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Ryan Newman
/ NEWMAN FIGHTS BACK FROM ADVERSITY IN DAYTONA |
on: Jul 7th, 2009, 5:37pm |
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Though he drove a wrecked car for more than half the race, Ryan Newman managed to pull off a 20th-place finish in Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 Sprint Cup race at Daytona International Speedway.
The result didn't alter Newman's position in the driver point standings. He remains seventh and actually increased his margin of being in Chase contention. He is now 134 points from the Chase cutoff (13th position). He came into the race 79 points ahead of 13th. It was a net gain of 55 points.
Newman's teammate, Tony Stewart, won the race and remains first in driver points.
Newman, who started the 400-mile event from the seventh position, got collected in a 13-car accident on Lap 78 of 160. His No. 39 U.S. Army/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS suffered heavy left-side damage, which resulted in nine unscheduled pit stops throughout the race as the crew made continuous repairs to the crippled car.
"We were severely handicapped after the accident," said Newman. "But we made the most out of what we had to work with. It was another never give up U.S. Army effort."
After getting back on the lead lap following a caution on Lap 154, Newman's tenacity paid off as he gained nine positions in the closing four green-flag laps.
"That late charge by Ryan earned us 27 points -- and that could make a difference from making or not making the Chase," offered crew chief Tony Gibson. "We had a lot of damage after the accident and the Army car was a handful for Ryan to drive. It wasn't a great day, but it could have been a lot worse."
The next stop for Newman and the No. 39 team will be Saturday night (July 11) at Chicagoland Speedway in Joliet, Ill.
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Tony Stewart
/ Tony Stewart wins the Coke Zero 400 |
on: Jul 7th, 2009, 5:34pm |
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Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Burger King Chevrolet Impala SS, led the two-car Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) contingent at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway by winning Saturday night’s Coke Zero 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race.
Stewart, who led nine times for a race-high 86 laps in the 160-lap event, slipped past momentary race leader Kyle Busch several hundred yards from the finish line to score his second point-paying Sprint Cup victory of the season, his third career point-paying win at Daytona, and the 35th of his career in 374 Sprint Cup starts. Busch, who took the lead from Stewart coming to the white flag, slid up the track as Stewart made an outside move. The two cars touched, and Busch ended up spinning into the SAFER Barrier that lines the outside retaining wall. He was unhurt.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 U.S. Army/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS for SHR, finished 20th. Newman recovered from an early race, multi-car accident and several unscheduled pit stops for repair work to get back on the lead lap seven laps from the finish. He picked up nine spots before the checkered flag dropped.
Stewart remains atop the championship point standings, as his victory expanded his lead to 180 points over second-place Jeff Gordon. Newman remained seventh in the standings, 484 points out of first.
Jimmie Johnson finished .110 of a second behind Stewart in the runner-up slot, while Denny Hamlin, Carl Edwards and Kurt Busch rounded out the top-five. Marcos Ambrose, Brian Vickers, Matt Kenseth, Juan Pablo Montoya and Elliott Sadler comprised the remainder of the top-10.
There were eight caution periods for 30 laps, with six drivers failing to finish the 400-mile race.
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Ryan Newman
/ NEWMAN OVERCOMES ADVERSITY TO PLACE FIFTH AT POCON |
on: Jun 10th, 2009, 4:58pm |
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Overcoming adversity was the name of the game for Ryan Newman and the No. 39 Haas Automation Demo Day/U.S. Army team in Sunday's Pocono 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono (Pa.) Raceway. The team battled back after successfully trouble-shooting an engine misfire to score a fifth-place finish, which moved Newman up one spot to fourth in the championship point standings. It was Newman's sixth consecutive top-10 finish, with five of the last six race finishes being top-fives.
While the No. 39 team was happy with its hard-fought fifth-place effort, the entire Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) organization celebrated the team's first point-paying victory as Newman's teammate Tony Stewart cruised to victory in the 200-lap race. Stewart won after starting last in the 43-car field in a backup Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet. Stewart led twice for 39 laps en route to his 34th career Sprint Cup victory and first of the season. The co-owner of SHR along with Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation became the first driver/owner to win a Sprint Cup race since Ricky Rudd on Sept. 27, 1998 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway - a span of 375 races.
"Congratulations to everybody at Stewart-Haas Racing," Newman said following the race. "It was a great team effort and I'm happy to be a part of it. When you get both cars in the top-five, it's not by luck. I'm just happy we finally got the trophy here for everyone in this organization.
"And my hat's off to my Haas Automation Demo Day crew today. We had a spark plug problem, and the guys did a great job on pit road getting everything changed. We got lucky just being able to stay on the lead lap with the Haas Automation Chevrolet. It was a good run for our guys to be able to fight back."
Newman had one of the fastest cars in practice at Pocono on Saturday, however, handling issues plagued him early in the Pocono 500 and saddled him in the middle of the field. Following a pit stop at lap 78, Newman told crew chief Tony Gibson that the car's biggest problem wasn't the handling. Instead, he said that he had been experiencing an intermittent miss in the engine of the No. 39 Chevrolet. Newman said that he noticed the problem a couple of times earlier in the race, but it had continually gotten worse. As he circled the 2.5-mile triangle, Gibson and the No. 39 team began trouble-shooting the issue and attempted to diagnose the cause of the problem.
When the caution flag waved at lap 103, Newman came down pit road. The crew raised the hood and furiously worked to change the distributor cap and the plug wires in an attempt to repair the problem. While working under the hood, the team was able to determine that the problem stemmed from the number seven cylinder. But in order to stay on the lead lap, Newman had to return to the track without the repairs completed so the problem persisted.
In order for the team to get another chance at fixing the problem, Newman and the No. 39 team needed another caution. Luckily, the caution waved once more at lap 112. Newman came down pit road, and the hood of the No. 39 machine was raised once more so that the crew could replace what they had determined to be the cause of the problem - a faulty spark plug. Following the repairs, Newman returned to the race in 28th-place, this time back under full power. With the issue resolved, Newman steadily clicked off spots from the cars in front of him.
Newman was back in the top-15 and making his move when the caution waved for debris at lap 157. He pitted for four tires and fuel. The team opted to return to pit road a second time to top off for fuel at lap 164, and they hoped the gamble would play into their hands as many other teams elected not to pit a second time. Newman restarted the race in 20th-place, but quickly regained the lost spots as he picked up seven positions alone on lap 165. In the end, the fuel gamble paid off and helped the team move into the top-five by the time the checkered flag waved.
Stewart continues to lead the SHR driver lineup in the championship point race, as his first point-paying victory maintained his spot at the top of the point standings. Stewart has a 71-point lead over second-place Jeff Gordon. Newman gained one spot as his fifth-place finish moved him to fourth in the standings. He is 203 points behind teammate Stewart.
Carl Edwards finished 2.004 seconds behind Stewart in the runner-up slot, while David Reutimann, Gordon and Newman rounded out the top-five. Marcos Ambrose, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Jeff Burton and Sam Hornish Jr., comprised the remainder of the top-10.
There were five caution periods for 20 laps, with five drivers failing to finish the 500-mile race.
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Tony Stewart
/ Stewart Takes Care of Business at Pocono |
on: Jun 10th, 2009, 4:51pm |
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Even before the green flag dropped on Sunday’s Pocono 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race, Tony Stewart made the pundits go from asking, “Will Tony Stewart ever win again?” to “When will Tony Stewart win?”
But after the driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet Impala SS won the Pocono 500, the next question might very well be, “Will Tony Stewart ever stop winning?”
Stewart left the comfy confines of Joe Gibbs Racing after a 10-year run that produced 33 career Sprint Cup wins and two championships to become a driver/owner in 2009 with Stewart-Haas Racing, the team he co-owns with Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation – the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world.
Prior to the start of the season, many predicted that Stewart would struggle before he tasted success – if he found any success at all – for the dual role of driver/owner hadn’t bore fruit of any substance since Ricky Rudd won a Sprint Cup race on Sept. 27, 1998 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
But with a handful of top-10 finishes early in the 2009 season followed by a handful of top-five finishes that included three second-place results, it became apparent that conventional thinking did not apply to the unconventional Stewart.
Three-hundred-and-seventy-five races had passed since Rudd’s victory, the last for a driver/owner. That is until Stewart pulled his red and black and No. 14 Chevy into Pocono’s victory lane, winning a race on guile and strategy as much as guts and horsepower.
“I have to thank Office Depot, Old Spice, the U.S. Army, Coca-Cola and Chevrolet, who was the first one to say they wanted to be a part of this,” Stewart said. “This has been an awesome weekend.”
The multi-tasking Sprint Cup veteran ended the winless streak for driver/owners in impressive fashion.
When qualifying was washed out on Friday, Stewart was awarded the pole via his first-place standing in the championship points race, a spot he earned a week ago by virtue of his second-place finish in the Sprint Cup race at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. By taking the point lead, Stewart became the first driver/owner to stand atop the points since Nov. 15, 1992 when Alan Kulwicki clinched the title by 10 points over Bill Elliott at Atlanta Motor Speedway, ending a 556-race span.
But that first-place starting spot went away after Saturday morning’s first practice session. There, Stewart spun his Office Depot/Old Spice Chevy on the 2.5-mile triangle’s tunnel turn, and when the nose of his Chevy slid through the infield grass, it was gouged so badly by divots that Stewart was forced to a backup racecar.
That meant that instead of starting first in the 43-car field, Stewart would start last.
It seemed of little matter to Stewart, who cracked the top-10 before even 50 laps were completed in the 200-lap marathon. And with less than 50 laps remaining, Stewart was second only to Carl Edwards.
That’s where things got really interesting.
When the yellow caution flag waved for what would be the final time on lap 159 to pick up debris in turn three, it set the stage for a fuel mileage race, where after coming to pit road for tires and fuel, drivers and crew chiefs crunched the numbers to see if their racecars could make it the rest of the way with the fuel they had in their respective tanks.
Some teams were cutting it incredibly close, others knew they had no chance.
Stewart and crew chief Darian Grubb were not among the latter.
The duo calculated that with smart driving and sharp fuel economy they could go the distance. Making their decision somewhat easier was their pit crew’s quick work, as the No. 14 team serviced Stewart’s car faster than the crew of Edwards, as Stewart beat Edwards off pit road to take the lead.
When the green flag dropped on lap 166, Stewart was out front, with Edwards and three-time and reigning Sprint Cup champion Johnson in pursuit. But it turned out to be not much of a pursuit, for everyone was watching their respective fuel gauges. As a result, the pace backed way down, with each driver hoping the other drivers would run out of fuel.
But as Stewart came off turn three down the long frontstretch to take the checkered flag, everyone knew that Stewart wouldn’t be denied. He took the win by 2.004 seconds over Edwards to secure his 34th career Sprint Cup victory, his first point-paying win of the season and his second at Pocono.
“We had an awesome day,” said Stewart, who won his first Sprint Cup race at Pocono in June 2003. “Darian (Grubb) said we weren’t going to try to be fancy and not going to do anything tricky trying to get track position. Just going to stick to our gameplan and we did that. We never tried to take two tires to get track position or anything. We were able to get through the first half of the pack pretty quick, and once we got there, we finally started getting in better air and just had a really good car all day.
“We had a car where we were consistently in the top-three speed-wise all day, and we were able to run guys down. We were able to stay out a couple of laps longer than everybody all day. But the tradeoff to that was they would get fresh tires and two or three seconds on us, and you had to whittle that back down after we would make our stop. It was fun, though, knowing that you had a car that you could do that with.
“There at the end there, we had an awesome pit stop. And the guys have been doing such a great job all year, coming in second and coming out with a lead like that. That was really the turning point there for us at the end. And once we got that lead and we were able to hold Carl off, they went into the fuel mode and tried to conserve, and as soon as we got a little bit of a lead, we were able to do the same thing.
“It’s just at that point listening to Darian and he knows what pace we need to run. And he just kept backing me down when I would get going too hard or too quick. He would tell me he needed more and we would slow down a little more. You hate to be in that situation, but that’s a theme here when we come to Pocono. With it being such a long track like this, fuel mileage is going to be important. It was just a matter of running hard enough to stay in the lead, but slow enough to save fuel in case we had a green-white-checkered at the end.”
The win was the first point-paying victory for SHR. Stewart won the non-point NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race May 16 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, N.C., but it didn’t award any points toward the season-ending championship. The Pocono 500 did, and along with the high-fives and backslaps enjoyed in victory lane, Stewart now has a 71-point lead to enjoy over second-place Jeff Gordon heading into the series’ next race at Michigan International Speedway in Brooklyn.
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Haas Automation Demo Day/U.S. Army Chevrolet Impala SS for SHR, finished fifth in the Pocono 500 to secure his sixth consecutive top-10 finish. The result allowed Newman to gain one spot in the championship standings, bringing him to fourth, 203 points behind teammate Stewart.
Finishing third behind Stewart and Newman was David Reutimann, while Gordon and Newman rounded out the top-five. Marcos Ambrose, Jimmie Johnson, Juan Pablo Montoya, Jeff Burton and Sam Hornish Jr., comprised the remainder of the top-10.
There were five caution periods for 20 laps, with five drivers failing to finish the 500-mile race.
The next event on the Sprint Cup schedule is the June 14 LifeLock 400 at Michigan International Speedway. The race begins at 2 p.m. EDT with live coverage provided by TNT beginning with its pre-race show at 12:30 p.m.
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Ryan Newman
/ Newman Captures Pole for Coke 600 |
on: May 21st, 2009, 9:15pm |
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The U.S. Army/Haas Automation Chevrolet will lead the 43-car Sprint Cup field in Sunday's Memorial Day weekend classic -- the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe's Motor Speedway (LMS) near Charlotte.
The honor was a result of the hard-charging Ryan Newman capturing the pole in Thursday night's time trials at the 1.5-mile oval.
It was the 44th-career pole for Newman and the eighth in 17 starts at LMS. Newman has now claimed a pole in every season since 2001, the year he grabbed his first pole, which came at the Coke 600 in his third career start.
"I am very proud to have the Soldiers' car start on the pole for the Memorial Day race," said Newman. "The next goal is to put this Impala SS in Victory Lane on Sunday night. We had a good qualifying lap tonight, but to be honest I was not totally satisfied with it. But you don't have to be satisfied when you have a fast race car. We need to keep our chin up and keep doing what we've been doing. We can't be satisfied -- we have to keep on improving."
Newman's pole-winning time and speed in the No. 39 Army/Haas Automation Chevy was 28.651 seconds at 188.475 miles per hour. Rounding out the top five in order were: Kyle Busch (188.258), Jeff Gordon, Mark Martin and Jimmie Johnson.
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Tony Stewart
/ Re: Tony Stewart wins Nascar Sprint All Star Race |
on: May 21st, 2009, 11:44am |
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Congrats to Tony Stewart and the Entire Stewart-Haas Racing Team. That was a huge win for sure, and it was very cool to see Gene Haas at the track again as well, and his 1st race back get in Victory Lane.
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Ryan Newman
/ NEWMAN'S SHOT AT ALL-STAR VICTORY HALTED WITH LATE |
on: May 20th, 2009, 10:45pm |
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Ryan Newman was in contention to win Saturday night's Sprint All-Star Race, but a late-race incident relegated him to a frustrating 18th-place finish at Lowe's Motor Speedway near Charlotte.
The U.S. Army/Haas Automation driver overcame major problems early in the race, and with fewer than 10 laps remaining, he was battling for the lead and the $1 million first-place prize. But his charge to the front got stymied on Lap 92 of 100 when he got tangled in an incident with Kyle Busch and Jeff Gordon as the three drivers were running neck-and-neck for the lead.
The accident caused Newman's Army Chevrolet to slam into the wall resulting in serious right-rear damage and a cut tire. When the race was restarted on Lap 93, Newman was positioned in second place, but he could only run a lap before he was forced to retire to the garage due to the deflating tire.
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Tony Stewart
/ Tony Stewart wins Nascar Sprint All Star Race |
on: May 20th, 2009, 10:39pm |
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Tony Stewart led only once for two laps in Saturday night’s NASCAR Sprint All-Star Race at Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, N.C., but they were the most important ones, as he paced the final two circuits around the 1.5-mile oval after getting by Matt Kenseth for the lead on lap 98 of the 100-lap event. Stewart’s margin of victory over the 2003 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion was .971 of a second.
It was Stewart’s first victory as driver/owner for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR), which he co-owns with Oxnard, Calif.-based Haas Automation, the largest CNC machine tool builder in the western world. He became the first driver/owner to win a NASCAR Sprint Cup sanctioned event since Ricky Rudd won a point-paying race in October 1998 at Martinsville (Va.) Speedway.
It was also the first All-Star race win for Stewart, who had four top-10 finishes in 10 previous starts in the event. Stewart became the second driver/owner to win the All-Star Race, joining Geoff Bodine, who accomplished the feat in 1994.
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Ryan Newman
/ Ryan Newman finishes 4th at Richmond |
on: May 3rd, 2009, 11:07pm |
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Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 U.S. Army/Haas Automation Chevrolet Impala SS for SHR, started 10th and led four times for 45 laps before finishing fourth. It was his second consecutive top-five and his fourth top-10 of the year.
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