Tony Stewart is in the "hot seat" in Texas!

With 37 laps left in the NASCAR Nextel Cup race at Texas, something broke on Stewart's car, creating a fireball from underneath. Once the car rolled to a stop on the backstretch, Stewart scrambled out quickly.

He was treated at the infield medical center and released.

"Tony has some first-degree burns," Joe Gibbs Racing spokesman Mike Arning said. "here is a small burn on the lower back of his right thigh that's about the size of a fist. The other area is on his right elbow about the size of the one on his thigh, and it's more like a bad sunburn.

"Both are minor burns, which he'll treat on his own in the coming days."

Of course, that' easy for them to say isn't it?

After leading the Samsung/RadioShack 500 twice for 45 laps, Stewart finished 31st.