“Makes Zero Sense” – Tony Stewart and Brad Keselowski Agree Over Common Problem in NASCAR and Motorsports

Back in the day in order to compete in the NASCAR would have be to at least 21 years of age as well as owning a driver’s license. However, over the last couple of decades, there has been an increasing number of people who have been entering these events at a much lower age. This trend seems to be bothering the likes of Tony Stewart and Brad Keselowski.

According to them, putting people so young into these cars is only going to pose a detriment to the sport. Both the team owners believe that the age bar should be raised in order to solve the matter of having someone who isn’t mature enough to handle themselves in such intense formats of racing.

Tony Stewart does not like the direction NASCAR is headed in

Stewart who had won three championships in the NASCAR Cup Series and several other formats of motorsports, would of course know when it is the right time and age for a driver to get into a certain level right? Well, as per Autoweek, Stewart made comments highlighting how every motorsport these days had younger folks grace the race track.

Stewart mentioned, “I don’t like the direction motorsports is going as a whole. I’m not just picking on NASCAR. There are series putting kids in late models at 12 and 14 (years old). It makes zero sense to me.”

Of course, in the racing world, there are going to be exceptions where drivers can be extremely gifted and rise up the ladder really quickly. But according to Stewart, putting young kids in late-model cars this early isn’t something that makes sense to him.

Brad Keselowski agrees with Tony Stewart’s statement

Similarly, Keselowski also spoke about the point raised by Tony Stewart regarding the age of certain drivers. He mentioned that across motorsports there should be an age limit before anyone is allowed to enter.

Keselowski stated, “We did a disservice to our sport and to our industry when we reduced the age limits for all of these different garages. Not just for the industry itself, but probably more specifically for the kids that we did it for. I think we really hurt them. We hurt them in their ability to develop their own lives.”

He added, “It’s significantly too low for the maturity level that you can expect of someone at those ages to be able to handle these challenges and tasks. It’s unfair to them. It ends up limiting their ability to grow as a person. I think that hurts them later in their lives.”

One might agree that the maturity level only comes with experience on the race track. Therefore moving young people up the ladder so quickly would end up being detrimental to them in the longer run. This can also be attributed to Kyle Busch’s earlier respect in the garage argument. Where he mentioned that the younger people coming into the series, had no respect for the ones that had been already there in the sport.

That in turn would translate to on-track recklessness among other things as well.