Stewart-Haas Racing News and Video » Entries tagged with "media visit"
Ryan Newman Friday All-Star Race Media Visit
RYAN NEWMAN met with members of the media at Charlotte Motor Speedway and discussed his win in the All-Star race, continuing safety in the sport, the physical demands of running 600 miles and much more. Full transcript. TALK ABOUT THE ALL-STAR RACE. “I guess just use generic words, it’s a cool event because we’re home, it’s a race all for pride, all for money and it’s a nice short race. I’ve always said it was the way we grew up and were brought up racing. Short stints, short runs, short races, all for the money and the glory. I really look forward to the opportunity. Two years ago we had a car that should have won the race and we got … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ryan Newman
Ryan Newman Press Conference Transcript
RYAN NEWMAN met with members of the media at Dover International Speedway and discussed racing at Dover, NASCAR probation and other topics. Full transcript and video at bottom: HOW HAS YOUR WEEK BEEN AND HOW DO YOU PREPARE FOR THIS WEEKEND?: “It’s one of my favorite race tracks and coming off of Darlington — it’s usually a place you can carry over some of the things you learned from there to Dover. I enjoy the race track because it doesn’t change a whole lot, but because it’s demanding as well. Having a good finish at Darlington was good for our team to get back on that path and we need to continue that here at Dover.” WHAT HAS BEEN GOING WRONG AT DOVER FOR YOU SINCE 2003 AND … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ryan Newman, Video
Tony Stewart Press Conference Transcipt
TONY STEWART met with media and discussed practice and racing at Kentucky. FULL TRANSCRIPT: HOW WAS PRACTICE? “Oh, I’m encouraged by it. I’m cautiously optimistic; we’ll see. But I was pretty happy with the way it ran in the first practice. I think we’re a lot better than the last couple of races that we’ve been here, for sure. So we’ll wait and see.” ON KENTUCKY, YOU’VE NEVER RACED THERE AND SEVERAL OTHERS. DOES THAT PUT YOU BEHIND GOING IN THERE OR IS IT GOING TO BE PRETTY SIMILAR FOR EVERYBODY? “Oh, there’s guys who have run the Nationwide race there that know the track. It’s no different than when we all ran our first races at Dover or anywhere else. We’ll have a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Tony Stewart
Tony Stewart Friday Darlington Media Visit Transcript
TONY STEWART met with media and discussed improving race car issues, last week’s race at Richmond, upcoming races at Dover and Charlotte, Mother’s Day, and more. Full Transcript: HOW WAS YOUR CAR IN PRACTICE? “Well, we only ran 15 laps, but I think we’re all right. We didn’t get out right away. We didn’t really run more than about four or five laps at a time so I’m not sure we really know 100 percent yet; but at least it looks decent on the sheet right now.” ARE YOU HAPPY WITH THAT OR WERE YOU HOPING TO GET MORE OUT OF IT? “So far I’m pretty happy with it. It seems pretty balanced. We’re just trying to figure out a couple of little things to try to anticipate what we think it’s … Read entire article »
Filed under: Tony Stewart
Ryan Newman Friday Darlington Media Visit Transcript
RYAN NEWMAN met with media and discussed the assistance his Foundation is giving to animals in the aftermath of recent tornadoes, the toll tempers can take on race teams, the incident with Juan Pablo Montoya at last week’s Richmond race, his thoughts on Dover next week, Safer Barriers, and more. Full Transcript: KERRY THARP: Ryan Newman. He’s eighth in points. Ryan, before we go into the race weekend, I know that the Ryan Newman Foundation has been very, very active of late with the tornadoes that obviously devastated the southeastern part of this country. The Greater Birmingham Alabama Humane Society, you’re going to be working with those folks to help in this cause. Talk a little bit about that. RYAN NEWMAN: We’ve got a great partnership with Iams, the pet food company, … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ryan Newman
Tony Stewart Texas Press Conference Transcript
TONY STEWART met with members of the media at Texas Motor Speedway and discussed the struggles at Martinsville, racing at Talladega and other topics. Full transcript: ARE YOU CONCERNED ABOUT THE ISSUES THAT BOTH OF YOUR CARS HAD LAST WEEK?: “The gear issue that we had — we have to look in to. That’s the first one we’ve lost this year, but we had a problem with Ryan’s (Newman) car last fall losing a gear. We’re definitely looking into that. The deal with the header and the wire — we haven’t had that issue, but at the same time we’ll still put just as much emphasis on looking into that as we do the gear side. Neither one of those variables are … Read entire article »
Filed under: Tony Stewart
Ryan Newman Friday Media Visit at Las Vegas Motor Speedway
Ryan Newman, driver of the no. 39 Haas Automation Chevrolet, met with members of the media at Las Vegas Motor Speedway and discussed the start to his season, the amount of crashes so far this season and other topics. Full transcript: TALK ABOUT THE START OF YOUR SEASON: “It is the best two-race start to the season since my Daytona 500 victory in 2008. This just really proud to get started better. I think we have done a good job so far of carrying a good run in the last 10 races of last season into the off season and turning that into a good start to the season. That isn’t easy to do. Maybe Carl Edwards is doing it just a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Ryan Newman
Recent Comments