Ricky Stenhouse Jr. is no stranger to pushing his car to the limit. The veteran racer has built a reputation by wrestling every ounce of speed out of his vehicles, long before he even made a name for himself in NASCAR. Growing up in a sprint racing family, he learned very early on how to extract every last drop of performance from his machines. Perhaps that’s why by 2003, he was already winning Rookie of the Year honors in wing sprint cars. And in 2007, he stunned the dirt racing world by sweeping major USAC events and dominating the Copper on Dirt weekend.

But that same all-out, elbows-out sprint car style didn’t translate easily to stock cars. The intensity that once won him big dirt track moments started causing him trouble during his early NASCAR transition. And now, the 38-year-old d

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