Tony Stewart Breaks Leg in Crash, Replacement Driver Yet to Be Named

Three-time Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart suffered a broken leg while competing in a sprint car race in Iowa on Monday night. The accident came just one day after Stewart finished ninth in the Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono. ESPN.com reports that Stewart was leading the 30-lap feature event when he was involved in the accident: Stewart was leading the 30-lap feature in a 360 winged sprint car with five laps remaining when a lapped car spun in Turn 4 and collected Stewart and two others. Stewart was transported to a local hospital, where surgery was performed after it was determined that he had broken both the tibia and the fibula in his right leg. The winner of the race, Brian Brown, gave the Des Moines Register his perspe...

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