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1. transcript of interview with Tony Stewart at the Daytona Media day. Here is an excerpt with some of his answers to questions about rookie NNS driver Kyle Larson

1. Q. It seems like you may have a kindred spirit in Kyle Larson. Both of you share an appetite for racing. He wins this championship on the last lap of the last race. What do you see in him that reminds you of you? 
1. TONY STEWART: I think he reminds me of a lot better than me. Everything he's got, I mean everything. Even when he got in a stockcar the first time, it was just natural to him. Go from lightweight car to a heavy car is a hard adjustment for a lot of drivers. It's a lot easier to go from a heavier car to a lighter car. To watch him run his first couple races in a stockcar, that's what shows you this kid just has natural driving ability. He's just good in whatever he gets in. 
2. Q. Last fall at New Hampshire, wins a race. You send him to Eldora, he wins there. Is that symbolic of what he can do, his potential?
1. TONY STEWART: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, the hard part of that day for us is we throw him on the jet. He goes up and wins in somebody else's midget, crashes in somebody else's Sprint car, and he's supposed to start on the pole in my Silver Crown car. Never got the chance to do it because he crashed the Sprint car and got hurt. It does, it shows how versatile he is. He's the kind of guy, I've been around a lot of wing Sprint car races, I don't think he ran a lot of that, but he ran a lot of non-wing races. The wing races we'd go to, you would watch how quick he adapts to it. It amazes you how good he is.
3. Q. Is he the next generation type star?
1. TONY STEWART: Yeah. You can bet the farm on it. I guarantee it. If not, you can take everything I own because I'm that confident. 
4. Q. Pretty stout prediction. 
1. TONY STEWART: It's not a matter of if, it's when.
5. Q. Is he just smart? Pretty intelligent for his age. 
1. TONY STEWART: I don't know how smart he is, I just know he's good. I mean, you watch him, in between racing, he'll be playing video games on his phone. He just naturally gets in it and he's fast. He just has that ability. The great thing is he's still a kid and he still acts like a kid. Nobody's tried to make him grow up too fast, put pressure on him to do anything. He just gets in and does it. That's something that I don't see there being any red flags with him. I've seen good drivers in the past that have come up and you see red flags, you see problems or hurdles they're going to have to cross in their career. He doesn't have any of those signs. 

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