Compared to other events that happened to Tony Stewart in 2014, a fourth surgery on his right leg in the past 17 months doesn't seem so dire.
NASCAR.com reported that Stewart was released from the hospital on Wednesday, two days after undergoing another surgery on the right leg he broke during a crash at an August, 2013 sprint car race at Southern Iowa Speedway.
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Stewart broke both the tibia and fibula in the leg, costing him the final 15 races of the 2013 season. According to The Sporting News, Stewart's first surgery was designed to stabilize the leg. Another was to have a rod inserted in the leg, and the third was to fight off an infection.
The latest surgery, which NASCAR.com reported was planned, replaced the rod in his leg. The report added that Stewart will have one more surgery still to come.
Kevin Harvick's Sprint Cup title more meaningful to Tony Stewart than to Harvick?
He was released in time to attend the Myers Brothers Luncheon on Thursday and the Sprint Cup Series Awards banquet on Friday to celebrate his driver, Kevin Harvick, winning his first Spring Cup championship - the second for Stewart-Haas Racing in the last four seasons.
NASCAR.com reported that SHR co-owner Gene Haas will sit on the stage at the head table with Harvick.
Meanwhile, Stewart will be just a member of the audience on his crutches.
After missing the last 15 races in 2013, Stewart came back in 2014 but failed to win a Cup race.
The three-time Cup champion's 2014 was a tragic season where he was driving a sprint car that struck and killed 20-year-old racer Kevin Ward Jr., who had walked onto the track and approached Stewart's car Aug. 9 at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park.
Stewart missed three races after the tragedy. He failed to make the Chase at the end of the just-concluded season.
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