Meet the baddest man in motorsport

A driver like Tony Stewart makes us realise just how dull most modern F1 drivers are. In a recent, must-read interview with Rolling Stone magazine, the two-time Nascar champ revealed what motivates him: “Pussy, money and race cars. That’s pretty much all I care about.”

No F1 driver has the balls to come out with such a line. They’d be too worried about upsetting sponsors or besmirching the F1 global brand - fair enough, F1 is a very different environment to Nascar. But we can’t even think of an F1 driver who has a similarly brazen philosophy to Stewart’s. Kimi likes a drink and Lewis loves the ladies but neither comes close to matching the sheer fuck-youness of the man they call Smoke.

Other amazing stuff we learned from the interview:

• Tony enjoys “pussy”. A lot. “My parents are afraid my dick’s gonna rot off,” he says.

• Tony used to travel with a pet monkey, Mojo, on his private jet but got rid of it because it was “the wrong breed”.

• He owns more than 50 cars (including a Hummer with a broken windscreen). Because he can.

• Tony doesn’t read. “You wanna hide something from me, put it in a book,” he admits.

• He likes doughnuts. A lot.

As you can see, cut Tony Stewart and he bleeds redneck. But how refreshing it is to hear a pro athlete (ahem) say what’s on his mind, all the time. F1 needs an XXL character like Stewart to shake up its sterile paddock.

[Rolling Stone]

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