Look at how far up the track his car moves just in those few frames. Entering the frame he's a few feet from the bottom, just like the car in front of him. He climbs more than halfway up the track by the time he hits Kevin, and there even seems to be some counter steering that you would do if you goosed the throttle.

This was posted at the iRacing forum by Jon Porzuc

This is a slow motion of the impact. You can see that Stewart's car slides up the track quite a bit, like he goosed it to spook the kid or spray him with dirt.

In slow motion you can see Stewart's car sliding up the track quite a bit as he hits Ward.

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I'm looking forward to the inevitable Jalopnik Autonomous Car Sub-Blog.

You don't fuck with the Tifosi.

Luigi goin' all Caracciolla on that sumbitch

I would like to sub(scribe) to the sub(marine) sub-blog.

Nuremberg and Nürburg are two different cities in Germany.

Also Audioslave > Soundgarden

Pacer

You should get "WHY THE FUCK IS HE IN HERE?" on a business card.

...and you know what you're doing, so I'll just leave you alone.

Moar buses

Pave all of the runoffs, shave down the angry curbs, push the barriers back to meet modern safety standards and reprofile all of the corners in to something that looks like it was drawn with a ruler, compass and protractor.