Tony Stewart drove his eponymous race team's Top Fuel NHRA entry the last two years while his wife, Leah Pruett gave birth to the couple's first child in November 2024.
After two years away, Pruett will take back over her Tony Stewart Racing Top Fuel entry for 2026.
Stewart's racing plans for next year are not yet known, though the couple wouldn't rule out racing against each other in Top Fuel at some point.
Tony Stewart wanted to make one thing clear during Tuesday morning’s news conference: When NHRA veteran Leah Pruett , his wife, stepped out of Tony Stewart Racing’s Top Fuel dragster entry at the end of her two-win 2023 campaign so the pair could focus on starting a family and hand-picked Stewart as her stand-in, the NASCAR Hall of Famer’s time in TSR’s lone Top Fuel entry wa