehicle to go up the track.

1480
01:10:28,275 --> 01:10:30,775
- I don't believe Tony
Stewart was truthful

1481
01:10:30,775 --> 01:10:33,983
in answering why he applied his throttle.

1482
01:10:36,400 --> 01:10:38,983
(somber music)

1483
01:10:44,358 --> 01:10:45,941
- Well,

1484
01:10:45,941 --> 01:10:48,025
it happens in racing,

1485
01:10:48,025 --> 01:10:50,608
but normally people don't get killed.

1486
01:10:50,608 --> 01:10:51,525
And

1487
01:10:51,525 --> 01:10:53,566
I do think

1488
01:10:53,566 --> 01:10:55,733
that it's absurd

1489
01:10:55,733 --> 01:10:58,150
to think that it was,

1490
01:10:58,150 --> 01:10:59,900
that it was intentional.

1491
01:11:00,775 --> 01:11:01,608
I mean,

1492
01:11:05,941 --> 01:11:09,691
it would be no more, say,

1493
01:11:09,691 --> 01:11:11,775
uncommon than say,

1494
01:11:13,191 --> 01:11:15,233
a horse-collar tackle in football,

1495
01:11:15,233 --> 01:11:17,608
or a beanball in baseball,

1496
01:11:17,608 --> 01:11:20,816
or a grabbing the face mask, you know?

1497
01:11:20,816 --> 01:11:25,358
I mean, it's something,
it's sort of a, I mean.

1498
01:11:27,816 --> 01:11:31,275
There's an implication in the word stoning

1499
01:11:32,483 --> 01:11:37,483
that sounds more sinister
than it is, you know.

1500
01:11:37,983 --> 01:11:39,900
- [Interviewer] "He left
his lane and hit the gas

1501
01:11:39,900 --> 01:11:42,025
and to me it just like, it
looks like it was intentional."

1502
01:11:42,025 --> 01:11:43,941
Do you want to modify that sentence?

1503
01:11:43,941 --> 01:11:47,066
- Well, I don't know if I would
put intentional there again,

1504
01:11:47,066 --> 01:11:50,275
not knowing how those turn.

1505
01:11:50,275 --> 01:11:54,566
And one of the things that
we've seen in the past

1506
01:11:54,566 --> 01:11:56,650
at Canandaigua Motor Speedway

1507
01:11:56,650 --> 01:11:59,775
is they like to throw
dirt in people's face.

1508
01:12:00,691 --> 01:12:01,525
All right?

1509
01:12:03,025 --> 01:12:04,191
That's intentional.

1510
01:12:06,733 --> 01:12:09,400
Hitting somebody, maybe
not so intentional.

1511
01:12:09,400 --> 01:12:10,233
I don't know.

1512
01:12:11,150 --> 01:12:14,775
But I've seen people throw
dirt in other people's faces.

1513
01:12:14,775 --> 01:12:16,108
- [Interviewer] That seems
like a bad idea to do that.

1514
01:12:16,108 --> 01:12:17,150
- Very bad idea.

1515
01:12:17,150 --> 01:12:18,650
Bad idea getting out of the car,

1516
01:12:18,650 --> 01:12:20,775
bad idea doing that as well.

1517
01:12:20,775 --> 01:12:22,608
Two wrongs don't ever make a right.

1518
01:12:22,608 --> 01:12:24,025
- We've maintained this from day one.

1519
01:12:24,025 --> 01:12:24,900
We don't think Tony

1520
01:12:24,900 --> 01:12:27,941
intentionally meant to hit and kill Kevin.

1521
01:12:27,941 --> 01:12:29,441
- No, absolutely not.
- We honestly feel

1522
01:12:29,441 --> 01:12:31,941
that he just wanted to intimidate him.

1523
01:12:31,941 --> 01:12:34,608
He was upset with him.

1524
01:12:34,608 --> 01:12:36,150
Whatever his motive was.

1525
01:12:36,150 --> 01:12:38,358
Like, you know, put a show on for people.

1526
01:12:38,358 --> 01:12:40,525
I don't know what Tony's motives were.

1527
01:12:40,525 --> 01:12:42,775
But I strongly feel that
he went up the track

1528
01:12:43,608 --> 01:12:45,400
and tried to throw dirt on my son.

1529
01:12:45,400 --> 01:12:48,358
I don't think he meant
to hit him and kill him,

1530
01:12:48,358 --> 01:12:50,150
but that's what happened.

1531
01:12:50,150 --> 01:12:52,358
- [Interviewer] You didn't
hit Kevin Ward Jr. on purpose?

1532
01:12:52,358 --> 01:12:54,108
- Absolutely not.

1533
01:12:54,108 --> 01:12:56,608
- [Interviewer] You didn't
try to slide a little bit,

1534
01:12:56,608 --> 01:12:57,483
throw mud on him?

1535
01:12:58,733 --> 01:13:00,108
- You can't throw mud on somebody

1536
01:13:00,108 --> 01:13:01,816
when you haven't got to him.

1537
01:13:01,816 --> 01:13:03,858
The mud from the tire would go behind you,

1538
01:13:03,858 --> 01:13:05,275
so you can't throw mud forward.

1539
01:13:05,275 --> 01:13:06,691
It would throw it backwards.

1540
01:13:06,691 --> 01:13:09,150
And there wasn't any mud to
throw in the first place.

1541
01:13:09,150 --> 01:13:11,275
- [Interviewer] So your
answer to my question

1542
01:13:11,275 --> 01:13:12,108
is no, you didn't do that.

1543
01:13:12,108 --> 01:13:12,941
- No, not at all.

1544
01:13:12,941 --> 01:13:13,775
- [Interviewer] All right.

1545
01:13:13,775 --> 01:13:15,525
Are you aware that sprint
car racers do that sometimes,

1546
01:13:15,525 --> 01:13:16,608
or have done it?

1547
01:13:16,608 --> 01:13:17,441
- Yeah.

1548
01:13:17,441 --> 01:13:18,275
- [Interviewer] And that's, you agree,

1549
01:13:18,275 --> 01:13:20,441
that's a terrible idea, right?

1550
01:13:21,441 --> 01:13:24,816
- I've been around sprint
car racing a long time.

1551
01:13:24,816 --> 01:13:26,900
It's part of the sport.

1552
01:13:26,900 --> 01:13:28,316
- [Interviewer] Right,
but it's a bad idea,

1553
01:13:28,316 --> 01:13:30,525
even though it's part of the sport.

1554
01:13:30,525 --> 01:13:32,316
- I've never seen anybody get hurt

1555
01:13:32,316 --> 01:13:33,733
by throwing mud at somebody.

1556
01:13:35,900 --> 01:13:37,566
- We live in a society

1557
01:13:38,566 --> 01:13:40,941
where people constantly wring their hands

1558
01:13:40,941 --> 01:13:44,983
and they say, "He coulda killed somebody!"

1559
01:13:44,983 --> 01:13:47,191
Or,

1560
01:13:47,191 --> 01:13:50,483
you know, it's like,
"Don't shoot that BB gun.

1561
01:13:50,483 --> 01:13:53,066
You might put somebody's eyes out!"

1562
01:13:53,066 --> 01:13:55,733
Well, the great majority of
people that shoot BB guns

1563
01:13:55,733 --> 01:13:58,233
don't put somebody's eyes out.

1564
01:13:58,233 --> 01:13:59,858
But sometimes it happens.

1565
01:13:59,858 --> 01:14:01,400
- I wasn't trying to slide anywhere.

1566
01:14:01,400 --> 01:14:03,941
I was trying to drive underneath him,

1567
01:14:03,941 --> 01:14:05,025
and get away from him.

1568
01:14:06,566 --> 01:14:08,400
- [Interviewer] I'm just
talking about in general.

1569
01:14:08,400 --> 01:14:11,275
You wouldn't wanna slide your
car around or near someone,

1570
01:14:11,275 --> 01:14:13,400
because you have less control
over your car on a slide

1571
01:14:13,400 --> 01:14:15,150
than you do when you're
just driving it, right?

1572
01:14:15,150 --> 01:14:15,983
- Yes.

1573
01:14:15,983 --> 01:14:17,025
- [Interviewer] That
would increase the risk

1574
01:14:17,025 --> 01:14:18,691
that you might hit somebody, right?

1575
01:14:18,691 --> 01:14:19,525
- Yes.

1576
01:14:19,525 --> 01:14:22,066
- [Interviewer] So that's
a terrible idea, right?

1577
01:14:22,066 --> 01:14:22,941
- Correct.

1578
01:14:22,941 --> 01:14:24,441
- [Interviewer] And your
testimony under oath

1579
01:14:24,441 --> 01:14:25,775
was you were not gonna do that-

1580
01:14:25,775 --> 01:14:26,733
- I didn't say-

1581
01:14:26,733 --> 01:14:27,608
- [Interviewer] to Kevin Ward Jr.

1582
01:14:27,608 --> 01:14:29,816
- I was not trying to slide at him, no.

1583
01:14:29,816 --> 01:14:31,066
- [Interviewer] Nor throw mud on him.

1584
01:14:31,066 --> 01:14:31,900
- No.

1585
01:14:31,900 --> 01:14:34,025
- [Interviewer] All right.

1586
01:14:34,025 --> 01:14:37,316
- So Tony Stewart obviously
thinks he did something else

1587
01:14:37,341 --> 01:14:38,550
than what we found.

1588
01:14:39,691 --> 01:14:43,066
And what's interesting is that
is Tony Stewart's reality.

1589
01:14:43,066 --> 01:14:45,025
That's what he believes that he did.

1590
01:14:45,025 --> 01:14:47,566
If they say to stay low, you stay low.

1591
01:14:48,525 --> 01:14:50,358
Okay, you don't go high.

1592
01:14:50,358 --> 01:14:51,441
And

1593
01:14:51,441 --> 01:14:52,275
I don't,

1594
01:14:52,275 --> 01:14:53,483
I'm not a mind reader.

1595
01:14:53,483 --> 01:14:54,858
I don't know what he was thinking.

1596
01:14:54,858 --> 01:14:57,900
But I can talk about the
physics in what happened.

1597
01:14:58,733 --> 01:15:02,358
And what happened was
he not only went high,

1598
01:15:02,358 --> 01:15:06,275
but once he got high and got
close to where Kevin Ward was,

1599
01:15:06,275 --> 01:15:09,066
he decided to step on his throttle.

1600
01:15:09,066 --> 01:15:13,191
- You can't hold the police
harmless in this case

1601
01:15:13,191 --> 01:15:14,441
because

1602
01:15:14,441 --> 01:15:15,858
there are

1603
01:15:15,858 --> 01:15:19,275
officers that have the same
laser scanners that we have

1604
01:15:19,275 --> 01:15:22,691
that are accident reconstructionists.

1605
01:15:22,691 --> 01:15:24,691
We've had several cases
at Knott Laboratory

1606
01:15:24,691 --> 01:15:26,150
where we take the police data

1607
01:15:26,150 --> 01:15:28,400
and we use it the way it should be used,

1608
01:15:28,400 --> 01:15:29,858
with videogrammetry.

1609
01:15:29,858 --> 01:15:32,525
And I don't think that in this case,

1610
01:15:32,525 --> 01:15:34,066
you just let somebody off the hook

1611
01:15:34,066 --> 01:15:37,941
'cause you're not technically
able to analyze the data

1612
01:15:37,941 --> 01:15:40,108
that you could collect.

1613
01:15:40,108 --> 01:15:42,900
So, I don't think there was
enough investigation done

1614
01:15:42,900 --> 01:15:43,816
on their part.

1615
01:15:43,816 --> 01:15:45,483
I don't think that, a lot of times,

1616
01:15:45,483 --> 01:15:47,650
that they put forth
the effort they need to

1617
01:15:48,733 --> 01:15:50,066
for justice to be served.

1618
01:15:50,066 --> 01:15:52,900
A great question would be,
to that grand jury would be,

1619
01:15:54,150 --> 01:15:57,025
show 'em the paths that the vehicles took.

1620
01:15:57,025 --> 01:15:59,066
There's six cars that passed Kevin Ward

1621
01:15:59,066 --> 01:16:00,858
without impacting him.

1622
01:16:00,858 --> 01:16:03,566
Show 'em the path that Tony Stewart took

1623
01:16:03,566 --> 01:16:05,358
prior to the accident,

1624
01:16:05,358 --> 01:16:07,233
and see if that would change their opinion

1625
01:16:07,233 --> 01:16:09,941
of whether there was any intent,

1626
01:16:09,941 --> 01:16:12,775
or any harmful intent in this case,

1627
01:16:12,775 --> 01:16:14,816
that would've changed their opinion

1628
01:16:14,816 --> 01:16:16,150
that a crime was committed.

1629
01:16:17,441 --> 01:16:19,733
- Do you think that if
a grand jury or the DA

1630
01:16:19,733 --> 01:16:21,733
would independently look
at that information,

1631
01:16:21,733 --> 01:16:24,816
that it might have made a
different determination that day?

1632
01:16:24,816 --> 01:16:25,816
- Oh my God, yes.

1633
01:16:25,816 --> 01:16:26,733
I think that would be.

1634
01:16:26,733 --> 01:16:28,400
- I would sure hope that would.

1635
01:16:28,400 --> 01:16:31,316
- It's beyond me that we can have

1636
01:16:31,316 --> 01:16:34,108
a tape forensically
analyzed out in Albany,

1637
01:16:35,233 --> 01:16:37,691
and that tape was the one that they used

1638
01:16:37,691 --> 01:16:40,233
to supposedly clear Tony,

1639
01:16:40,233 --> 01:16:44,483
to clear Tony without any
wrongdoing whatsoever.

1640
01:16:44,483 --> 01:16:47,566
But yet, in our case, we
have it forensically analyzed

1641
01:16:47,566 --> 01:16:49,358
and it's completely the opposite.

1642
01:16:50,191 --> 01:16:53,400
So, like, how does that happen?

1643
01:16:53,400 --> 01:16:56,275
- Oh, there's definitely wounds, you know.

1644
01:16:56,275 --> 01:16:58,983
And I think even what was kind of weird

1645
01:16:58,983 --> 01:17:00,691
is the perception of the whole thing

1646
01:17:00,691 --> 01:17:02,858
started out one direction,

1647
01:17:02,858 --> 01:17:04,858
and then just kind of completely flipped

1648
01:17:04,858 --> 01:17:06,275
the other direction.

1649
01:17:06,275 --> 01:17:11,025
I think at first, it was hands
down it was Tony's fault.

1650
01:17:11,025 --> 01:17:11,858
And then,

1651
01:17:13,358 --> 01:17:16,400
as the whole investigation
started going on,

1652
01:17:16,400 --> 01:17:17,483
everything was kind of like

1653
01:17:17,483 --> 01:17:19,316
moving towards the other direction.

1654
01:17:19,316 --> 01:17:21,316
And at the end of it, I think 100%,

1655
01:17:21,316 --> 01:17:23,816
it was completely Kevin Ward's fault.

1656
01:17:23,816 --> 01:17:26,691
And I don't think the
original was the right way

1657
01:17:26,691 --> 01:17:28,650
and I don't think the
end was the right way.

1658
01:17:28,650 --> 01:17:30,650
There's a lot of gray here.

1659
01:17:30,650 --> 01:17:33,483
- Like we wanted him held accountable.

1660
01:17:33,483 --> 01:17:36,900
And you know, if you do kill somebody,

1661
01:17:36,900 --> 01:17:38,733
even if it wasn't intent,

1662
01:17:38,733 --> 01:17:40,691
like he didn't intentionally
mean to kill my brother.

1663
01:17:40,691 --> 01:17:42,358
I also do not believe that.

1664
01:17:42,358 --> 01:17:43,191
But he did.

1665
01:17:43,191 --> 01:17:45,108
His actions that he had that night

1666
01:17:45,108 --> 01:17:46,816
did cause his death.

1667
01:17:46,816 --> 01:17:50,150
And even if it does
take another five years,

1668
01:17:50,150 --> 01:17:51,691
I want his story out there,

1669
01:17:51,691 --> 01:17:54,650
the truth of what really
happened that day.

1670
01:17:54,650 --> 01:17:57,900
(poignant piano music)

1671
01:18:13,691 --> 01:18:17,025
(piano music continues)

1672
01:18:29,108 --> 01:18:31,608
(dog barking)

1673
01:18:33,900 --> 01:18:36,358
- What I admired most about him

1674
01:18:36,358 --> 01:18:37,400
is

1675
01:18:37,400 --> 01:18:39,191
his zest for life.

1676
01:18:39,191 --> 01:18:40,858
He was such a happy person.

1677
01:18:40,858 --> 01:18:43,816
He was just one of those happy-go-lucky,

1678
01:18:43,816 --> 01:18:47,775
like roll-with-anything
kind of personal attitudes.

1679
01:18:49,525 --> 01:18:52,400
Like, he just took advantage of life.

1680
01:18:54,108 --> 01:18:57,191
(solemn piano music)

1681
01:19:01,775 --> 01:19:05,775
He enjoyed his life, the
short time that he had.

1682
01:19:07,108 --> 01:19:09,066
And I miss his smile.

1683
01:19:10,150 --> 01:19:13,316
I miss the happiness he
always gave to other people.

1684
01:19:20,566 --> 01:19:22,400
He'll be missed forever, for sure.

1685
01:19:24,941 --> 01:19:28,025
(solemn piano music)

1686
01:19:40,566 --> 01:19:44,483
(solemn piano music continues)

1687
01:19:53,566 --> 01:19:57,483
(solemn piano music continues)

1688
01:20:17,150 --> 01:20:20,150
(gritty rock music)

1689
01:20:22,400 --> 01:20:25,733
♪ I came from the mud ♪

1690
01:20:25,733 --> 01:20:29,733
♪ There's dirt on my hands ♪

1691
01:20:29,733 --> 01:20:32,650
♪ Strong like a tree ♪

1692
01:20:32,650 --> 01:20:36,358
♪ There's roots where I stand ♪

1693
01:20:36,358 --> 01:20:41,358
♪ Oh I've been running from the law ♪

1694
01:20:42,525 --> 01:20:47,525
♪ Hope they won't shoot me down soon ♪

1695
01:20:50,650 --> 01:20:55,650
♪ Pacing on a sleepless night ♪

1696
01:20:56,441 --> 01:21:01,441
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1697
01:21:03,483 --> 01:21:08,483
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1698
01:21:10,691 --> 01:21:15,691
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1699
01:21:17,525 --> 01:21:22,525
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1700
01:21:26,483 --> 01:21:29,983
♪ When it rains it pours ♪

1701
01:21:29,983 --> 01:21:33,650
♪ Water's up to my chin ♪

1702
01:21:33,650 --> 01:21:37,025
♪ Won't stop fighting ♪

1703
01:21:37,025 --> 01:21:40,608
♪ To the very end ♪

1704
01:21:40,608 --> 01:21:44,025
♪ Many men try to reach it ♪

1705
01:21:44,025 --> 01:21:46,983
♪ Many men have failed ♪

1706
01:21:46,983 --> 01:21:50,483
♪ Well if you wanna get to heaven ♪

1707
01:21:50,483 --> 01:21:53,191
♪ You gotta raise a little hell ♪

1708
01:21:53,191 --> 01:21:58,191
♪ And I've been running from the law ♪

1709
01:21:58,983 --> 01:22:03,983
♪ Hope they won't shoot me down soon ♪

1710
01:22:07,066 --> 01:22:12,066
♪ Pacing on a sleepless night ♪

1711
01:22:15,025 --> 01:22:20,025
♪ Howling at the moon ♪

1712
01:22:21,275 --> 01:22:24,650
♪ Will you find me ♪

1713
01:22:24,650 --> 01:22:28,858
♪ Hope you find me ♪

1714
01:22:28,858 --> 01:22:33,858
♪ I'll be back home soon ♪

1715
01:22:34,900 --> 01:22:38,691
♪ When the sunrise ♪

1716
01:22:38,691 --> 01:22:42,608
♪ When the sun ♪

1717
01:22:42,608 --> 01:22:44,525
♪ Rise ♪

1718
01:22:54,733 --> 01:22:59,733
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1719
01:23:01,775 --> 01:23:06,775
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1720
01:23:08,650 --> 01:23:13,650
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1721
01:23:15,566 --> 01:23:20,566
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪

1722
01:23:22,483 --> 01:23:26,983
♪ Try to catch me howling at the moon ♪