Tony Stewart has won in pretty much everything with wheels, from go-karts, midgets, to Cup cars and dragsters. But lately, people aren’t just talking about how he drove; they’re talking about how he built drivers. And one story from former NASCAR driver Josh Wise is reminding everyone just how real that side of Smoke was.

Josh Wise accidentally wrecked his future boss

Josh Wise was only eighteen when Tony Stewart decided to bring him into the fold. Stewart moved the kid back to Indiana, got him an apartment, and made him part of every decision on the team. Wise still sounds grateful years later.

“He was awesome. He’s such an incredible human. I was only 18 years old, which is almost old by young-driver standards today, but he incorporated me into everything,” he told Katherine Legge on

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