Posts on ‘May 25th, 2009’

An interview with Ryan Newman, 2nd place finisher in the Coca-Cola 600.

KERRY THARP: We’ll roll into our post race press conference for the Coca Cola 600. Our race runner up is Ryan Newman. Ryan, certainly an unusual turn of events out there today. We battled rain all day long. You got a second place finish. [...]

CONCORD, N.C. – To pit or not to pit. That was the question facing the U.S. Army/Haas Automation team as more rain was headed towards Lowe’s Motor Speedway in Monday’s 50th running of the Coca-Cola 600.

Persistent rain watered down the 50th running of the Coca-Cola 600 at Lowe’s Motor Speedway near Charlotte, N.C., forcing the race to be postponed to Monday. Those same rains delayed the start of the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series’ longest race, and then interrupted it three times before finally cutting it 173 laps short of its [...]