This July 5, 2014, photo provided by Empire Super Sprints, Inc., shows sprint car driver Kevin Ward Jr., posed in victory lane at the Fulton Speedway in Fulton, N.Y. Tony Stewart says the death of Ward will "affect my life forever" as he returned to the track for the first time since his car struck and killed the fellow driver during a sprint-car race in New York. Stewart spoke Friday, Aug. 29, 2014 at Atlanta Motor Speedway in Hampton, Ga., for the first time Ward died at an Aug. 9, dirt-track event in upstate New York. (AP Photo/Empire Super Sprints, Inc.)