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CUP: No News For Newman
Written by: Tom Jensen   
07/22/2008 - 04:02 PM
Indianapolis, In.
 
Ryan Newman is still weighing his options for 2009. (Rusty Jarrett/Getty Images Photo) ยป More Photos

Indiana native Ryan Newman said Tuesday that he has not decided about where he will drive in 2009, despite rampant rumors that he will join fellow Hoosier Tony Stewart at Stewart Haas Racing next year.

“I still have choices,” Newman said during a NASCAR videoconference Tuesday afternoon. “I’m getting closer to making that choice and that decision, but I have no answers yet.”

Newman said that sorting through the maze of offers from various owners and drivers has been en eye-opening experience. “Honestly, I never really realized why they called it ‘Silly Season,’” Newman said of the annual driver-team-sponsor mating game that goes on in NASCAR. “After dealing through all the dealings, in a roundabout way, it is kind of silly. It’s the way you have to deal with — just let’s say the politics of the situation and try to sort things out. It takes away from your main goal, which is driving. … It takes a lot more effort than I ever thought it would.”

The Purdue graduate compared leaving Penske Racing, his NASCAR home since his first Sprint Cup race in 2000, and looking for a new home to being a high-school student looking for a date.

“Maybe it’s like being in high school and having a bunch of girls,
and you have the opportunity to date one or the other and you don’t know the time line of how everything’s going to go,” said Newman. “You don’t know when you’re going to get a date, you don’t know … it just happens. Maybe on a Friday night, you go out. I think that’s kind of how it’s going to work out for me. It’s just going to take some time for things to mesh from a people standpoint. It’s just like chemistry. It just happens.”

Tom Jensen is the Senior NASCAR Editor for SPEEDtv.com, the former Executive Editor of NASCAR Scene and a contributing Editor for TruckSeries.com. He is the author of “Cheating: The Bad Things Good NASCAR Nextel Cup Racers Do In Pursuit of SPEED,” and has appeared on television and radio shows to discuss NASCAR racing. Jensen is the President of the National Motorsports Press Association. Jensen is the 1997 National Motorsports Press Association Writer of the Year and has won numerous national and state awards for news reporting, columns and feature writing. The Answer Man is back at SPEEDtv.com. Tom Jensen answers your questions during every race week and looks forward to hearing from you - please e-mail it to


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