In November 2000, Stewart formed Tony Stewart Racing (TSR). And what began as a single World of Outlaws (WoO) Sprint Car Series team is now a powerful four-team entry with strong footholds in the WoO and USAC. Operating out of a state-of-the-art 25,000-square-foot facility in Brownsburg, Ind., TSR fields two USAC teams and two WoO teams.

In USAC, TSR fields the No. 20 Chevrolet/GM Performance Parts entry in the Sprint car division for driver Levi Jones. And in the Silver Crown division, TSR fields a pair of entries – the No. 10 Chevrolet/GM Performance parts entry for Jones and the No. 22 Chevrolet/GM Performance Parts for driver Bryan Clauson.

In WoO, TSR fields the No. 15 STP/Armor All/Chevy/J&J for four-time series champion Donny Schatz and the No. 11 Bass Pro Shops/J.D. Byrider/Maxim Chevy for 20-time series champion Steve Kinser.

Since its formation, TSR has earned 13 owner championships – 10 in USAC and three in the WoO.

Jones captured the USAC Sprint and Silver Crown titles in 2010. Jones’ fourth career Sprint car championship gave Stewart five car owner titles in that division, while Jones’ Silver Crown triumph made Stewart that division’s winningest entrant with five titles. Stewart claimed the 2010 USAC Silver Crown title in a co-owner role with Mike Curb and Cary

Agajanian of Curb/Agajanian Racing.
Danny Lasoski earned TSR’s first championship in its inaugural season competing in the WoO, taking the 2001 championship. Schatz won two of his last four WoO titles driving for TSR in 2008 and 2009. (Schatz won the 2006 and 2007 WoO championships driving for his own family-run team.)

J.J. Yeley, Stewart’s former NASCAR teammate at Joe Gibbs Racing, earned a USAC Sprint car championship for TSR in 2003, followed by Josh Wise in 2006 and Jones in 2007, 2009 and 2010. And in a co-owner role with Bob East, TSR won four straight USAC Silver Crown championships from 2002 to 2005 with a handful of drivers that included Yeley, current NASCAR star Kasey Kahne and Dave Steele.

Additionally, TSR has five Knoxville (Iowa) Nationals championships in the WoO. Lasoski captured victories in the famed winged sprint car event in 2001, 2003 and 2004, while Schatz earned Knoxville Nationals wins for TSR in 2008 and 2009.

Secondary to winning, the mission of TSR has been to select and groom future driving talent. Just a little more than a decade into TSR’s existence, that mission has been realized.

On the heels of his 2006 USAC Sprint car title, Wise followed the path treaded by Stewart to NASCAR, where he’s currently making a go at the stock car set by competing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series and NASCAR Nationwide Series. His move onto the next level of motorsports, and the earlier advancement of Yeley who has five years of NASCAR competition, was representative of Stewart’s goal for his racing teams – to serve as a springboard into racing’s upper echelons. Ricky Stenhouse Jr., who drove for TSR for much of the 2007 season, is the most recent example of the TSR ladder system, for the 23-year-old is currently signed with Roush Fenway Racing.

Clauson has expanded TSR’s ladder system into the open-wheel ranks following his 2010 USAC National Drivers Championship. The 22-year-old won a scholarship co-sanctioned by USAC and the IZOD IndyCar Series that will see him compete in six Firestone Indy Lights (FIL) Series events in 2011. Clauson’s series FIL debut came at the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

In addition to TSR, Stewart also owns the legendary Eldora Speedway. The half-mile dirt oval is where Stewart frequently raced as an up-and-coming USAC driver, and it hosts several of the year’s largest dirt racing events. Stewart has proven to be a hands-on owner, assisting with everything from preparing the track to handing out awards during the season-ending championship banquet. Stewart is also part-owner of two other racetracks – Paducah (Ky.) International Raceway and Macon (Ill.) Speedway.

TSR is not currently accepting sponsorship proposals.