NASCAR champion Tony Stewart was hospitalized with a broken leg early Tuesday morning after crashing at a sprint car race in Iowa. Brian Brown raced to victory, holding off Kyle Larson after the restart. We weren't going to win that race. Brown added: "When I saw the wreck, I turned left and hit an infield tire and kept going. Asked what he saw of Stewart's situation, Brown said: "It looked like he got into a lapped car. Brown went on to explain how he avoided the wreck. I chose the infield." Larson, one of NASCAR's rising stars, described what he observed when the wreck occurred. Larson added: "I saw Brian monster truck that tire. Larson, 21, is similar to Stewart in that he loves racing anything with four wheels. Stewart is a former Indy Racing League star and now is among the best in Sprint Cup. "He grew up racing open-wheel dirt stuff like I've been doing. He's probably the best race car driver ever," Larson said. Let's hope he's all right." Driver Tony Bruce Jr. said the wreck area was filled with debris. Cars and parts and pieces laying every which direction and it looked pretty bad. "Almost every single person in this pit area loves sprint car racing and will literally mortgage their house and everything they've got to go do it. "Heck, you could die in a street car probably easier than you could die in a race car. Hopefully he'll be okay and I'm sure we'll see him in a race car again." Following last week's flip at Ohsweken Speedway, a dirt track in Ontario, Canada, he raced the next night at the same track and finished fifth. Stewart's injury comes at a time when the spotlight on drivers who moonlight has been brighter because of a spate of deaths and injuries. It comes one day after sprint car hall of famer Kramer Williamson died after suffering injuries in a crash at a dirt track in Pennsylvania. In June, former NASCAR driver Jason Leffler died after a sprint car crash. In late May, at a dirt track in Nevada, two drivers were killed in a race. And in March in California, two people were killed when a car careened off a dirt track and crashed on pit road.