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Stewart-Haas Racing Subway Fresh Fit 500k Race Report
Ryan Newman, driver of the No. 39 Tornados Chevrolet Impala, led the two-car Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) contingent at Phoenix International Raceway by finishing fifth in Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500k NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race. Newman led twice for seven laps en route to his sixth top-five finish in 18 career Sprint Cup starts at the 1-mile oval and his first top-five finish this season. Tony Stewart, driver of the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet Impala for SHR, led four times for 59 laps and finished seventh. It was his 10th top-10 finish in 19 career Sprint Cup starts at Phoenix and his first top-10 finish of 2011. The last time both SHR cars finished in the top-10 came in last year’s season finale at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Newman finished seventh, … Read entire article »
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Ryan Newman Scores a Top-Five Finish for Dollar General and Turner Motorsports
AVONDALE, Ariz. – NASCAR Sprint Cup Series star, Ryan Newman, returned to the NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) this weekend with Turner Motorsports and Dollar General Racing. As defending winner of Sunday’s Sprint Cup Series event, Newman and his No. 30 team had high hopes for the weekend and they were not disappointed. Sporting a reverse black and yellow Dollar General paint scheme, he powered his No. 30 Impala to a fourth-place finish after 200 blistering fast laps. With cloudy skies overhead, Newman hit the track 24th in Saturday morning’s qualifying session, laying down a lap good enough to place him sixth in line to start the Bashas’ Supermarkets 200 later that day. As the field took the green flag, Newman immediately wheeled his Dollar General Chevrolet into the top-five, … Read entire article »
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Tony Stewart Meets the Media at Phoenix
TONY STEWART met with members of the media at Phoenix International Raceway and discussed the end of the Daytona 500, repaving at Phoenix and other topics. Full transcript: HOW HAS PRACTICE GONE AND HAVE YOU NOTICED A BIG DIFFERENCE WITH THE NEW NOSE?: “I don’t think we’ve noticed anything with the new nose so far. I think the tire is a little different — it has more grip so it’s really hard to compare apples to apples anymore at this point.” WHAT HAPPENED WITH YOU AND MARK MARTIN AT THE END OF THE DAYTONA 500?: “We just never got the bumpers locked together. We kept bouncing off each other. Then when a couple guys got a run through the center there, it kind … Read entire article »
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Stewart and Phoenix Go Back A Long Way
By Jim Pedley Sporting News NASCAR Wire Service It’s pretty safe to say that few drivers enjoy racing at Phoenix International Raceway more than Tony Stewart. It’s even safer to say that there are not many drivers who have taken as many laps as Stewart at the dusty, quirky, desert track. And it is super safe to say that no driver wants to win Sunday’s Subway Fresh Fit 500 more than Stewart, because for all his love and longevity at PIR, he has not won a Sprint Cup race there since his first Sprint Cup race there. To some, Stewart is the face of PIR. A short-track legend out of Columbus, Ind., Stewart has raced—and raced well—about every kind of car imaginable at the 1-mile Phoenix … Read entire article »
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Ryan Newman Racing for Turner Motorsports at Phoenix
Turner Motorsports and Dollar General Racing have announced the addition of Ryan Newman to their 2011 all-star driver line-up. Newman is set to pilot the No. 30 Dollar General Chevrolet Impala in this weekend’s event at Phoenix International Raceway (PIR). In 62 NASCAR Nationwide Series (NNS) starts, the Sprint Cup Series star boasts seven wins, 17 top-five and 34 top-10 finishes. The man dubbed ‘rocket man’ has captured 12 pole awards and led a total of 1,491 laps. Newman has made one NNS start at PIR where he finished 36 after leading four laps. In 17 Sprint Cup Series events at the track, he is credited with one win (April, 2010) and four pole awards. Though he has only one NNS start at PIR, Newman has eight Nationwide Series starts at one-mile … Read entire article »
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Stewart Looking Forward to a Return to Normalcy at Phoenix
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., – From the hallowed grounds of Daytona (Fla.) International Speedway to the foot of Monument Hill, which way back in 1864 was the geographical starting point for what became the State of Arizona in 1912, Tony Stewart and his NASCAR Sprint Cup Series brethren are oh-so-ready to settle into a bit of racing normalcy. The season-opening Speedweeks at Daytona may offer stock car’s ultimate prize in the form of the Daytona 500’s Harley J. Earl Trophy, but it’s also nine solid days and nights of full-throttle activity on and off the racetrack that makes three-day events such as this weekend’s Subway Fresh Fit 500k at Phoenix International Raceway a breath of fresh air. For Stewart, driver of the No. 14 … Read entire article »
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