'Smoke' Stewart launches new sauce.

Having become well know for giving the odd 'flavourful' quote to the media, Tony Stewart has now put his name to a new range of barbeque sauces.

Stewart put his name on the 'Smoke Bar-B-Que' sauce after sampling it in recent months, with the launch coming less than a week after the driver - nicknamed smoke during his formative years competing in United States Auto Club and IRL IndyCar events - got 'barbequed' himself when he suffered an engine fire during the Nextel Cup event in Texas.

"We thought we'd strike while the iron was hot!" he said. "The barbeque sauce was ready and we were ready to unveil it - I just happened to get a little barbequed myself. It wasn't funny when I was in the care centre at Texas, but there's definitely some humour in it now. I haven't had an explosion like that since I was leading the Indy 500 in 1998.

"But seriously, the sauce is good - great, in fact. If it weren't, my name wouldn't be on it."

The sauce can be purchased online at www.smoke20.com.