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Jeremy Mayfield a No-Show at Daytona

Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 4:30 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Kasey Kahne, Ryan Newman, Daytona Int'l Speedway, Sprint Cup

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Jeremy MayfieldDAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- Jeremy Mayfield did not bring his race team to Daytona International Speedway Thursday, despite getting the go-ahead from the U.S. District Court in Charlotte on Wednesday.

Mayfield, an owner-driver in NASCAR's Sprint Cup Series, was suspended indefinitely by NASCAR on May 9 after allegedly testing positive for methamphetamine on May 1. He has repeatedly denied that he took the illegal drugs, insisting the test was a false positive -- the result of mixing a prescription drug and a common allergy medication.

Mayfield has sued NASCAR over the test results, and Wednesday U.S. District Judge Graham Mullen ruled he could compete until his trial, saying the damage to Mayfield's reputation and career exceeded the potential damage done to NASCAR.
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Ryan Newman Live Chat from Daytona

Posted: Jul 2nd 2009 12:00 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Greg Biffle, Ryan Newman, Daytona Int'l Speedway, Sprint Cup

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Join driver Ryan Newman trackside at Daytona International Speedway Friday at 3 PM ET for a live chat with FanHouse readers. Newman, who drives the No. 39 U.S. Army-sponsored Chevrolet for Stewart-Haas Racing, is ranked seventh in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. The 2008 Daytona 500 winner enters Saturday night's Coke Zero 400 with eight top-10s, and his best showing in Daytona's summer race is 11th. This is your chance to catch up with one of the season's biggest success stories.

Also, 2003 Daytona race winner Greg Biffle, driver of the No. 16 3M Ford Fusion, will join FanHouse for a live chat at 3 PM ET on Saturday.

Chat with Ryan Newman after the jump.
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Calls for NASCAR to Reveal Mayfield's Drug Violation Not Neccessary

Posted: May 15th 2009 11:12 AM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, NASCAR Rumors, Sprint Cup

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Ryan Newman jumped on the bandwagon Thursday night asking for NASCAR to become a tell-all of Jeremy Mayfield's apparent drug use.

"I think everyone wants a list right now," said Newman of NASCAR's banned substances. "The whole system would be fixed if they just tell us what Jeremy did."

Sadly, Newman couldn't be more wrong because such a list wouldn't 'fix' a problem and the precedent set by both NASCAR and other major sports leagues has said that revealing an accused user's drug of choice is not an option.
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Believe It: Stewart-Haas Ready to Win

Posted: May 3rd 2009 5:01 PM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Stewart-Haas Racing

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There's a lot of folks in the NASCAR world that said Tony Stewart was straight crazy to leave his championship-winning team of Joe Gibbs Racing for the 2009 season.

Me? I didn't exactly make a prediction to stay on the safe side, mainly because I know how Stewart always produces when the odds are against him.

But for all of those that said Stewart and hired teammate Ryan Newman wouldn't find success, the still-young Stewart-Haas Racing is proving the doubters to be completely wrong.
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David Ragan Claims 1st NASCAR Win

Posted: Apr 25th 2009 6:39 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Dale Earnhardt Jr., David Ragan, Ryan Newman, Nationwide Series

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TALLADEGA, Ala. -- After competing in nearly 200 races in NASCAR's three marquee series, David Ragan picked up his first victory in Saturday's Nationwide Series race at Talladega Superspeedway besting, among others, restrictor plate expert Dale Earnhardt Jr.

Ragan positioned his No. 6 Discount Tire Ford just behind the lead pack cars of Ryan Newman, Earnhardt and veteran Tony Raines in the final laps. And when the typical Talladega last lap scramble broke out, Ragan slipped by for the checkered flag about six feet in front of Newman. Joey Logano, Raines and Earnhardt rounded out the top 5.

As Ragan made his maiden trip to Victory Lane, most drivers -- including Earnhardt and Newman -- stepped out onto pit to congratulate the 23-year-old.
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Questions Arise for Bristol Lap Record

Posted: Feb 26th 2009 5:04 PM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, Bristol Motor Speedway, Other Racing Series

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Bristol Motor Speedway's public relations department got a nice kick this week thanks to a few NASCAR Whelen Modified Series drivers putting down some impressively fast laps at on the high banks of the half-mile east Tennessee track.

The laps, according to the track, were "record-breaking" because they eclipsed Ryan Newman's 2003 lap of 14.908 seconds (128.709 mph) during Sprint Cup qualifying at the track.

It turns out, thanks to the ever-mindful Jayski, that the laps might not have been so record-breaking after all.
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Blown Tire Puts Daytona in Chaos for Stewart-Haas Racing

Posted: Feb 14th 2009 12:31 PM ET by Holly Cain (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, Daytona Int'l Speedway

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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- It's pretty much the worse case scenario for the Stewart-Haas Racing debut.

Defending Daytona 500 winner Ryan Newman's Chevrolet blew a tire in the final minutes of practice for Sunday's Daytona 500 and the wreck collected the car immediately behind him – his team owner, Tony Stewart.


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"Don't get them (Goodyear) anywhere near me," said Stewart, who described his emotions as "ticked, not nice and not cordial" as his crew worked feverishly to prepare his car.
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'08 Rear-View Mirror: Ryan Newman

Posted: Dec 19th 2008 12:44 AM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, Penske Racing, Sprint Cup

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Warning: Objects in this post may be the only way to successfully live through the NASCAR off-season. For best results, read rearview mirror early and often.

Driver: Ryan Newman
Team: No. 12 Penske Racing Dodge
'08 Final Standing: 18th (-3049)
Best Race: Daytona 500 (1st-place)
Worst Race: Phoenix & Talladega (43rd-place)

Season in a box: Two big things -- winning the Daytona 500 and then leaving the only team he's ever known in NASCAR -- happened to Ryan Newman that he probably didn't expect prior to the start of 2008. However, the win in the season opener and subsequent dismal season was the biggest story for the No. 12.
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Stewart Changes Ryan Newman to No. 39

Posted: Aug 19th 2008 12:24 PM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Sprint Cup

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Tony Stewart is already changing things up at newly-formed Stewart-Haas Racing, despite a car having yet to turn a lap under the team's banner.

Monday night on his radio show, Stewart decided -- or at least he informed everyone -- that Ryan Newman wouldn't be driving the No. 4 as originally planned. Instead, Newman will parade the No. 39 yet-to-be-sponsored Chevrolet in 2009.
The switch comes three days after Stewart formalized plans at Michigan International Speedway for Newman to compete with the No. 4.

Stewart offered two reasons for the change: The No. 39 is special to Newman because he won his first United States Auto Club midget race with the number, and Stewart wanted to leave the No. 4 available to its long-time carrier, Morgan-McClure Motorsports, should the team return to the Sprint Cup Series next year.
Newman has also driven the No. 39 in a number of Nationwide Series starts with Penske Racing over the past few years.

The second reason Stewart gives, though, seems more like the real reason for the switch after Tim Morgan voiced his displeasure to a Bristol, Tenn. newspaper last Friday about the SHR number selection.
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Newman Ready for Fun at Stewart-Haas

Posted: Aug 15th 2008 12:23 PM ET by Geoffrey Miller (RSS feed)
Filed Under: Ryan Newman, Tony Stewart, Chevrolet

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Despite a press conference Friday that left a lot of people with a lot of questions, Ryan Newman is officially hired on at Stewart-Haas Racing -- and a big part of that is just to simply have more "fun".
"The bottom line is that I want to have fun," said Newmanduring the Stewart-Haas press conference at Michigan International Speedway on Friday.

"I'm here to have fun and I know (Stewart) he wants to have fun doing this."
I'd assume that the definition for "fun" carries two mandates: being in contention to win more races and having a nice contract with multiple zeros at the end of the compensation line. Both drivers are known fisherman, so that might be included in the "fun" deal, too.
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