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NASCAR driver Tony Stewart spoke to the media on Monday (29th September) following the death of Kevin Ward Jr.

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SOUNDBITE: (English) Tony Stewart

"As a race a car driver - driving a race car - that's all that's consumed my life. That's all I've thought about, it's all I've cared about. And everything else was second on down the list of priorities for me and I think this this has given me the opportunity to sit here and think about other aspects of my life and what they really are going to mean to mean to me in the future. Not that I don't love what I do, because I do love it. But it's not - just like you guys - it's not what we do all the time, there are more things to our lives than what we have as a profession. So the first three or four days I didn't want to talk to anybody, I didn't want to see anybody, I just wanted to be by myself. But you finally get up. You finally start moving around a little bit. Every day it got a little bit easier, but it was a big drastic change from what I was used to to for sure. But you didn't have a desire to anything. All you thought about was what happened and asking yourself why. Why did this happen? And you just sat there for entire days on end just asking yourself the question and trying to come to terms with what happened and why it happened."