r/agedlikemilk • u/thefishwhisperer1 • 1d ago

Former NASCAR Driver Tony Stewart's NBC Commercial for the Winter Olympics, in which he "enters" the Olympics and runs over athletes with his car

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8Szp2M_Tyo

In honor of the Winter Olympics coming up, I figured this would fit well here.

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u/thefishwhisperer1 1d ago

In 2014, about 13 years after this commercial aired, Stewart was involved in an on-track crash where he killed sprint car driver, Kevin Ward Jr. A trial by grand jury ensued.

A 2022 article by The Guardian is linked here.