Why did NASCAR superstar Tony Stewart gun his engine just before he in Upstate New York? Stewart, the retired 3-time stock car champion, said he was shocked to hear people accuse him of intentionally driving at Kevin Ward Jr.

Known simply as the Tony Stewart Foundation, the 501(c)(3) organization’s goal is to raise funds primarily distributed to serving three specific groups – chronically ill and physically disabled children, animals that are endangered or at-risk and drivers injured in the sport of motor racing.

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In 2014 at the Canandaigua Motorsports Park. For the first time, Stewart offered his side of the story as part of hundreds of pages recently submitted to the court in a federal lawsuit. They cover admissions of previous racetrack outbursts for both Stewart and Ward, detailed reconstructions of the collision created by experts for both sides, firsthand versions from witnesses, and a statement from a woman who both dated Stewart and raced against Ward. A local grand jury declined to press criminal charges against Stewart.

But the lawsuit questions: Was Ward Jr.' S death a tragic accident or the result of recklessness from a hot-headed superstar?