Tony Stewart's SRX Season 2 Brings New Names, New Leadership

• The Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) is a six-race short-track series that kicks off Season 2 on June 18.

• All races in the all-star series will be broadcast live on CBS TV.

• Three-time NASCAR Cup champion and current team owner in NASCAR and NHRA Tony Stewart is the series' defending champion.

After a successful inaugural season in 2021, the Superstar Racing Experience (SRX) begins its sophomore campaign this Saturday at Pensacola, Florida.

Some Changes

The six-race and six-week made-for-TV short-track series featuring recently retired (and a handful of current) drivers from different racing disciplines airing on CBS—all races are on Saturday evenings from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. ET—will have several changes for its second year.

• First, longtime Charlotte Motor Speedway official Don Hawk has assumed control of the series as its CEO.

• Second, SRX co-founder and NASCAR Hall of Famer Ray Evernham has stepped down from the day-to-day operations of SRX. Evernham remains as a series investor/owner.

Hawk was initially interested in a consultant’s role, but that quickly evolved into being offered the CEO post just before Christmas last December.

“Ray Evernham stepped aside to be a pure owner and didn’t want to be an active day-to-day operations guy anymore,” Hawk told Autoweek. “That’s what they needed to replace.”

• Third, of the six racetracks on the schedule for the 2022 season, four are new from last season.

Kicking things off this Saturday, the series makes its first appearance at Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida. Going forward, the second week of the schedule will visit South Boston (Va.) Speedway (June 25).

The two holdover tracks from last season are Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford, Connecticut (July 2), and Nashville Fairgrounds in Tennessee (July 9).

Rounding out the schedule are the only two dirt tracks on the schedule: the Ken Schrader-owned I-55 Speedway in Pevely, Missouri (July 16) and the season-ending and likely championship-deciding event on July 23 at the Dave Blaney-owned Sharon Speedway in Hartford, Ohio.

“The biggest changes are just the ability to add on to what you already have and try to equal or do better, that’s always the objective,” Hawk said. “We had an outstanding Year 1, so the focus now is to build on Year 1. We won’t settle for mediocrity, we’re shooting for the moon.”

The Drivers

SRX co-founder and NASCAR Hall of Famer Tony Stewart returns as the series champion and will compete in all six races this year.

Here’s a list of other drivers that will compete either full-time or part-time: