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2011 Shaping Up As Worst Season Of Smoke’s Career

T.C. — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 03:30:37 +0000

For Tony Stewart, Saturday night’s Cup race at Bristol was one to forget. After qualifying a dismal 42nd, Stewart rode around in the back all night and finished 28th. He was never higher than 28th on the leaderboard, and of the drivers that ran the entire race, Stewart had the seventh worst driver rating. It [...]

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NASCAR Takes Wins Away?!

T.C. — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 04:54:23 +0000

Last weekend at New Hampshire was a big weekend for Ryan Newman. Not only did he pick up his first Cup Series win of the season, but he also took down his third straight Whelen Modified win at the track. Newman won in a car owned and prepared by Earnhardt Ganassi Racing crew chief Kevin [...]

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The Race To The Chase Is On

Journo — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 06:30:46 +0000

Sunday’s race at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway, dominated by fuel mileage, mistakes, and both Stewart Haas cars continued what has been a season of parity and added another contender to the Chase for the Sprint Cup. Ryan Newman’s victory made him the 13th different winner after 19 races this season and gave him a [...]

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Richmond Keeps The Drama Rolling

T.C. — Mon, 02 May 2011 05:21:38 +0000

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A New NASCAR Season Spawns Hope, Optimism and Nervousness

Bob Zeller — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 17:40:00 +0000

Filed under: Jamie McMurray, Juan Pablo Montoya, Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, NASCAR Testing, Sprint Cup, Earnhardt-Ganassi Racing, Stewart-Haas Racing, NASCAR, Charlotte Motor Speedway

KANNAPOLIS, N.C. -- Painted high on the walls of the sprawling setup room at the Stewart-Haas Racing team shop here are inspirational quotes from Winston Churchill, Thomas Paine, Lyndon B. Johnson and Vince Lombardi, among others, as well as Satchel Paige, the legendary African-American baseball player who made his name as a pitcher rather than a great politician or statesman.

Yet it is Paige's quote -- "Don't look back, something might be gaining on you" -- that seems to best typify the dead-of-winter mood in the race shops scattered around the greater Charlotte area.

Nearly all the teams and drivers are once again filled with hope and enthusiasm, but everyone has to be wondering nonetheless how their season will play out. Will they be competitive right out of the box? Have other teams gained some kind of a little advantage?

"It's just who made the bigger gains" during the off-season and preparing for 2011, said Tony Stewart as the annual Charlotte Motor Speedway media tour, with some 200 media members in attendance, made a stop at his Kannapolis shop Monday afternoon for a visit with him and teammate Ryan Newman.

Chip Ganassi, co-owner of Earnhardt Ganassi Racing, echoed the thought earlier Monday during a luncheon with the team. Although both of his drivers, Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya, won races in 2010, "there are lots of places we can improve," he said. "You're looking at that all the time. It's a constant process of looking at yourself and looking at the team."

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2010 Team Reviews: Stewart-Haas Racing Steps Back

Geoffrey Miller — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:36:00 +0000

Filed under: Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Sprint Cup, Stewart-Haas Racing, NASCAR

Not everyone doubted Tony Stewart when he announced his departure from Joe Gibbs Racing in 2008 to form his own Sprint Cup team, Stewart-Haas Racing.

But he will certainly note, as will anyone else around at that point, that so many people from so many corners of NASCAR thought the two-time champion was committing career suicide.

Instead, 2009 proved to be about as far from the gloomy predictions as possible when both Stewart and teammate Ryan Newman qualified for NASCAR's championship battle. Their campaigns in the 2009 Chase to the Sprint Cup were to little avail, but seemed to paint a soon-to-be-dominant future for the race team.

Comparatively, 2010 was a step back for the SHR team -- back to about the level most thought Stewart would be competing at by now.

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Clint Bowyer Moseying Toward His Place in Chase for the Sprint Cup

Holly Cain — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 16:48:00 +0000

Filed under: Clint Bowyer, Ryan Newman, Chase for the Sprint Cup, NASCAR

RICHMOND, Va. -- Sporting a cat-ate-the-canary grin and a hint of swagger, Clint Bowyer moseyed into the press room at Richmond International Speedway Friday morning and all but declared that his berth is secure in NASCAR's Chase for the Championship.

"What is it 100, 117, 107 points? I don't even know, but I've got a pretty good pad,'' Bowyer said. "With any luck at all -- any luck at all -- we'll be in this thing. If we're not, I'd say it was not meant to be.''

Interestingly enough, it is exactly the same philosophy his closest challenger Ryan Newman is employing for Saturday's Air Guard 400, the final race to set the 12-driver Chase.

"I don't know what the math is, but I can't expect to have it (points deficit) all made up in one race,'' Newman said.

Bowyer holds a 117-point advantage over 13th place Newman in the Sprint Cup Series standings and would be the final driver to qualify for the 10-race Chase playoff that begins next weekend in New Hampshire.

Daytona 500 winner Jamie McMurray is 128 points back and Mark Martin is still mathematically eligible, 147 points behind Bowyer.

The only drama Saturday night would be if Bowyer somehow did not maintain his position.

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Ryan Newman, Joey Logano Face Off After Tangling in Race

Bob Zeller — Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:46:00 +0000

Filed under: Ryan Newman, NASCAR Crashes, NASCAR Fights, Sprint Cup, Joey Logano, NASCAR

It looked like a heavyweight boxer eye-to-eye with a lightweight at the official weigh-in of a boxing match as stocky Ryan Newman faced down with skinny Joey Logano in the garage area of Michigan International Raceway after Newman drew the short stick in a racing encounter in the Carfax 400.

Logano was inside of Newman as they battled side by side for 15th place through turns three and four on lap 148. Logano's car became loose and began to wiggle and slide up toward Newman's car. Newman was almost past Logano's car when Logano's right front made contact with Newman's left rear, sending Newman for a long slide sideways through the turn.

Newman didn't hit anything, regained control and went to a 23rd place finish, while Logano finished 10th.

Afterwards, there they stood, face to face, with Newman on the offense, and clearly not liking the explanation he was hearing from Logano. Just a few feet away, a raft of cameramen recorded the encounter. As the discussion continued, Newman seemed to become more upset and at one point it almost seemed to get physical.

Seconds later, NASCAR officials stepped in and separated the drivers.

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Denny Hamlin Stays Honest Despite NASCAR’s Secret Fine

Bob Zeller — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:22:00 +0000

Filed under: Denny Hamlin, Kevin Harvick, Kurt Busch, Kyle Busch, Ryan Newman, Sprint Cup, NASCAR

The top 12 Sprint Cup drivers came through the Pocono Raceway media center one by one Friday, sitting down in front of the microphone in a four-hour-plus orgy of content providing, knowing that anything they said can and will be used against them, either by NASCAR or the media or both.

It was the first weekly press session in the Sprint Cup series in the wake of Monday's Associated Press story that NASCAR had secretly fined two drivers for negative comments about the sport, with one being a $50,000 fine.

Most of the drivers more or less circled the wagons and said they understood and supported their sanctioning body's actions because if it's for the good of the sport, it's okay, and who better to decide than NASCAR.

But it was Denny Hamlin who, after confirming he was one of those fined, really stepped up to the plate of honesty and frankness, criticizing NASCAR's decision to keep the fine a secret and blaming his fine in part on his penchant for Tweeting.

Hamlin said he told NASCAR officials he was raised to be honest. And he still was Friday, despite the fine and potential for more. His honesty was rewarded with 17 straight questions on the subject, to which he provided 17 honest answers, come NASCAR-hell or high water.

Hamlin wouldn't say how much his fine was, but "there's been illegal parts in the garage that have not gotten hit as bad as I did."

Hamlin said he thought his Tweeting was to blame for at least some of his fine. "It's more than likely the Twitter comments more than anything that kind of got me in trouble with them," he said. "They did give me a pretty good log book of all the negative things I've had to say over the last couple of months."

The other driver who was secretly fined, Ryan Newman, also confirmed that fact but said he was frustrated about the fine "because I didn't understand what it was or why it was," the Associated Press reported.

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Ryan Newman Wins the Pole for the Coca-Cola 600

Vinny — Fri, 28 May 2010 03:06:25 +0000

Ryan Newman put the No. 39 US Army Chevrolet on the pole for the Coca-Cola 600 to give Chevrolet 600 poles in NASCAR Sprint Cup Series competition. It is Newman’s ninth pole at Charlotte Motor Speedway and the 46th of his career to move him in a tie with NASCAR Hall of Famer Junior Johnson [...]

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