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NEWMAN: Ready To Shine At Martinsville
It wasn’t a lot of fun last weekend at Charlotte, but we learned a lot...
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing writes Voices of SPEED on SPEED.com. (Photo: Jason Smith/Getty Images for NASCAR)
Charlotte definitely didn’t go as planned for our No. 39 Haas Automation team. I guess that’s probably an understatement.
I’ll be honest, I was pretty down about what happened there on lap two. I told my crew chief Tony Gibson that I haven’t had a car jump sideways that fast in quite a long time. It happened so fast that there was no saving it, and I just backed it into the fence.
It was a tough. It was my fault. I tried to go high, using the same move that I’ve been successful with so many times and has helped us to pass a lot of cars. But it didn’t work that time, and I just lost it.
And I can’t tell you how much I hated having a wrecked racecar on lap two at Charlotte, our home track. That’s the track where we all want to go and put on a show for our friends and families. It’s where we want to be the best of the best.
Instead, we were sitting in the garage early. I felt so bad about what happened, but Gibson was good about telling me to shake it off.
Like he said on the radio, we’re all in this together – as a team.
It wasn’t a lot of fun this (past) weekend at Charlotte, but we learned a lot. That was really the first time the No. 39 crew had fixed a pretty badly beaten up racecar at the track. You see, our other wrecks have come at restrictor plate tracks, and after we were involved in a wreck, we weren’t able to fix the car at all.
The guys did a great job making some pretty difficult repairs to the car. They sent me back out on the track, and our Chevy was still superfast.
That’s probably the hardest thing about this past weekend – we were definitely a contender. We had a good, fast racecar. And I feel we would have had a top-five, at the very least, if things had worked out for us, but that’s last week’s news.
That’s the thing about racing. You have to shake off what happened and go out there and fight for another win the next race. And this weekend, we’re going to a track where the No. 39 team has really shined – Martinsville.
For whatever reason, the short tracks have been a strength of ours from the beginning. I don’t know if it’s because I like this track or it’s because Gibson likes the short tracks and really knows how to make the cars work there. Whatever it is, we’ve been pretty darn good at Martinsville and I’m looking forward to taking the Tornados Chevy there this weekend.
In the spring, we put ourselves in position to win the race. Unfortunately, a caution flag with two laps to go set up a green-white-checker finish. I had older tires and got shuffled out of the groove, but we still finished fourth.
With the exception of Charlotte, we’ve been running consistently these past several weeks. We want another win before the season is out.
You know, I’ve never gotten a grandfather clock – and I know that’s one trophy that Krissie has had her eyes on for quite some time, now.
Ryan Newman is in his ninth full season as a driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and he’ll spend it with two-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart. Newman drives the No. 39 Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing, the team co-owned by Stewart and Haas Automation, the world’s largest machine tool manufacturer. In 2010, Newman will be sponsored by Tornados, Haas Automation and the U.S. Army. Newman is a graduate of Purdue University, where he has a degree in vehicle structure engineering. In his first eight seasons, Newman has collected 45 poles and 13 wins in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, including the 2008 Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. When not racing, Newman enjoys fishing and restoring his classic cars. The avid outdoorsman, along with his wife Krissie, play an active role in the Ryan Newman Foundation 501(c)(3), which they founded in 2005. For more information on Ryan Newman, please visit www.ryannewman.org or www.stewarthaasracing.com. Information on the Ryan Newman Foundation can be found at www.ryannewmanfoundation.org.
The opinions reflected herein are solely those of the above commentator and are not necessarily those of SPEED.com, FOX, NewsCorp, or SPEED
I’ll be honest, I was pretty down about what happened there on lap two. I told my crew chief Tony Gibson that I haven’t had a car jump sideways that fast in quite a long time. It happened so fast that there was no saving it, and I just backed it into the fence.
It was a tough. It was my fault. I tried to go high, using the same move that I’ve been successful with so many times and has helped us to pass a lot of cars. But it didn’t work that time, and I just lost it.
And I can’t tell you how much I hated having a wrecked racecar on lap two at Charlotte, our home track. That’s the track where we all want to go and put on a show for our friends and families. It’s where we want to be the best of the best.
Instead, we were sitting in the garage early. I felt so bad about what happened, but Gibson was good about telling me to shake it off.
Like he said on the radio, we’re all in this together – as a team.
It wasn’t a lot of fun this (past) weekend at Charlotte, but we learned a lot. That was really the first time the No. 39 crew had fixed a pretty badly beaten up racecar at the track. You see, our other wrecks have come at restrictor plate tracks, and after we were involved in a wreck, we weren’t able to fix the car at all.
The guys did a great job making some pretty difficult repairs to the car. They sent me back out on the track, and our Chevy was still superfast.
That’s probably the hardest thing about this past weekend – we were definitely a contender. We had a good, fast racecar. And I feel we would have had a top-five, at the very least, if things had worked out for us, but that’s last week’s news.
That’s the thing about racing. You have to shake off what happened and go out there and fight for another win the next race. And this weekend, we’re going to a track where the No. 39 team has really shined – Martinsville.
For whatever reason, the short tracks have been a strength of ours from the beginning. I don’t know if it’s because I like this track or it’s because Gibson likes the short tracks and really knows how to make the cars work there. Whatever it is, we’ve been pretty darn good at Martinsville and I’m looking forward to taking the Tornados Chevy there this weekend.
In the spring, we put ourselves in position to win the race. Unfortunately, a caution flag with two laps to go set up a green-white-checker finish. I had older tires and got shuffled out of the groove, but we still finished fourth.
With the exception of Charlotte, we’ve been running consistently these past several weeks. We want another win before the season is out.
You know, I’ve never gotten a grandfather clock – and I know that’s one trophy that Krissie has had her eyes on for quite some time, now.
Ryan Newman is in his ninth full season as a driver in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and he’ll spend it with two-time Sprint Cup champion Tony Stewart. Newman drives the No. 39 Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing, the team co-owned by Stewart and Haas Automation, the world’s largest machine tool manufacturer. In 2010, Newman will be sponsored by Tornados, Haas Automation and the U.S. Army. Newman is a graduate of Purdue University, where he has a degree in vehicle structure engineering. In his first eight seasons, Newman has collected 45 poles and 13 wins in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, including the 2008 Daytona 500 at Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway. When not racing, Newman enjoys fishing and restoring his classic cars. The avid outdoorsman, along with his wife Krissie, play an active role in the Ryan Newman Foundation 501(c)(3), which they founded in 2005. For more information on Ryan Newman, please visit www.ryannewman.org or www.stewarthaasracing.com. Information on the Ryan Newman Foundation can be found at www.ryannewmanfoundation.org.
The opinions reflected herein are solely those of the above commentator and are not necessarily those of SPEED.com, FOX, NewsCorp, or SPEED
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